The future of payments is facing monumental changes due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Where in the past, businesses were more cautious about implementing contactless features to receive payment from customers, now many are realizing that not adopting contactless could mean the end of their existence. Days of simply swiping credit cards could become a thing of the past as new...
Apple Pay is nearing another milestone– it is on track to process 10 billion transactions by the end of 2019. Getting a lift from transit systems that are embracing digital wallets and the increase of merchants using contactless payments, Apple Pay saw another quarter of record volume, the company chief executive, Tim Cook, announced recently. Though it is unclear how...
More than 43% of global iPhone users have enabled Apple Pay, according to estimates from the venture capital firm, Loup Ventures LLC. This means that Apple Pay adoption reached 43% of iPhone users. What’s Driving the Boom? Since its launch in 2014, Apple Pay has continued to gain support from retailers and iPhone users. The Minneapolis-based venture firm based its...
According to a report from SimilarTech, a Web analytics firm, Apple Pay on the Web has become quite popular. SimilarTech’s platform tracks more than 30 million web pages per month and shows that Apple Pay has turned into the 5th most popular payment platform used by eCommerce websites ranked in the top 10.000. It is the 5th most widely-used payment...
Hackers have found a new target and victim: Apple Pay. The ever-popular new payment app is now the victim of a hacking, but it wasn’t a full-blown hacking as we have seen with various retailers. This hacking was a soft hacking, which some industry experts see as a possible test run for something bigger down the road. Due to this...
Studies have shown that those who pay with Apple Pay are more likely to return to the same store again in the future. Perhaps it is because they genuinely like the store, but it is even more plausible that it is because they are able to use Apply Pay. While it gets a lot of press, like Bitcoin, many merchants...
With Apple Pay’s launch earlier in October 2014, the mobile payments industry received a flurry of attention. Continuing to go wireless and paperless, the mobile payments method is catching on with many merchants and customers. Interestingly, when Apple Pay joined the market they did not introduce any revolutionary payment system to the market, rather they seemed to find themselves in...
It’s been a few months since Apple announced its release of Apple Pay, a mobile wallet available on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. But mobile wallets have been around for a few years, and Americans have been very slow to adopt them. So why are so many mobile payment processing officials excited about the future of Apple Pay...
Every time you log into the Internet there seems to be another company trying to squeeze into the mobile payment market. ApplePay says they have created a way for consumers to pay with the iPhone6 that it virtually fraud proof. This is a great idea and it may work – if your customers are purchasing via an iPhone6, and your...
Apple Pay has gotten a lot of press lately. The new payment platform by Apple, allows for consumers to pay for products just by holding their phone up to a merchant terminal and clicking ok. Equipped with an intuitive interface and the ability to be used with multiple devices (Apple Pay is available on iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and iWatch)...
