Capitec Bank has launched digital payment wallet Apple Pay for its customers.<\/p>\n
The bank has added an Apple Pay section<\/strong><\/a> to its website and sent SMS messages to customers<\/strong><\/a> notifying them of the addition.<\/p>\n The bank subsequently confirmed to MyBroadband that it has launched Apple Pay and would announce more details later today (6 December).<\/p>\n Apple Pay is one of several well-known device-based payment wallets for smartphones, wearables, and other NFC-enabled devices.<\/p>\n It allows iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch owners to make tap payments at contactless terminals using their devices.<\/p>\n Websites can also support Apple Pay, allowing Mac users to authorise payments with Apple’s TouchID fingerprint reader.<\/p>\n To use the capability, banking customers must link their debit or credit cards on the Apple Wallet app<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Capitec customers can start transacting using Apple Pay by following the steps below:<\/p>\n They will then be able to use the app to transact, authenticating themselves using Face ID for secure transactions.<\/p>\n Customers can add multiple physical debit\/credit cards to a single profile, but the bank’s virtual cards are currently not supported.<\/p>\n Capitec said it was working on adding this functionality in the future.<\/p>\n Capitec is a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to digital wallets. For years, it seemed disinterested in supporting these services when queried by MyBroadband.<\/p>\n It only launched support for its first smart device digital wallet \u2014 Samsung Pay \u2014 in July 2022.<\/p>\n Samsung Pay was the first of several digital wallets to become available in South Africa, initially launching<\/a><\/strong> to Absa customers in August 2018.<\/p>\n In addition to Samsung Pay, most of the country’s major banks now also support Google Pay, Fitbit Pay, and Garmin Pay.<\/p>\n Apple Pay has been available to Absa, Discovery Bank, and Nedbank customers since March 2021<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n FNB added the platform in August 2021<\/strong><\/a>, while Standard Bank launched it<\/strong><\/a> in December 2021.<\/p>\n Apple Pay allows for making tap payments at NFC-enabled terminals using an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":472845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[26730,5376,39368,74892,83151,76422],"class_list":["post-472841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-apple-pay","tag-capitec-bank","tag-contactless-payments","tag-digital-payment-wallets","tag-tap-payments","tag-tap-to-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472851,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472841\/revisions\/472851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Capitec late to the digital payment party<\/h2>\n
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