
Peru · Mobile wallet
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Pay Yape codes without a Peruvian bank
Yes. Moreta Pay lets visitors pay Yape codes in Peru without a Peruvian bank account. Add money from the bank or card you already have, scan the Yape code at the counter and slide to pay in Peruvian sol. The merchant is paid the same way as when a local scans it.

The network
What is Yape?
Yape is the payment app of Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP), and one of the most used ways to pay in Peru. People send money to a phone number or pay by scanning a Yape QR code, from shops to street stalls.
- Country
Peru
- Currency
- Peruvian sol (PEN)
- Type
- Mobile wallet
- Run by
- BCP
- How locals pay
- They open the Yape app and scan the code
- With Moreta
- Pay it from your Moreta balance

How to spot it
The purple Yape logo on the QR code at the counter, often beside a Plin code.
Can tourists pay Yape?
Yape is built for people who live in Peru: signing up takes local ID or a local bank account, and usually a Peruvian phone number. A card from home can’t pay the code on the counter, and opening a local account takes paperwork a visit rarely leaves time for.
Moreta closes that gap. It pays the Yape code itself, from a balance you top up with your own bank, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, and converts at the live rate at the moment you pay. One flat fee, shown before you slide to pay.
Card or cash
- A foreign transaction fee on most cards
- Your bank's rate, or the terminal's worse one
- ATM fees from your bank and the operator
- Leftover Peruvian sol to change back
Moreta
- One flat fee, shown before you slide to pay
- The live rate at the moment you pay
- No ATM and no card to hand over
- What you do not spend stays for the next country
How to pay a Yape code
Set Moreta up once, at home or on the plane. After that, paying a Yape code in Peru is a scan and a slide.
Costs, limits and tips
Paying in Peru
- Transaction fee
- 1.5%per payment, at the live rateEvery fee
- Exchange rate today
- 3.29PENfor 1 USDLive rate, updated recentlyCompare rates
- Max payment
- 10,000PENabout 3,040 USD
- Weekly limit
- 20,000PENabout 6,080 USD
The app always shows the live rate and the exact cost before you pay.
Guide updated
Local tips
- Look for the Yape or Plin mark. At markets the code is often a laminated card by the scales.
- Carry small sol notes for combis, remote villages and trails where there is no signal.
- Altitude towns can have slow data, so top up the wallet in Lima or Cusco first.
Yape questions
What visitors ask before paying Yape in Peru.
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