Oh, the green light is on. The green light has been on and flashing since the day these showed up the pumps (over two years ago?). I've contacted Costco several times about these readers over the last couple of years and always get canned generic responses. "Working on it... coming soon... phased rollout... blah blah blah"
Flashing isn’t the same thing as steady on. EMVCo dictates one steady light or virtual dot when waiting for a contactless read and all four lights lit when read was successful.
Correct and some gas stations still only have the flashing nfc light while all the working locations have solid lights and rarely the nfc led can burn out but it still reads contactless just fine. If its burned out that reader obviously won't flash.
That’s because the software on their POS device or system isn’t updated to a version recent enough to reflect the elimination of signatures. I still get asked for the signature every so often. Even when using apple pay and not the actual card.
QR will lead to a card not present transaction and merchants have to pay a much higher fee for those transactions. If card not present becomes the new standard at restaurants, they’ll be spending in fees what they saved by not purchasing standalone wireless terminals.
Does anyone else that eats at Red Lobster have it where the machine says it does NFC but it doesn't? I've tried everywhere on the machine but nothing happens. My favorites are Outback/Carrabbas/Bonefish where you get the 50% off the fourth order up to $20. And everything is through the app. When you pay with the app, it automatically applies it to the rewards.
The new process for paying is a bit annoying. Since Costco's membership card is not NFC I see a very little benefit for Apple Pay at their gas station. I find it that now if I use Coscto Citi Visa I no longer have to swipe it twice, just put it in once and the system processes the membership and payment - way more convenient than hassle with the card and then Apple Pay and improvement over the previous process where the card had to be swiped twice. This looks like the only play i will not bother with Apple Pay - just dont see any benefit.
I do exactly that at 7-eleven (7-eleven stores in Mexico, that is). I have them scan the loyalty barcode (here they use the payback loyalty program) from my apple watch screen and then I just tap the watch on the pinpad to pay with apple pay.
You don't have to "put it in" at all. Contactless works for both the membership portion and payment when using the Costco Citi card.
hmm, good to know. I somehow must have missed the reader for that. I will play with it more next time.
You are right, it does work like that now. One tap takes care of the membership and payment.
I just went to a 7-11 that had installed brand new pumps which did not have NFC readers. And for a credit card it was still using magnetic swipe.
Yes 7-Eleven refuses to accept contactless at the pump but a few locations with Wayne pumps do support it outside, while locations with Gilbarco pumps do not. 7-Eleven locations with MX915 inside do not have contactless enabled while locations with only iSC250's have it enabled inside. Its a freaking mess at 7-Eleven..I just went to a 7-11 that had installed brand new pumps which did not have NFC readers. And for a credit card it was still using magnetic swipe.
I can’t believe 7-eleven is better organized in a third world country than in it is the US. Here in Mexico all 7-eleven stores have ipp320’s and they all have contactless enabled. They all accept apple pay just fine despite it still not being officially supported in the country (official support is just coming later this year).
