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Apple Pay Apple Pay in the UK
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Just went into M&S in Covent Garden, the payment terminals now have an Apple Pay logo on the screen. You still have to press pay by card, i went to put my phone to the reader and an employee came over and said "I don't think we do that here" my fingerprint was read, he said "oh ok it does".
Proceeded to pret outside my office, bought a diet coke, double press the button on my watch, placed it on the reader and it went through instantly. Couldn't be more impressed.
Also, looks like i left HSBC at just the right time.
Proceeded to pret outside my office, bought a diet coke, double press the button on my watch, placed it on the reader and it went through instantly. Couldn't be more impressed.
Also, looks like i left HSBC at just the right time.
Is it possible to see how much you've spent in Passbook on Apple Watch? Some kind of list of that day's transactions?
If you don't have the card reader security enabled on your account, they ask you multiple choice questions based from history via your experion credit report. I was asked about family members, previous address and bank accounts i had opened.
I don't mind going through that if it means i don't have to put my card in that reader if i want to log into online banking.
I switched my region and used my Nationwide card on a London Bus at about 2:30 this morning. It seemed a bit slow to register but that might have been me.
In recent transactions its showing up with just the location and time- no cost? Is that because TfL don't charge me until tomorrow?
In recent transactions its showing up with just the location and time- no cost? Is that because TfL don't charge me until tomorrow?
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Most likely yeah, in fact I don't think they charge you until the end of the week...
Indeed, I don't mind it was just a bit unexpected! There were things like "how old is Nigel [my surname]?" and a list of options - I don't know anyone in my family called Nigel so the correct answer was none of the above! Same happened with a list of counties I have never lived in.
My Apple Pay experience this morning!
Conveniently needed fuel! Lucky I have a BP Garage nearby with an attached Subway. Two birds in one stone! Took my Mac with me as the plan was to get some work done with my Subway breakfast.
BP - Clueless! Worked a charm but the expressions I got from the two members of staff at the counter when I wanted to pay using Apple Pay were just priceless! Obviously they didn't get the memo..
Never had so much fun paying for fuel though. Also worth noting that I filled up £19.92 haha (see screenshot)!
Subway - Different story here. Most Subways have contactless already, and this particular member of staff was pretty clued up on Apple Pay (bravo Subway) but we quickly realised that this Subway has not had its contactless readers installed yet! Had to pay by cash which was far less exciting.
Word of mouth I think will spread the word very quickly!
Conveniently needed fuel! Lucky I have a BP Garage nearby with an attached Subway. Two birds in one stone! Took my Mac with me as the plan was to get some work done with my Subway breakfast.
BP - Clueless! Worked a charm but the expressions I got from the two members of staff at the counter when I wanted to pay using Apple Pay were just priceless! Obviously they didn't get the memo..
Never had so much fun paying for fuel though. Also worth noting that I filled up £19.92 haha (see screenshot)!Subway - Different story here. Most Subways have contactless already, and this particular member of staff was pretty clued up on Apple Pay (bravo Subway) but we quickly realised that this Subway has not had its contactless readers installed yet! Had to pay by cash which was far less exciting.
Word of mouth I think will spread the word very quickly!
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May I ask what's special about £19.92?My Apple Pay experience this morning!
Conveniently needed fuel! Lucky I have a BP Garage nearby with an attached Subway. Two birds in one stone! Took my Mac with me as the plan was to get some work done with my Subway breakfast.
BP - Clueless! Worked a charm but the expressions I got from the two members of staff at the counter when I wanted to pay using Apple Pay were just priceless! Obviously they didn't get the memo..
Subway - Different story here. Most Subways have contactless already, and this particular member of staff was pretty clued up on Apple Pay (bravo Subway) but we quickly realised that this Subway has not had its contactless readers installed yet! Had to pay by cash which was far less exciting.
Word of mouth I think will spread the word very quickly!
Those quite often crash with normal contactless cards (no idea why), don't worry!Mixed success this morning. Worked great in Starbucks and Co-Op, but managed to crash a self service card reader in Boots. No one around so sheepishly paid by cash
It actually took me 36 minutes and 30 seconds to get through!
TfL said it would be a couple of weeks before Apple Pay is available in their online accounts I think.
Barclays / Barclaycard official Twitter announced that they are joining Apple Pay in the future this morning: https://twitter.com/BarclaysUK/status/620861754424299520
They had loads of the standard questions; birthday, card numbers, customer reference number, then loads of incredibly random questions that I can honestly say have never come up in a security check before. They said they had asked Experian for a check of my other accounts, and they gave me dates I opened accounts at other banks, and asked which banks they were with, then they gave me people's names, and I had to say whether I'd ever shared a house with them!?
Many of those are only having it enabled when the £30 contactless update is applied to the card terminals this September.Found this in the Metro, a list of places you can go over the £20 cap apparently:
Under £20!
Oh, nothing in particular about that specific price. Just needed to ensure that I didn't go over the £20.00 limit so I could use Apple Pay!
Indeed I finally got through and had some similarly obscure questions, see my post above!Those quite often crash with normal contactless cards (no idea why), don't worry!
It actually took me 36 minutes and 30 seconds to get through!
They had loads of the standard questions; birthday, card numbers, customer reference number, then loads of incredibly random questions that I can honestly say have never come up in a security check before. They said they had asked Experian for a check of my other accounts, and they gave me dates I opened accounts at other banks, and asked which banks they were with, then they gave me people's names, and I had to say whether I'd ever shared a house with them!?
Under £20!
From The Guardian comments section:
'I'm looking forward to this. Soon after it was launched a woman in the queue at my local tax avoiding coffee shop cracked the screen of her Apple Watch when she ill advisedly ****ted it against a payment terminal. Hopefully we'll get to see more silly behaviour with this!'
'I'm looking forward to this. Soon after it was launched a woman in the queue at my local tax avoiding coffee shop cracked the screen of her Apple Watch when she ill advisedly ****ted it against a payment terminal. Hopefully we'll get to see more silly behaviour with this!'
How do you know this? It's annoying that there's no clear information going around about the limits. I think Boots is the only one 100% confirmed today.
Given the commenters disparagement, I imagine that's just a made up story.
That's what the banks have said. The higher limit will launch in one go in September / October I believe.
Even Boots doesn't support the higher limit today. http://www.boots.com/en/_1729469
I was led to believe that the £30 increase is separate from places updating their terminals to remove the cap entirely.
