Apple Planning November Launch of Apple Pay in Canada

[elvisimprsntr]

Paying in cash allows US businesses to hide income from the IRS due to the unfair business tax rates. More common than you think.

Update: I tried to use ApplePay at Home Depot yesterday. It seems HD replaced their POS terminal and card readers. Now contactless payments are no longer accepted even though the NFC symbol appears and attempts to process the transaction. Bastards!

 

[mrcobra92]

Update: I tried to use ApplePay at Home Depot yesterday. It seems HD replaced their POS terminal and card readers. Now contactless payments are no longer accepted even though the NFC symbol appears and attempts to process the transaction. Bastards!

Did you try Visa or MasterCard?

 

[elvisimprsntr]

Did you try Visa or MasterCard?

I tried my AMEX and VISA at HD, both of which worked previously.

 

[iFanaddic]

Sorry to revive this old thread but does the fact that Apple announced a release only for the UK at WWDC kill our hope for the release of Apple Pay in Canada? Or can still hope to have it announced along with iPhones 6S in September? For a release in November..?

 

[iFanaddic]

Sorry to revive this old thread but does the fact that Apple announced a release only for the UK at WWDC kill our hope for a November launch? Or can still hope to have it announced along with iPhones 6S in September? For a release in November..? (They did announce it for next month in the UK, so I guess 2 months well enough to announce and release..)

 

[Anjeo]

I was in Toronto last week and apple pay worked just fine, several merchants IE: Jimmy's Coffee and Steamwhisle Brewery hadn't experienced a transaction yet and were pleasantly surprised to see it go through.

 

[BruiserB]

I was in Toronto last week and apple pay worked just fine, several merchants IE: Jimmy's Coffee and Steamwhisle Brewery hadn't experienced a transaction yet and were pleasantly surprised to see it go through.

That's been happening since day 1. Once your cards are supported by your bank and loaded into ApplePay, they will work at NFC terminals worldwide.

 

[Anjeo]

That's been happening since day 1. Once your cards are supported by your bank and loaded into ApplePay, they will work at NFC terminals worldwide.

I wish it was that simple - the merchant may have an NFC terminal yet not accept Apple pay - The reason I posted was that these two vendors had never actually done a transaction using AP and were quite happy to learn they could.

 

[BruiserB]

I wish it was that simple - the merchant may have an NFC terminal yet not accept Apple pay - The reason I posted was that these two vendors had never actually done a transaction using AP and were quite happy to learn they could.

Just because they didn't know they could accept it doesn't mean they couldn't accept it since it was introduced. By and large it works at NFC terminals worldwide. The most notable exceptions were CurrentC merchants in the U.S. who disabled ApplePay.

 

[john991]

Sorry to revive this old thread but does the fact that Apple announced a release only for the UK at WWDC kill our hope for a November launch? Or can still hope to have it announced along with iPhones 6S in September? For a release in November..? (They did announce it for next month in the UK, so I guess 2 months well enough to announce and release..)

Hopefully they do after the 6s is announced. The holdup is the Canadian banks not wanting to give up any profit they make. And still negotiating with the banks.