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Tag: Apple Pay

  • Indiegogo enables Apple Pay

    Indiegogo is the first crowdfunding platform to implement Apple Pay, making it easier for you to fund projects on a whim.

    We’re always looking for ways to help people find and fund what matters to them—in the simplest way possible. As the only crowdfunding partner to join the Apple Pay launch, we’ve made supporting campaigns and bringing dreams to life even easier. The single-touch payment feature also comes with an additional built-in security layer through Apple’s ‎Touch ID™ system, which encrypts and remotely stores credit card data. We take pride in our unprecedented trust and safety measures, which protect contributors and campaign owners, alike.

    Our Apple Pay integration is the latest of recent Indiegogo product improvements, including the introduction of our iPhone app, which allows contributors to discover and support campaigns on the go, and provides campaign owners with mobile management tools.

    Great news for crowdfunders all around, or at least the ones in the regions where Apple Pay is currently available. If you’re looking for something to sink your money into, Daily Crowdfunder picks one greatcampaign – from all platforms – every day and feature it.

  • Apple Pay to launch on October 18 according to report

    Macrumors reports that Apple Pay is around the corner.

    An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple’s new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.

    It’d make more sense to launch on October 16, after the Apple event (my predictions can be found here), but then again perhaps Apple want some time to get the Apple Pay enabling version of iOS, 8.1, out to the masses first. We’ll know soon enough, and please remember to treat this as a rumor for now.

  • It's not about the payment, it's about the shopping

    Jason Snell replying to Tim O’Reilly’s essay on payment providers, and O’Reilly’s notion that Uber’s model is truly disruptive while Apple Pay is basically the same old wallet opening action:

    To summon an Uber, O’Reilly needs to take his phone out of his pocket, launch the Uber app, and tap a few times. If those steps sound familiar, it’s because they’re not that different from how one would buy some groceries at Whole Foods using Apple Pay. The phone comes out at the start of the process, rather than the end, but it still comes out.

    I agree with Jason. While the Uber experience feels new and like something from the future, it really is no different than beeping something at the teller by the exit. O’Reilly’s mixing up the payment experience with the shopping experience.