The Russian online trading platform Wildberries introduced a commission of 3% of the purchase price for paying for goods with Visa and Mastercard cards from October 9 [both international payment systems suspended their work in Russia in spring 2022 - note of www1.ru editorial office].
The information was confirmed by the marketplace. According to a representative of Wildberries, the commission is intended for the bank, which processes the payment. Such conditions are related to the specificities of the operational and technological process of accepting payments from Visa and Mastercard cards, he concluded.
As Vedomosti writes, Wildberries can't directly process these operations. The experts of the publication pointed out that calculations by cards of these two systems are carried out through the National Payment Card System, that is, within Russia, and do not differ from transactions with Mir cards. They do not rule out that the platform is simply trying to shift the costs of acquiring [technology of non-cash payment acceptance - www1.ru editorial note] to users.