University of Oklahoma Becomes First School to Accept Apple Pay Across Campus

[brinary001]

Sure would like this to come to The University of Missouri! *HINT HINT* Mizzou if there's any administrators on here!

 

[nepalisherpa]

Former Sooner...Boomer Sooner!

Heck yes! Same here! Boomer Sooner!

 

[StoneJack]

Well, Android users are screwed ) Thats a main thing

 

[rmaratos]

I'm pretty sure Carnegie Mellon got it before them, a few months ago.

 

[omgitscro]

Carnegie Mellon University has had nearly 100% saturation for a few months now.

 

[MacCurry]

BOOMER

SOONER!

 

[MacCurry]

I'm pretty sure Carnegie Mellon got it before them, a few months ago.

Having been to CMU, it is a fine university, but nowhere geographically as large as the OU Norman campus and it is about half the size in student population.

 

[omgitscro]

Having been to CMU, it is a fine university, but nowhere geographically as large as the OU Norman campus and it is about half the size in student population.

We're a pretty small school. I'd be surprised if we were even half the size of a public state university.

 

[lordofthereef]

I love using Apple Pay, I've used it at Walgreen's, Subway, Wegman's, and Rite Aid.

I believe this technology is awesome and will pick up more as time goes on, but like with every new payment method, there's just no teaching certain people because they don't care. I doubt you'll see grandma at the checkout counter with her iPhone 6 plus initiating Apple Pay. It's bad enough that we'll have to deal with naive people during this whole transition period.

I can't wait for the wide option of this and the EMV deadline in October. Also can't wait to wait to get some good laughs at people trying to figure out why the machine says, "use chip reader," when swiping their EMV card on a terminal that has the chip reader enabled. I figured this is how it would go:

1.Grandma swipes her EMV BankAmericard at a Wegman's terminal.
2.Terminal says, "use chip reader."
3.Grandma goes, "huh?!?"
4.Grandma says, "this fricken technology, why does it always have to change, I swear!?"
5.Grandma has to get shown where to put the card in the slot.
6.Grandma pulls the card out as soon as she puts it in.
7.Grandma has to be instructed to leave the card in the terminal until prompted to take it out.

I have no idea why. It it never works at Wegmans for me. Everywhere else that supports NFC it works a treat. Wegmans doesn't like
Me

 

[macnewbie91]

I have no idea why. It it never works at Wegman's for me. Everywhere else that supports NFC it works a treat. Wegman's doesn't like
Me

You have to either swipe your shoppers club card or push "no SC card" on the terminal and then the "please swipe card" and the NFC logo will show up, place the phone near the terminal, and it should work.

Wegman's is usually the first (or one of the first) with new technologies such as bar-code scanning and Apple Pay, so I'm surprised their stores don't utilize the EMV chips yet.

I wrote a letter to Wegman's corporate about the failure of staff to recognize and initiate on what to do when someone makes an Apple Pay transaction. I received a letter back stating that they went ahead and trained the staff on what to do, and put notes in their register books in case they forgot. So now I'd advise you to do the same.

 

[lordofthereef]

You have to either swipe your shoppers club card or push "no SC card" on the terminal and then the "please swipe card" and the NFC logo will show up, place the phone near the terminal, and it should work.

Wegman's is usually the first (or one of the first) with new technologies such as bar-code scanning and Apple Pay, so I'm surprised their stores don't utilize the EMV chips yet.

I wrote a letter to Wegman's corporate about the failure of staff to recognize and initiate on what to do when someone makes an Apple Pay transaction. I received a letter back stating that they went ahead and trained the staff on what to do, and put notes in their register books in case they forgot. So now I'd advise you to do the same.

I always use my digital card that is stored in the Wegmans app. The funny thing is I've used apple pay there before. A new store opened about ten miles from me and we shopped there quite a few times, especially since organic safe very well priced. Admittedly I haven't tried on the last 2-3 trips because I justngotnfrustrated and none of the chasers had a clue.

 

[brig2221]

Boomer!

 

[macnewbie91]

I always use my digital card that is stored in the Wegmans app. The funny thing is I've used apple pay there before. A new store opened about ten miles from me and we shopped there quite a few times, especially since organic safe very well priced. Admittedly I haven't tried on the last 2-3 trips because I justngotnfrustrated and none of the chasers had a clue.

Does the clerk have to scan the one on the app, or is there a way for you to scan it yourself? I've been tempting to use the digital one.

 

[mgmusicman94]

My school (University of Delaware) has been accepting it everywhere since it launched last year. Since they already accepted contactless payment it just worked.

Oklahoma is definitely not the first, maybe the first to try to market it though.

 

[lordofthereef]

Does the clerk have to scan the one on the app, or is there a way for you to scan it yourself? I've been tempting to use the digital one.

They can do either. There is a little scanner thing pointed relates the customer that you can easily just scan yourself.

 

[macnewbie91]

They can do either. There is a little scanner thing pointed relates the customer that you can easily just scan yourself.

I'm confused.

 

[lordofthereef]

I'm confused.

You can either scan it yourself or have the person at the checkout scan it at their terminal. The "self scan" option has a little scanner pointing towards the lane you walk through. You just "swipe" your phone screen in front of ignite your Wegmans card up. You can use the Wegmans app or do what I do and use a third party app that stores all of my club cards.