I think a lot of stores that say at a corporate level that they're testing ApplePay hadn't actually communicated that most of the employees. Most places I go no one has even heard of ApplePay.
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I think a lot of stores that say at a corporate level that they're testing ApplePay hadn't actually communicated that most of the employees. Most places I go no one has even heard of ApplePay.
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Google is forced to update wallet? Ummm no, wallet will work just fine where Apple pay works.
Promote, yes, but that's no bad thing. Google is getting an almost free ride from Apple here as retailers install NFC because of Apple Pay, Google Wallet customers also benefit.
Alas, that issue isn't limited to the US; one of the supermarkets here has NFC terminals that say "swipe or present card" at first... then change to just "swipe card" when you try to use NFC. Meanwhile the same supermarket in Australia accepts NFC with my NZ-issued card.
Apple pay actually works at the Whataburger drive thru near me in Schertz,TX, which is a suburb of San Antonio. I've successfully used it a dozen times in the past couple of months and most recently did it yesterday. I rarely go inside but did try it at one of the registers inside a month ago and it didn't fully work. It recognized the NFC coming from the phone because my credit card photo was showing on my iPhone screen but it wouldn't push through. Since then I have continued to use it in the drive thru and it works every time. Another place where Apple pay worked for me that is not an official merchant is Home Depot.
Canada has NFC payments everywhere and I've never seen anybody pay with a phone. Finally with ApplePay, that will change! Come on Apple... get it working here in Canada already.
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I use it everyday at my job.
Love I can use Apple Pay, even when Im on a phone call
Talking on your phone while checking out at a store is rather rude, no?
I meant to stay competative, I wasn't trying to have a go at Google.
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In the UK our cards have NFC payments built in. Tap to pay and no pin. But there's a £20 limit for security reasons and the hardware on London busses that accepts these cards is hit and miss. Normally takes me about 6 attempts.
By the time my contract expires, Apple Pay should have launched over here
Retailers and merchants may be dragging their heels because of contractual obligations or competitive factors, but I think eventually, you'll see ApplePay/NFC become widely accepted. Just a matter of when. 
Apple Pay's unavailability in the UK (and the rest of the world) isn't a problem with the payment networks. It has been reported many times that a card issued by a US bank can be loaded into Passbook, and used outside the US at merchants that support NFC payments.
It's the tokenization used by Apple Pay. Even though it is a standard published by the major card company consortium (EMV), the implementation is currently limited to US banks. Until an issuing bank makes the changes to their backend systems to issue the token used by Apple Pay, and then map the token to the actual account number on authorization and reconciliation, Apple Pay will be unsupported on their cards.
Apple had been working on this with US banks for most of 2014. Financial institutions move very slowly, especially on things like this. Satisfying the auditors and the regulators is a long and tedious process.
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Canada has NFC payments everywhere and I've never seen anybody pay with a phone. Finally with ApplePay, that will change! Come on Apple... get it working here in Canada already.
Talk to your bank. Apple can't do anything to "get it working" without their cooperation.
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I've tried to use Apple Pay several times at a Whataburger near me. But, it has always been inside.
Like you said: it doesn't fully work. The prompt for my thumbprint pops on on my phone, and it accepts it. But, the authorization fails. And swiping the exact same credit card works fine.
I've had similar experiences at Whole Foods, and at vending machines in the D/FW airport. So, I'm guessing there is something not quite right in their implementation, and the authorization request is missing something.
Yeah. It's strange though how it always works flawlessly in the Whataburger drivethru for me everytime. The first few times that I did it, the employee was amazed and didn't realize it was possible. Now I think they are all aware of it at that location.