The COVID-19 pandemic extensively affects the world, particularly consumer payment patterns. Since, the lack of physical contact during the COVID-19 pandemic era, consumers' need for a substitute spending pattern has increased. People are required to utilize debit cards, credit cards, internet banking, and other mobile banking services as an alternative to physical transactions when they buy products online and make virtual payments. 2019 is known as a pre-pandemic period, therefore the study intends to scrutinize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of digital payment methods in Bangladesh. This paper has focused to analyze the average amounts of transactions of each payment method that occurred during the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic eras (2019-2021). The result of the study confirmed an insignificant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of digital payment methods in Bangladesh.
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