{"id":279023,"date":"2018-10-23T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=279023"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:15:24","slug":"how-to-set-up-and-use-samsung-pay-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/279023\/how-to-set-up-and-use-samsung-pay-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up and use Samsung Pay in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Pay officially launched in South Africa in August, offering Absa and Standard Bank clients the ability to use their smartphones to make card purchases.<\/p>\n<p>What sets it apart from other mobile payment apps is its support for card payment terminals that are already installed at shops and restaurants around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The card machine also doesn\u2019t necessarily need to support contactless \u201ctap-and-go\u201d payments for Samsung Pay to work. For payment terminals without the near field communications (NFC) technology used in contactless cards, Samsung has a technology it calls Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST).<\/p>\n<p>MST allows devices which support Samsung Pay to create a magnetic field which mimics the swipe of a bank card on a card terminal.<\/p>\n<p>As this requires special hardware in the device, the following smartphones currently support Samsung Pay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy Note8<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy Note9<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Samsung Galaxy A8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Setting up Samsung Pay<\/h3>\n<p>To set up Samsung Pay, you must first download the app from the Google Play store.<\/p>\n<p>When you launch the app for the first time, it will need to connect the Internet to download a set of files from Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>After Samsung Pay is installed and updated, it will guide you through the set-up process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Configure security \u2014 specify a PIN or password, and choose whether to use your fingerprint or iris as an alternative method to authenticate payments.<\/li>\n<li>Add a card by scanning it via NFC, or with the phone\u2019s camera.<\/li>\n<li>Fill in any required information not populated with the scan, such as your CVV number.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the one-time PIN sent by your bank to activate the card.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once your card has been added and activated, you can start using Samsung Pay to make payments.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband editor-at-large Jan Vermeulen details how to set up Samsung Pay in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rVr1zUVrg0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Pay is quick and easy to set up, providing a secure payment method to users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":275877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26,52,13389],"class_list":["post-279023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-headline","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279031,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279023\/revisions\/279031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}