QRPh Part 1 - What is it, and why does it exist
Most, maybe all, countries in South East Asia have their own national QR code standard which is usually based on the EMV merchant-presented QR standard (for instance, Cambodia (1), Singapore (2) or Vietnam (3).
The Philippines, where the standard is called QRPh, is no exception. However, as far as I know, neither the QR code part nor the backend processing part of the QRPh standard are in the public domain.
But since the QR codes out there can be analyzed based on the EMV standard, and the backend processing can be inferred from press releases and other public sources, we know quite a bit about it.
In the next couple of posts on my blog, I will look at the QR code format, the user experience, the backend processing and the EMV underpinnings.