Cashback for purchases via DBS PayLah app at hawker stalls, heartland shops returns from July 12

A customer uses PayLah! to scan and pay for his meal at a hawker stall. PHOTO: DBS

Ian Cheng

UPDATED Jun 29, 2025, 12:00 PM

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SINGAPORE - Singaporeans and residents can enjoy cashback when they spend at hawker stalls and heartland shops using DBS Paylah app every Saturday from July 12 to Sept 27.

The first 160,000 people who scan and pay with PayLah at over 22,000 participating hawker stalls, wet markets and heartland shops from 8am during this period can receive up to $3 cashback.

The move is part of the DBS/POSB’s latest slew of benefits to bolster customer savings and commemorate Singapore’s 60th birthday, it said in a statement on June 29.

Participating heartland shops and wet market stalls will display the “POSB Support Our Heartland Shops” wobbler .

Hawker stalls will display the PayLah Scan to Pay sticker and have to be SGQR code-enabled.

The move is part of the DBS/POSB’s latest slew of benefits to bolster customer savings and commemorate Singapore’s 60th birthday, it said in a statement on June 29. PHOTO: DBS

Over the next three months, the bank will offer some two million cashback rewards that Singaporeans and residents can redeem for their purchases in the heartlands via DBS PayLah.

In addition, POSB debit and credit cardmembers can enjoy new $0.60 and $6 meal deals at participating food and beverage outlets.

Today, over 70 per cent of payments made via PayLah Scan to Pay are for food and groceries from heartland shops and hawker stalls, said the bank, adding that among those who redeemed the cashback rewards, 39 per cent were senior citizens and/or earning less than $2,500 a month.

Participating hawkers, wet market stallholders and heartland merchants also saw their weekend earnings increase by about 40 per cent via PayLah transactions.

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