Cashless payments are made using cards or electronic methods rather than physical money.
The school café uses a cashless system.
cashless in British English
(ˈkæʃlɪs)
adjective
functioning, operated, or performed without using coins or banknotes for money transactions but instead using credit cards or electronic transfer of funds
cashless shopping
cashless in American English
(ˈkæʃlɪs)
adjective
designating or of financial transactions handled as by means of credit cards, bank transfers, and checks, with no money handed from person to person
some say we are headed toward a cashless society
Examples of 'cashless' in a sentence
cashless
Britain is well on the way to becoming a cashless society.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Banks say we are increasingly moving towards a cashless society but the fact is the smaller the business, the more expensive it is to process card transactions.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is, thus, more of an attempt to shock some corruption and crime out of the system than going cashless.