Terms and Conditions

The AfterPay Consumer Terms & Conditions contain Terms & Conditions for all AfterPay Payment Options.

  • AfterPay Invoice Options
    • 14-day Invoice
    • Campaign Invoice
    • Consolidated Invoice
  • AfterPay Part Payment Options
    • Fix Installments
    • Flex Payment
  • AfterPay Direct Debit

I AfterPay - 14 Day Invoice

Together with the merchant, AfterPay (Arvato Payment Solutions GmbH, Gütersloher Str. 123, DE-33415 Verl) offers you to complete purchase AfterPay Invoice Options. To be able to pay with AfterPay you have to be at least 18 years old. At the time of purchase, AfterPay carries out risk and fraud checks. If you are not able to pay by invoice, you may choose another payment option available in the checkout.

What does that mean to you?

  • You first receive the goods and pay afterwards
  • You do not need to provide any account details in the checkout
  • You have 14 or more days to pay. You simply transfer the open amount to AfterPay

1. Payment

If you choose to pay by using AfterPay open invoice, AfterPay takes over the entire processing of your invoice purchase. We already inform you here that we transfer the claim arising from your purchase to AfterPay. Therefore you will receive an invoice from AfterPay for your purchases by e-mail and your payment has to be made to an account of AfterPay.

2. Costs

The purchase on open invoice, we offer you along with AfterPay free of charge.

AfterPays 14 day invoice grants you from receipt of the goods 14 days to pay your order. If you do not pay the order within these 14 days, you will be in default of payment.

If your payment is over due, all claims are immediately due for payment. Furthermore, we or our partner are entitled to charge you the default interest in the statutory amount, for the second and each further reminder a reminder fee in the amount of EUR 2.50, whereby the proof is permitted that us or our partner has suffered a significantly lower damage. We or our partner reserve the right to prove that the processing of the respective reminder or handover to a collection agency has caused greater damage. In case of an overdue payment, you undertake to reimburse all costs and expenses. The costs of debt recovery include, without prejudice to a procedural cost compensation, also all out of court costs of a licensed collection agency and a lawyer.

II AfterPay - Direct Debit Payments

You want to pay easily and comfortably by direct debit? AfterPay (Arvato Payment Solutions GmbH, Gütersloher Str. 123, DE-33415 Verl). gladly offers you this service with our partnering merchant. To be able to pay with AfterPay you have to be at least 18 years old.

What does that mean for you?

  • You receive the goods and we withdraw the open amount from your account
  • You do not have to worry about the transfer
  • In case of a return AfterPay refunds you immediately the returned amount

If you choose to pay by using AfterPay direct debit, AfterPay takes over the whole processing of your purchase by AfterPay direct debit. We already inform you here that we transfer the claim arising from your purchase to AfterPay. Therefore, you will receive payment details from AfterPay for your purchases by e-mail and the collection will be made to an account of AfterPay.

1. SEPA mandate

The purchase amount is due immediately. By using AfterPay direct debit you granted AfterPay a SEPA direct debit mandate. According to the information provided in the mandate, AfterPay withdraws the amount from your bank account. By issuing the mandate you also instruct your bank to redeem the direct debit. You also confirm to us and AfterPay that you are authorized a withdraw on the specified account. Please ensure sufficient funds on the specified account. You can claim a chargeback of the amount withdrawn from your bank account within eight weeks from the collection date("Rüchlastschrift"). However, we would like to point out to you that also in case of a chargeback the claim is still due and must be compensated immediately.

2. Costs

The purchase by direct debit, we offer you along with AfterPay free of charge.

If your account does not have sufficient funds, has been extinguished or you object to the collection without justification, a return debit note will be issued. This return debit is associated with a considerable effort for us and our partner. You undertake to assume the costs incurred and authorize our partner to make a new submission of the direct debit.

Should the new collection fail, all claims are immediately due for payment. Furthermore, we or our partner are entitled to charge you the default interest in the statutory amount, for the second and each further reminder a reminder fee in the amount of EUR 2.50, whereby the proof is permitted that us or our partner has suffered a significantly lower damage. We or our partner reserve the right to prove that the processing of the respective reminder or handover to a collection agency has caused greater damage. In case of an overdue payment, you undertake to reimburse all costs and expenses. The costs of debt recovery include, without prejudice to a procedural cost compensation, also all out of court costs of a licensed collection agency and a lawyer.

3. Refunds

In the case of returns or a withdrawal from the purchase contract, we ask you not to withdraw the direct debit mandate in order to avoid unnecessary costs. You will be immediately credited the appropriate amount.

III Complaints

Complaints regarding the processing of payments can be made in written form by mail under the subject "Beschwerden" to Arvato Payment Solutions GmbH, Gütersloher Str. 123, D-33415 Verl.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the arbitration board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The complaint is to be addressed:

Deutsche Bundesbank
Schlichtungsstelle
Postfach 11 12 32
60047 Frankfurt a. M.

The complaint shall be made in written form, including a brief summary of the facts and accompanied by the documents necessary for the complaint to be processes. For more details, please refer to the complaint regulations published on the website of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

IV Personal data

The protection of your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. AfterPay processes personal data in order to confirm your identity, assess on which payment option to offer you, administrate the customer relationship, to prevent abuse or misuse of AfterPay, to conduct customer and risk analysis and risk management, for the prevention of money laundering, and to comply with general legal requirements. Personal data is information that can be directly or indirectly linked to you.

Below are examples of personal data that AfterPay may process:

  1. Contact information – name, address, date of birth, Social security number. email address, telephone number, etc.
  2. Payment information – invoice information, bank account number etc.
  3. Financial information – your income, potential credit commitments, negative payment history
  4. Information on goods/services – details about the items you purchase
  5. Historical information – your purchase, payment and credit acceptance history

We reuse the data you previously provided to us and we may share your information with credit reference agencies and providers of identity lookups and anti-money laundering screening companies for the purpose of assessing your credit score and risk assessment upon applying for one of our payment methods, and for confirming your identity and address information.

If you have used AfterPay´s services previously, there might be information stored about you, e.g. for customer administration, documentation requirements or similar approved purposes. Where available AfterPay will use such information to confirm your identity and simplify your use of AfterPay. AfterPay may use electronic communication (through for example text messages and e-mail) in contacts with you. You are entitled to request access to data, edit incorrect data relating to you or inform us that you no longer wish to have your personal data stored. The request shall be sent to datenschutz@afterpay.de.

Data may also be provided to the merchant from which you made your purchase (for administrative purposes) and to authorities and other governing bodies if AfterPay is legally required to do so. AfterPay may also share your personal data with other companies within the Arvato Financial Solutions group. AfterPay is the data controller for the processing of your personal data. Please see AfterPay´s Privacy Statement for AfterPay´s full description of AfterPay´s processing of personal data.

V Cookies

AfterPay uses cookies. Cookies are small files that are temporarily placed on your hard drive. They are used only to obtain information on the use of AfterPay’s websites. This makes it possible to recognize your computer automatically the next time you view AfterPay’s websites. However, cookies contain no personal data, so the protection of your private sphere is ensured. Depending on your settings, your Internet browser may automatically accept cookies. However, you may also change your browser settings at any time and use AfterPay’s websites without cookies, the usability of those might then be limited.