Masterpass integrates with Zapper merchants in South Africa

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Masterpass integrates with Zapper merchants in South Africa

Mastercard and Zapper have collaborated to allow Masterpass users to pay for goods at Zapper merchants in South Africa using their smartphones.

Masterpass, Mastercard’s digital payment service, will now work at Zapper merchants – while Zapper users can use the app to make payments at Masterpass-enabled merchants.

 

[backstreetboy]

Great news. Now I only need Capitec's Masterpass app installed.

 

[Compton_effect]

And I only need Zapper Installed.

 

[SA-UK]

Cool ,more use for my MP.

 

[Newsfeed]

Update: Mastercard has stated that the collaboration between Masterpass and Zapper in South Africa is not yet live.

The system integration is being worked on, and is set to launch in the near future, said the company.

 

[SA-UK]

keep us posted

 

[backstreetboy]

Live now. Thanks Mastercard. Just deleted Zapper.

 

[Space]

what is happening with Zapper ?

Received the message this morning that Zapper no longer integrates with Masterpass QR codes, and not 2 hours later another message from Nedbank Money that it is no longer supporting Zapper as of yesterday

 

[backstreetboy]

Masterpass' behaviour in the local QR code payment sector is concerning - Hypertext

Zapper has revealed it will be leaving the Masterpass service on 25th October and we wanted to know why.

www.htxt.co.za

On Wednesday morning we spoke with Brett White, chief executive officer at Zapper and asked him rather pointedly, why Zapper was leaving Masterpass by Mastercard?

“The nature of the interoperability forces the apps that want to participate in Masterpass QR codes to process transactions the way Masterpass wants to process transactions,” White told Hypertext.

By taking this approach it prevents the application’s owner from working directly with the merchant and that hits the app in the pocket.

“Businesses in this industry make money on the acquiring side, so if you don’t hold that relationship in terms of processing the transaction you get excluded from the commercial end of the process,” the CEO said.

With Masterpass acting as the intermediary between the likes of Zapper and merchants, this means that the cut these partners gets is lower than if they went at it alone. Of course, Masterpass through Mastercard has a wealth of resources here, so its a trade-off. You lose your independence for those resources, but as we learned, that trade-off might not be worth it.

Masterpass has reportedly introduced unnecessary complexity to Zapper’s payment process which resulted in a friction-filled payment experience.

Worse still, it appears as if some Masterpass affiliates were trying to undermine Zapper.

Well this sucks.

/downloads Zapper again

 

[Nahnotme]

Ditto FNB as of the 25th...

Seems Zapper might be shooting themselves in the foot here