Digital mobile payment platform Apple Pay is now available in South Africa, according to several Absa, Discovery Bank, and Nedbank customers.<\/p>\n
Apple Pay allows users to load a supported banking card and use their Apple device \u2013 such as an iPhone or cellular Apple Watch \u2013 to make a contactless payment at supported NFC-based terminals.<\/p>\n
There have been\u00a0various signs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0over the last few months that the service would be coming to banks, including mentions of it on the websites of Absa and Discovery Bank.<\/p>\n Numerous MyBroadband forum members<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Twitter users on Tuesday morning reported that they managed to load their banking cards to the Apple Wallet and successfully make payments with the service.<\/p>\n Discovery Bank account holders on the MyBroadband forum started reporting that they were able to use Apple Pay after one user spotted ads from Discovery Bank for the Apple Pay platform on a Google Search.<\/p>\n \u201cManaged to successfully add my Discovery Bankcard \u2013 didn\u2019t need to change region settings,\u201d one user stated.<\/p>\n Users shared screenshots showing the final step in the Apple Wallet process with their Discovery Bank cards successfully added.<\/p>\n Two of the Discovery Bank cards confirmed to be supported included the Gold Debit and Signature Debit account cards, as shown in the images below.<\/p>\n Other banking customers reported being able to load their Absa and Nedbank cards as well.<\/p>\n \u201cNedbank Amex and VISA added successfully and managed to use at Seattle Coffee,\u201d one MyBroadband forum members said.<\/p>\n Absa customers also said that they were receiving notifications in the banking app to set up their card with Apple Pay.<\/p>\n Below are screenshots of the app notification and a user who successfully activated Apple Pay with an Absa Gold Debit card.<\/p>\n Not available to FNB and Standard Bank customers yet<\/strong><\/p>\n A number of users indicated that attempts to load any FNB, Investec, and Standard Bank cards were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n \u201cI tried FNB Fusion and Credit Cards \u2013 both not working,\u201d a MyBroadband forum member said.<\/p>\n \u201cStandard Bank also not working. Guess I\u2019m opening a cheapie Discovery account until all this is resolved,\u201d another stated.<\/p>\n An Investec customer on Twitter shared a screenshot showing that he received a \u201cYour Issuer Does Not Yet Offer Support for This Card\u201d message.<\/p>\n Comment from banks<\/strong><\/p>\n MyBroadband contacted Absa, Discovery Bank, FNB, Nedbank, and Standard Bank for feedback on support for Apple Pay.<\/p>\n FNB Card CEO Chris Labuschagne said the bank was working with Apple and looked forward to bringing Apple Pay to its customers.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce available, it will be accessible at scale to nearly 1 million iPhone users from our 6 million digitally active customers,\u201d Labuschagne said.<\/p>\n Other banks did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n This story first appeared on Mybroadband. You can read the original article here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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