Apple Pay Question

[venomx999]

To those in the UK, does Asda accept Apple Pay for orders over £30 ? Or is it restricted to £30

 

[gnasher729]

You'd have to ask Asda. But it's not Asda that accepts or doesn't accept more than £30, it's each individual card reader. "Stupid" card readers only see a conctactless card and have the £30 limit. "Clever" card readers see it is Apple Pay and accept higher limits. It could easily be that some stores have upgraded their card readers and others haven't.

 

[KrisLord]

£30 limit applies in all Asda stores I’ve used.

Ours even have updated software on the self checkouts (hardware is the same) that specifically mentions contactless and the £30 limit

 

[KrisLord]

Also, I don’t recall anyone in the Apple Pay UK thread ever saying any Asda store had removed the limit.

 

[danmart]

Not according to this page. So, standard £30 contactless limit will apply.

 

[venomx999]

Also, I don’t recall anyone in the Apple Pay UK thread ever saying any Asda store had removed the limit.

Could you send me the link to the thread please

 

[danmart]

It’s in the Apple Pay sub form here

 

[D582]

To those in the UK, does Asda accept Apple Pay for orders over £30 ? Or is it restricted to £30

Asda is owned by Wal-Mart. To date, Wal-Mart has never liked contactless payments as it hinders their data collection and mining efforts. They have not enabled it in US or Canadian Wal-Mart stores (even though Canada has a contactless use and acceptance rate nearing that of the UK).

The only reason you see it being enabled at all is to satisfy mandates from the card networks that all card readers in Europe need to support contactless. Unfortunately, this mandate does not include requirements to support Device Verification for transactions exceeding the No Verification amount (£30 in the UK).