Unicredit is allmost everywhere in italy. Even someone that has no bank account at unicredit could simply open up a new account
"Majority ... won't be able to use" is something different. If you want it, you can get it.
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Apple Pay Officially Launches in Italy
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Unicredit is allmost everywhere in italy. Even someone that has no bank account at unicredit could simply open up a new account
"Majority ... won't be able to use" is something different. If you want it, you can get it.
Because French and U.K.-boon accounts are working like a charme on applepay in Germany. So it was worth a try.
Well sure, but who's going to open a new bank account just for Apple pay? Not the majority of people. You have your credit card and want to use it with Apple pay, you don't want to have another bank account just for paying. What you say is true in every country where Apple pay launched, if your bank is not supported you can open another account.
Anyway if you're willing to create a new account Boon seems more easy and quick to set up. I think I'll give it a try since is free for the first year, then I hope my bank will finally support it or I may renounce to AP since I'm not willing to pay for the service.
The boon service is officially launched in DE - but only on android afaik. I just downloaded boon from the French store, used my actual German address for signing, sent them a copy of my ID. Works a few months for me now, but I don't like the prepaid-thing
One can get normally verified like an EEA “citizen”. I've been using Boon in Slovenia for the last couple of months like many other people. I have the app from the French App Store, but used my actual address for signing up. So far, I've had a 100 percent success rate when paying.
Great to hear that. I actually opened account with KBC and i didn't even have to go to the bank. Now i have a decent bank account and 100% working Apple Pay.
Yeah it works as a prepaid debit card and they charge 1% of the amount when you transfer money via credit card, while bank transfer is free so I'd use that option.
I don't like the idea either, but for start using AP is my only option
Time goes by and they keep saying it will come in the next couple of months.
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From my experience when i tried to get verified to this day it's telling me my id is being verified. I'm EEA citizen.
But this time, they've at least made it public. I'm having my fingers crossed!
Speaking of Boon, I verified my ID and other documents with their customer support via email.
N26 will support ApplePay in Italy "later this year":
https://n26.com/n26-will-bring-apple-pay-to-italy-later-this-year/
Haha. Not really. I do think they have a point though. The NFC chip could be used for so many cool things if they would allow it. Like bus/train passes, tickets for shows, collecting points in the supermarket,... don't even need to allow banks to be able to add credit cards. Or is apple planing on cutting deals with every local public transport? This will take forever :-/
Write / Call boon support. They might "nudge" the verification process in the right direction / give it priority if the process is hanging for a couple of days.
The fact that N26 is mentioned to support Apple Pay "later this year" is a bigger hint to launch in Germany than any Apple Support Page update or so. This supports hints I'm hearing from german colleagues within several banks.
Germany is the biggest european economy. I don't think Apple would introduce it back door during a regular week. I can see them announce it during a keynote (like they did with France last year). The questions I'm quite interested in:
- Do they support the local GiroGo Card System (25% of transaction)
- Are all major banks on board (willingness of changing bank is pretty low)?
They cannot support N26 until ApplePay is available in Germany. The boon by Wirecard workaround is within a grey area. It also "cost" boon a lot of money. That's why N26 is waiting...
Germany is the biggest european economy. I don't think Apple would introduce it back door during a regular week. I can see them announce it during a keynote (like they did with France last year). The questions I'm quite interested in:
- Do they support the local GiroGo Card System (25% of transaction)
- Are all major banks on board (willingness of changing bank is pretty low)?
They cannot support N26 until ApplePay is available in Germany. The boon by Wirecard workaround is within a grey area. It also "cost" boon a lot of money. That's why N26 is waiting...
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No idea. They (N26) should launch it in France for example as well since ApplePay is available there for a while now...
As long as you are a EU citizen you have equal rights like a french person in France. No reason why you shouldn't be able to
Good point.
I use public transit a lot, but I have a season ticket so I don't need AP to pay for a ride like you can do in London on the tube. I wish I could use my Watch or iPhone to open the turnstile to take the subway, and that requires NFC to be opened to third party apps in some ways, unless, as you suggest, Apple makes a deal with each and every public transport company.
I think tickets and point in supermarket are a different use case, I already use wallet for tickets and you show a QR code, so as long as we can use this kind of technology NFC doesn't need to get involved. Same in supermarkets, you point the IR scanner to the display and it works.
But of course in the future some of this interaction may switch to NFC, for example you go to the cinema and there's a turstyle at the entrance allowing you to pass if you have already reserved your seat, the same could work on a stadium too.