{"id":294888,"date":"2019-01-23T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=294888"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:30:33","slug":"fnb-launches-scan-to-pay-via-its-banking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/294888\/fnb-launches-scan-to-pay-via-its-banking-app\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB launches scan-to-pay via its banking app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB will now allow consumers and sole proprietor businesses to perform and accept QR code payments through its banking app.<\/p>\n<p>FNB said that the new feature is being powered by\u00a0Masterpass &#8211; Mastercard\u2019s digital payment service &#8211; which is interoperable with most major domestic scan-to-pay services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are rapidly expanding our digital payments ecosystem by providing customers with helpful digital payments solutions, said Raj Makanjee, FNB Retail CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ability to make QR code payments offers our customers convenient and secure alternatives to carrying cash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As pioneers in innovation, we are consistently developing a wider selection of customer-centric solutions in digital payments, including solutions such as GeoPay and FNB Pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to enable it<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To make payment, individual customers can enable the new FNB App \u2018Scan to Pay\u2019 widget on their smartphones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Alternatively, they can select the &#8216;Payments&#8217; option on the FNB App, login and select FNB Pay, then click on \u2018Scan to Pay\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Similarly, businesses will select Payments, login and click on \u2018Speedpoint\u2019, register and begin to utilise the service within 24 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Businesses have the option to display the QR Code within the FNB app, email and print the QR code, or share it via social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>FNB said that there are no monthly rental or maintenance costs which makes this a cost-effective means for a business to accept digital payments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/294368\/south-african-banks-rolling-out-new-system-to-fight-debit-order-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South African banks rolling out new system to fight debit order fraud<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB will now allow consumers and sole proprietor businesses to perform and accept QR code payments through its banking app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":245865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[76,26],"class_list":["post-294888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-fnb","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294888","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294896,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294888\/revisions\/294896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}