03.09.2026.
Citizens and businesses continued to show growing interest in the services of the NBS IPS payment system in Q2 2026, resulting in a further increase in the use of instant payments. In Q2 2026, a total of 34.5 million transactions were processed through this system, up 30.7% compared with Q2 of the previous year and 2.6 times more than five years earlier. At the same time, the total value of payments processed through the NBS IPS payment system in Q2 2026 amounted to RSD 442.0 billion, representing an increase of 32.3% compared with the same period of the previous year. The value was also 3.5 times higher than in Q2 2022.
During Q2 2026, the average transaction value was RSD 12,825, while the average daily number of payments was 378,672 or 89,000 more than in the same quarter of 2025. The daily record for the number of payments processed in the NBS IPS system during Q2 this year was broken for the first time on 9 April and then again on 15 May, when the highest number of instant payments to date – 609,155 – was seen.
Payments through the NBS IPS system are available at numerous points of sale across Serbia. Merchants offering instant payment options include the Mercator S retail chain, i.e. Idea, Roda and Mercator stores; NIS Petrol, Gazprom and OMV petrol stations; Laguna and Vulkan bookstores; Tehnomanija and Tehnomedia electronics stores; Metalac market, a household goods retailer; and the Lilly chain of pharmacies and drugstores. Instant payments are also supported on the Ananas.rs e-commerce platform, as well as at many other physical and online points of sale, enabling fast and easy payments without the use of cards or cash.
On the eGovernment – ePayments portal (euprava.gov.rs), users can make instant payment of fees and charges for the services provided by the Ministry of the Interior and the Tax Administration by scanning the NBS IPS QR code displayed on the single payment slip generated through the portal.
Particular attention should be drawn to the “Prenesi” service (Transfer), which offers users the convenience of simply transferring funds from one account to another using the recipient’s mobile phone number, provided that the recipient has registered the number with their bank for this service. The list of banks providing this service is available on the Instant Payments Serbia website, under the Service Overview section. Registration for the service is very simple and can be completed quickly within the mobile banking application itself. More information about registration and other benefits is available in the NBS’s “Good to Know” section – the “Prenesi” service.
We would also like to remind citizens that accurate and timely information about instant payments and their benefits as the most modern and fastest form of payment is available on the IPS website – IPS (Instant Payments Serbia), at https://ips.nbs.rs/.
A graphical overview of data relating to the provision of payment services and the issuance of electronic money for Q2 2026 is available on the NBS website, Payment System Statistics section.
Payment System Department
