Rappi will launch its cash payment service in Argentina

Rappi, the Colombian company that manages the shipping of various products via
rappitenderos by bike continues its expansion in Argentina and, starting next month, will offer its service called Rappicash.

According to the company's website, this service allows you to make cash deliveries to any destination. "We realized that our users and ourselves had a need, because sometimes we run out of money and do not get a card or we can not go to an ATM for the time it takes," say they, and they say it would be a kind of "cashier in your hand".

The process would be as follows: the user pays with his credit card the tickets that a deliveryman will take. The company seeks to retain customers because it does not make any profit because there is no restaurant or supermarket to charge a commission. The cost of shipping, which would be about $ 40 for all orders, is at the expense of the deliveryman.

According to Rappi's general manager, Matías Casoy, there are no regulatory obstacles that could affect this service, which he does not consider to be financial, because it is a disruptive service, but ultimately it is a person who Address to the cashier for you, "he explained during a dialogue. with the newspaper
The chronicler.

But the company has a fintech branch with Rappypay, which works just a month ago in the country and allows you to pay via the Rappi app with the scanning of a QR code in n & # 39; any trade respected.

According to Casoy, Rappi's business figure in the country rose to $ 30 million in 2018 and this year it is thought to quintuple with an increased presence in the country's interior.