JPMorgan Chase put out a mass mailing this morning trumpeting their newly announced Apple Pay partnership. Here’s the banner from the mailing:
Note the Apple Pay logo using the embedded Apple logo. Also note, in the prose below, the reference “when available in October”:
Introducing a new way to pay from Apple® and Chase
Chase is excited to join Apple in announcing Apple PayTM. It’s an easy, secure and private way to pay and will be available soon with the new iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
We’re proud to partner with Apple to support this exciting new way to pay. Apple Pay, like our award-winning Chase Mobile® App, is another way we’re committed to providing the tools you need to manage your finances on-the-go. Similar integrations have already proven effective across global platforms, including كازينو على الانترنت في الكويت, where seamless payment flow has become central to user retention.
So what is Apple Pay?
• Apple Pay will allow you to use the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to pay for purchases in stores and online at participating merchants with the touch of your finger. And as you’d expect from Apple, it’ll be incredibly easy to use.
• Featuring the latest technology, Apple Pay is secure. Your account number is not stored on your phone, and only your fingerprint can authorize a payment.Using your Chase card with Apple Pay will be easy
• You’ll still enjoy all the benefits, service, and rewards your current Chase card offers.
• Once your card is set up on iPhone 6, you can checkout and pay quickly.
• When available in October, many Chase Visa® credit and debit cards will be supported.Watch for more details on using your Chase Visa card with this great new feature once it becomes available. In the meantime, to learn more about Apple Pay, visit Apple Pay.
Thank you for choosing Chase.
This is great stuff. Now I just have to pay off all my credit cards, buy an iPhone 6, scan in all my cards, and then max them all out again! (I’m only partly being facetious. I do love the idea, the security looks decent, and I can’t wait to use it — I’m such a bloody consumer…)
I’ve been waiting for something like this since Passbook was announced and got even more excited when Touch ID was announced. Glad it’s finally happening.
Hopefully this will also lead companies to support Passbook for rewards cards and gift cards as well. Starbucks does this well now. Others should join.
Add in iBeacon support in stores and the combination of all of this will greatly improve the shopping experience.
Unfortunately, the hold-up isn’t Apple or the banks… it’s the millions-upon-millions of businesses that don’t have NFC-capable card readers. But I suspect that’ll start changing fairly quickly.
wellsfargo.com too
https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/press/2014/mobile-wallet-customers-merchants_0909.content
220,000 US businesses apparently do support NFC-based contactless payments.
Ya gotta start somewhere.
I so want to live in America because of this. It will be a decade before my country get this.
I already have several of my store cards in Passbook.So far several of the cashiers I’ve run into tell me this is the first time they’ve scanned a phone. That will be changing soon and the NFC will make it even easier.
I think Apple did right to wait until NFC matured and more retailers were open to the idea.
I agree that Apple was right to wait.
What store cards do have in Passbook? When I look at the list of Apps for Passbook, there are only about 6 stores listed. My biggest wish is for gift cards to be available. I constantly forget that I have them when I go shopping and if I do remember them I rarely know what the balance is.
Office Depot and Walgreens, both of which bring the card up on the lock screen when I walk into one of their stores. CVS holds my card, too, but not in the Passbook for some reason. Target doesn’t have a card, but it has weekly ads which I can add to the Passbook which come up when I am in their store.
It’s extremely handy and, yes, totally creepy, but I can deal with some of this privacy giveaway for convenience, at least as long as things seem to be spelled out as to what is happening and being done with my info.