ShopKeep Updates iPad App with Apple Pay Support

[MacRumors]

Point-of-sale manufacturer ShopKeep today updated its official iPad app with support for Apple Pay, now allowing customers to pay with their iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus. Merchants can accept Apple Pay payments if they have a ShopKeep terminal and an Ingenico iCMP Bluetooth Credit Card reader, which sells for $249 and also supports mangetic swipe and contactless payments. The reader will also be able to support EMV chip card payments in the future.

What's New in Version 2.5.2

Introducing support for Apple Pay.

ShopKeep has partnered with Ingenico, the global leader in secure electronic transactions, to integrate support for the iCMP card reader. This reader allows merchants to accept various forms of credit card payments, including magnetic swipe and contactless. This reader also supports chip card (EMV) capabilities, and support in the app will be available early next year ahead of the liability transition deadline.

ShopKeep's move to accept Apple Pay comes a few weeks after payment processing service Square announced that it would be supporting Apple Pay at some point in 2015. Square would have to release all new hardware with built-in NFC connectivity to support Apple Pay, as its current reader is not able to accept the payment method.

iCMP's Apple Pay capable Bluetooth reader for ShopKeep POS systems ​

ShopKeep is a free app for the iPad and can be downloaded through the App Store. [Direct Link]

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[joshwenke]

What Apple really needs to do is build the NFC into their iPad, then shop owners implement iPads as their cash registers, then profit!

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

So now, the corner store can take :Appleay, and Walmart won't.

Nice!

 

[Aluminum213]

What Apple really needs to do is build the NFC into their iPad, then shop owners implement iPads as their cash registers, then profit!

That's why they left that feature for the iPad Air 3


Also, paying is snappier with this update

 

[2457282]

I am not familiar with shopkeep. Don't think I have encountered it like I do square. Still I think this continued acceptance of Apple pay on different platforms can only help. So I see this as a good thing for Apple pay and probably a bad thing for CurrentC.

 

[b0nd18t]

Just about to launch Shopkeep for my business. They are giving away the new reader for free currently. Not available until next month though.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Very nice. And they're ready for Chip & PIN too with this.

Though it's one more thing to keep charged. I like Revel's solution of a hard wired Ingenico PIN pad, since most of these setups are hardwired anyway.

 

[crjackson2134]

Just about to launch Shopkeep for my business. They are giving away the new reader for free currently. Not available until next month though.

I thought there was a teardown review of the iPad Air 2 that showed it actually included the NFC hardware. Did I dream that or something?

 

[iJandro]

This is awesome, but do you know what I've realized is the most awkward feeling ever? When Apple Pay doesn't work, it totally makes me look like a wizard waving a wand around at nothing XD

 

[dontwalkhand]

I thought there was a teardown review of the iPad Air 2 that showed it actually included the NFC hardware. Did I dream that or something?

That NFC Hardware is not "PCI compliant" for accepting payment. It is only used to make Apple Pay purchases online, because it contains the secure element chip. Payment ACCEPTING equipment must be approved, and Ingenico and Verifones equipment are.

 

[crjackson2134]

That NFC Hardware is not "PCI compliant" for accepting payment. It is only used to make Apple Pay purchases online, because it contains the secure element chip. Payment ACCEPTING equipment must be approved, and Ingenico and Verifones equipment are.

Thanks for that clarification, I didn't realize it's complicated. Well, Square works well for me anyway