With the integration of meal vouchers into Payconiq, payment is becoming even easier than using paper vouchers, which you to remember to remove from pockets before doing laundry. (Photo: Shutterstock)

With the integration of meal vouchers into Payconiq, payment is becoming even easier than using paper vouchers, which you to remember to remove from pockets before doing laundry. (Photo: Shutterstock)

In Belgium, Payconiq users can now load their cheque-repas onto the app--Luxembourg should soon follow suit.

When it comes to lunch vouchers, people until now could choose between traditional paper vouchers-- used in restaurants, supermarkets, and sometimes in other more surprising places, such as petrol stations--and “credit" cards that employees could use to pay for their meals.

From now on, it will be possible to pay for meals with Payconiq, using their "meal voucher" credit. The initiative was launched in Belgium, after an agreement with the largest suppliers of the vouchers, Sodexo, Edenred and Monizze.

The two million employees in Belgium who receive meal vouchers as a tax-free benefit will be able to add them as a means of payment to the Payconiq by Bancontact application and use them like any other digital payment method or via QR code.

Luxembourg is expected to follow soon. Payconiq has 150,000 active customers in the grand duchy and carries out around 600,000 transactions per month.

This story was first published in French on . It has been translated and edited for Delano.