Cambodia's official Bakong Tourists manual: KHQR, verification and payment boundaries for Dara Sakor travel

Source type：National Bank of Cambodia official payment manual · Evidence level：A

Source：National Bank of Cambodia - Bakong
Source published：No publication date stated · Last checked：2026-08-02

Original summary

The Bakong website still linked a 33-page Bakong Tourists v1.1 manual on 2 August 2026. A full table-of-contents and page review shows email registration, a recovery code, passport-and-selfie verification, sending and receiving, KHQR scanning, riel-dollar exchange, deposit to bank accounts, transaction history and receipts. The manual also says full verification raises daily transfer and withdrawal limits.

Payment flows repeatedly ask the user to inspect the amount and recipient account before confirmation, and warn when a recipient is not fully verified. For a Dara Sakor visitor, the reusable method is not a claim that every merchant accepts KHQR; it is a check of currency, amount, recipient name, verification status, fee, transaction state and receipt. The actual hotel, driver, course, vessel or merchant must confirm acceptance for that transaction.

The PDF body states no formal publication date. File metadata says created and modified on 2 August 2024, which is only a version clue. App functions, eligibility, limits, funding or withdrawal channels, exchange rate, fees, refunds and foreign-card support can change. The system requests no passport image, selfie, password, OTP, recovery code, card detail or original payment record and handles no funds.

Useful takeaways

• The official tourist manual covers dual-currency KHQR, verification, transaction history and receipt checks.
• A manual does not prove every Dara Sakor merchant currently accepts KHQR or the same funding route.
• Recovery codes, OTPs, passports and card details stay inside the user's official flow, never with the one-map system or an intermediary.

Editorial assessment

This page turns the official manual into a searchable operational summary and risk checklist without mirroring its 33 pages or screenshots. Because payment is time-sensitive and high risk, it does not register, verify, fund, scan, exchange or seek refunds for a user and stores no identity or payment secret.

Freshness and limits

The PDF body has no publication date; metadata is dated 2 August 2024 and the website link was checked on 2 August 2026. Current functions, limits, supported countries, funding routes, rates and fees must be checked in the latest app, terms and actual financial institution response.

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