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LINE Pay

LINE Pay is a versatile payment service introduced worldwide by Line on December 16, 2014. LINE Pay enables users to request and send money to contacts, and make mobile payments at various retail stores. With a user base of 41 million local digital wallet users, LINE Pay stands out as the sole domestic wallet in Japan that readily accepts payments from overseas merchants.

Properties

The properties of the LINE Pay payment method are shown in the following table:

Payment type

Wallet

Funding source

Wallet balance

Acquirer

AlipaySG, AlipayUS, AlipayEU, AlipayUK

Acquiring region

SG, AU, US, EU, UK

Payment flow

Redirect

Checkout Payment

✔️

Buyer country/region

Japan

Auto Debit

Fund deducted

Real-time

Refund

✔️

Processing currency

JPY, USD

Partial refund

✔️

Minimum payment amount

1 JPY

Chargeback/Dispute

Maximum payment amount

KYC limits:

  • KYC-compliant buyers: 300,000 JPY per transaction/per day; 500,000 JPY per month
  • Non-KYC-compliant buyers: 100,000 JPY per month

Refund period

30 days

Note: Wallet may change the transaction limit according to internal reasons such as risk policy.

User experience

The following screenshots show the journey of paying with LINE Pay in different scenarios.

Buyers need to install a LINE app on the phone to complete the payment.

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