Apple Pay accepted at more than 2M locations, coming to Chick-fil-A, other stores soon
As of Thursday, iPhone and Apple Watch owners can use their devices to complete Apple Pay transactions at more than two million retail locations, Apple says, with chains like Chick-fil-A expected to add compatibility soon.
According to a report from Bloomberg, published by The Business Times, Apple's in-house payments initiative is developing as planned after the company blew past internal goals to roll out compatibility at 1.5 million retail outlets by the end of 2015.
Aside from currently existing deployments, big chains like Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A and Au Bon Pain have plans to integrate Apple Pay as a checkout option in the near future. Additionally, online merchants are flipping the switch on in-app payments, like Zappos.com did on Tuesday.
"We've been getting requests from customers to use Apple Pay for quite a while," said Zappos' mobile chief Aki Iida. "It makes the customer experience easier, why not try it?"
Not a highly touted feature, in-app payment integration is on the rise, Apple said. The company noted purchase volume more than doubled in the trailing half of 2015 compared to the first six months of the year, the report said.
Apple Pay is considered a young product in the payments space. As such, both merchants and consumers are reluctant to commit when traditional offerings remain widely available. The company is still investigating how best to boost adoption in the U.S., a culture that has not yet evolved past swipe credit card transactions.
Apple intends to expand Apple Pay into China as part of a partnership with card processor Union Pay, a region of massive growth potential both for payments and the company's hardware. Last month, touchless Apple Pay transactions were reportedly working in some areas ahead of an official launch.
According to a report from Bloomberg, published by The Business Times, Apple's in-house payments initiative is developing as planned after the company blew past internal goals to roll out compatibility at 1.5 million retail outlets by the end of 2015.
Aside from currently existing deployments, big chains like Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A and Au Bon Pain have plans to integrate Apple Pay as a checkout option in the near future. Additionally, online merchants are flipping the switch on in-app payments, like Zappos.com did on Tuesday.
"We've been getting requests from customers to use Apple Pay for quite a while," said Zappos' mobile chief Aki Iida. "It makes the customer experience easier, why not try it?"
Not a highly touted feature, in-app payment integration is on the rise, Apple said. The company noted purchase volume more than doubled in the trailing half of 2015 compared to the first six months of the year, the report said.
Apple Pay is considered a young product in the payments space. As such, both merchants and consumers are reluctant to commit when traditional offerings remain widely available. The company is still investigating how best to boost adoption in the U.S., a culture that has not yet evolved past swipe credit card transactions.
Apple intends to expand Apple Pay into China as part of a partnership with card processor Union Pay, a region of massive growth potential both for payments and the company's hardware. Last month, touchless Apple Pay transactions were reportedly working in some areas ahead of an official launch.
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I average making Apple Pay payments about twice a day at this point, and there is still a long way to go. I need to dig out those stickers and smack them on the windows of places that do take it.
@AppleInsider it is Chick-fil-A and not Chik-fil-A .... http://www.chick-fil-a.com/
Also, I doubt very much that some Bloomberg reporter knows what Apple's "internal goals" are.
I gave up using because it's annoying when it doesn't work, and doesn't do me much good unless 100% of my payments are made this way.
I’m beginning to think CurrentC is vaporware. Remember, Walmart, CVS, Home Depot and others declared their intentions to support CurrentC at the same time they turned off NFC support. CurrentC is nowhere to be found and is rarely mentioned in the press anymore, especially after it got hacked big-time.
There is no "button to press."
Oh yeah, money.
i like Chik-Fil-A.
May 5, 2015 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-05/home-depot-to-become-largest-retailer-to-accept-apple-pay "However, a deal with Apple isn’t in place, so the plan isn’t final, he said." What deal? I thought the use of ApplePay was transparent to merchants, it just works.
What the heck does 2 people getting married have to do with how some one else feels or disagree's. If you do not agree with same sex marriage then don't get married to the same sex. But don't tell me I cant. Marriage is NOT only a religious act in the eye of the state. According to Wikipedia Chick-fil-A's charitable endeavor, the S. Truett Cathy-family-operated WinShape Foundation, had donated millions of dollars to political organizations seen as hostile to LGBT causes.