Amazon has unveiled Dash Cart, a smart shopping trolley that automatically tracks the items shoppers place in their trolley as they shop — and then lets them simply exit the store when they have completed their shopping, with no need to visit a physical checkout. Dash Carts use “a combination of computer vision algorithms and […]
Amazon unveils self-checkout shopping trolleys Read More »
Diners in fast food restaurants and convenience stores equipped with Coca-Cola Freestyle dispensers can now use their mobile phone to select their preferred drink and instruct the machine to pour it for them, enabling a completely contact-free experience. More than 10,000 of the dispensers will be equipped to support the new service this summer, the
Coca-Cola lets consumers dispense drinks with their mobile phones Read More »
Travellers using the subway and selected bus services in the Italian city of Turin can now pay for their rides by tapping on and off public transportation using a Visa or Mastercard contactless card or their NFC phone. “In a few weeks the service will also be available for American Express credit card holders,” transportation
Turin rolls out contactless payments on bus and subway services Read More »
Supermarket giant Carrefour has become the first retailer in Europe to integrate its customer loyalty programme with Apple Pay, enabling shoppers both to pay for their purchases and collect loyalty points with a single tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch. “As of today, Carrefour customers can add their customer loyalty card to their Apple
Carrefour integrates its loyalty card with Apple Pay Read More »
Australia-based buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay is launching a service that lets US consumers make NFC payments in stores — and then pay for their purchases in four equal instalments. To use the service, consumers apply in advance for an Afterpay card that they can then add to their Apple Wallet to make payments
Afterpay lets US consumers pay by instalments with their NFC mobile phone Read More »
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Another of Italy’s major cities has launched open-loop fare collection, with Turin enabling customers to pay for rides on its one-line metro and certain bus routes by tapping their contactless EMV credit and debit cards, along with smartphones and smartwatches supporting NFC payments services. read more
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Canada’s third largest city, Calgary, has introduced its first electronic fare payments service, offering mobile ticketing from a software-as-a-service platform provider, with plans to enable customers to pay for fares with their contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets. Related stories, automatically selected: Cubic Expands Agreement
Calgary Transit Launches Mobile-Ticketing Service with Plans to Expand to Open Loop Read More »
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – As e-commerce continues to grow in importance as Covid-19 lockdowns ease, four major U.S. payments networks announced today they are laying the groundwork to expand their uniform e-commerce checkout platform internationally. Related stories, automatically selected: With E-Commerce Skyrocketing, Tokenized Transactions Expected to Soar, as Well In-Depth: Tokenization Figures
American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa have announced that “they are each beginning technical preparations for global expansion” of Click to Pay, the single buy button solution for online merchants based on the EMVCo Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) standard. Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United
Card networks begin global Click to Pay rollout Read More »
Apple is preparing to add support for both merchant-presented and consumer-presented QR mobile payments to Apple Pay later this year, a hidden feature in the second developer beta of iOS 14 suggests. Apple Pay support for merchant-presented QR codes was revealed during the launch of Apple’s NFC and QR code-based App Clips service at WWDC
Apple Pay to add support for QR mobile payments in iOS 14? Read More »
