Showing posts with label Mobile Payments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile Payments. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Google Wallet Now Allows Automatic Transfers


Google has released an update to its Wallet mobile app that allows automatic transfers to your bank account. Choose a debit card or bank account to link to your Google Wallet, which you can enable for automatic transfers. It’s nice to see Google update this app with more functionally. Mobile payments are the future (in my opinion) and there needs to be more options out there. What do you think of Google Wallet ? 


Monday, August 15, 2016

CVS Launches Its Own Mobile Payment System, CVS Pay


CVS has launched its own mobile payment solution. CVS Pay will show a barcode on the phone screen that the pharmacy can scan so you can make a purchase. As long as you have a credit or a debit card link to it, you’ll be good to go. You can also present the barcode to pick up prescriptions that you can refill and manage in the app. CVS Pay lives within the company's Pharmacy app. If you live in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, you either have to download the app or update it to start using the payment service. You'll still get access to the feature even if you don't live in any of those locations, though you might have to wait a few months, as it's not scheduled for a nationwide rollout until later in the year. What do you think of CVS having its own mobile payment solution ?


Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Is Apple Working On Mobile Person to Person Payment Service ?


The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is in talks with U.S. banks over a person to person mobile payments service. The service would be positioned as an expansion to Apple Pay, and it would allow people to send each other money, much like Square's Square Cash service. Apple is said to be speaking to Chase, Capital One, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Bank, but key details and the technical details still need to be worked out. A launch date for the service is unknown at this time, but Apple is rumored to be targeting to release this in 2016. As the world becomes more digital something like this just makes sense to me. How Apple executes will either make or break this. What do you think ? 

Monday, July 6, 2015

Apple Pay Coming To The UK On July 14th



Looks like Apple is planning to expand its Apple Pay mobile payments service in the United Kingdom on July 14th. Apple has begun enabling its sale systems in England based stores to take NFC payments and has been preparing materials to promote the Apple Pay launch in stores. Announced back in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference, the U.K.’s Apple Pay launch will mark Apple’s first expansion of the service outside of the United States. Like in the U.S., a PIN won’t be required for usage, but the launch will include a £20 cap per transaction, as also noted on the above memo sent to us and posted across the web. However, a source tells us that U.K. systems will be updated in the fall to process higher values. Apple is also currently working on bringing the service to Canada later this year as well as China and South Korea sometime soon. 


Thursday, February 26, 2015

Google Rumored To Lauch Android Pay In May


It appears that Google plans to launch Android Pay at its Google I/O conference in May, following its purchase of Softcard earlier this week. The new Android Pay solution, is set to take on Apple Pay as a revamp to Google’s ailing Google Wallet product that’s been around since 2011. Like Apple Pay, Android Pay will reportedly allow companies to add a mobile payments option to their app, to which users can upload credit card or debit card information, so that payments become single-tap transactions within the app. Google announced earlier this week that along with its Softcard acquisition, it has formed a partnership with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T for Google Wallet to be pre-installed on Android devices. 



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

You Can Now Use PayPal On Your Pebble Smartwatch

PayPal has announced that its payment service is now available for the Pebble smartwatch. The company said that owners can now pay for goods and services at select locations using their Pebble, linked to their PayPal account. Users can make PayPal payments using one of two methods: by checking into a store using the PayPal app or by providing the store with an auto generated payment code. Both ways require that the particular location support PayPal payments.