Sunday, 7 May 2017

Apple to continue working to improve Apple Pay

Apple's payment platform continues to function just as the company expects it to. Apple Pay provides the company with some really interesting revenue, receiving 0.15% of each transaction made by the system worldwide. If we consider that the service last year increased its volume of transactions by 500%, then we find a significant reason to continue developing Apple's commitment to mobile payments.

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Therefore, the company is already working on implementing new functionalities for a payment method that works really well. And if at first the offensive of Apple Pay was directed to end with the payment with traditional card, and a little against the means of payment online like PayPal, now Apple will direct all his attention to attack the latter. To this end, it is studying the possibility of making payments between users of the service.

Apple Pay could integrate payments between users this year

Apple Pay in use on an iPhone

That is, Apple would plan to integrate into Apple Pay, among other features, a complete peer-to-peer transfer system that would compete directly with other alternatives such as PayPal, or Verse, among many other examples. This would be released in the October event of the iPhone, and could be called "Apple Cash" according to information provided by Recode. To launch this service, the company would have reached agreements with various US financial institutions.

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One of the new features of this service would be to offer a prepaid card in association with Visa fully linked to the service account, so that we can use the money we receive in our account as soon as we receive it, both through Apple Pay , As with physical means. All this, to make iOS users continue to be interested in Apple's payment system, which really deserves the praise it has received throughout its nearly three years of activity.

Find out how to know which merchants accept Apple Pay

As we informed you, since last December, Apple users who own a card from Banco Santander, AMEX or Carrefour Pass can configure their iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch to pay with Apple Pay in Spain. If already in Spain we have two years of lag with respect to the launch of Apple Pay, to that must be added what it is costing to permeate in the shops and still few are those who have implemented this method of payment, something surprising given the Furor that are causing stickers, payment apps or virtual payment platforms in general.

It is not the first time that someone is going with a "revolutionary" payment system in the mobile and is with the unpleasant surprise that in that establishment is not yet accepted as payment method. So, to avoid annoyances, we'll show you a trick to know for sure if a trade supports Apple Pay as a payment method or not, using the native Apple Maps app.

Apple Pay arrives in Spain.

How to know which shops accept Apple Pay with Maps

The way to find out if an establishment allows to pay with Apple Pay is quite simple and fast.

1) First we will go to the Maps app, either on our iPhone, iPad or from a Mac.

2) Next, we will look for the name of the trade from which we want to know its availability of Apple Pay. Remember that by default Maps shows us the nearest shops, so if we are in Pamplona and look for the English Court for example, the most logical and normal is to show us the location if there was - there is - And not that of Madrid.

Apple Pay Shops

Also we have to take into account that Apple Pay in Spain has not yet been implemented in just establishments, so for our example we will have to look for a big trade like Carrefour, El corte ingles or our example: an Apple Store.

3) What is the secret of all this? That Apple is updating the information of its Maps as the establishments implement Apple Pay as payment method. Click on the icon of the trade or about the i, which will return the information relating to the trade itself: your name, address and contact details, schedule and comments, we will find if you support Apple Pay as payment.
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