Is Apple Pay in Italy?
I will be traveling to Italy in a couple of weeks? Will I be able to use Apple Pay anywhere there?
George
iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1
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I will be traveling to Italy in a couple of weeks? Will I be able to use Apple Pay anywhere there?
George
iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1
If you have Apple Pay set up on your device and you have a card with a US billing address it will work anywhere that accepts NFC payments.
See this article -http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/21/apple-pay-already-works-internationall y-but-only-with-us-credit-cards
If you have Apple Pay set up on your device and you have a card with a US billing address it will work anywhere that accepts NFC payments.
See this article -http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/21/apple-pay-already-works-internationall y-but-only-with-us-credit-cards
Thanks so much for the information. Good news. I do have a credit card with a U.S. bank and billing address. I am looking forward to Apple Paying my way through Italy.
George
It will be touch and go. Some POS terminals in Europe will accept ApplePay (as long as you have a qualifying credit card as anypats has stated) but some will not. Such has been my experience in the UK and France last week. So do not rely on ApplePay as your only source of payment in Italy.
An update. I tried Apple Pay at a restaurant in Rome. The waiter had no idea what Apple Pay is, But I held my phone next to his terminal and bingo, it worked. He was looking at the display and I asked hI'm what it said. He said, "give me more money" and laughed. He called a couple of other waiters over to show them what happened.
George
Update to the update: I tried using Apple Pay at other Italian merchants unsuccessfully. They insisted on swiping my card before entering the transaction amount and once the card is swiped, Apple Pay is not needed. i don't know whether this was store policy or the machines required a swipe before entering the amount.
George
Probably store policy. Or the POS was not NFC enabled; not all are. ApplyPay is not yet available for European accounts . So you have to assume most Italian merchants are unfamiliar with it. As are many US merchants. In the US there have been reports that returning merchandise bought via ApplePay is tricky as some stores have a policy of wanting to "see" the physical card before initiating the return. Problem is that the number on the card does not match the CC number on the receipt because ApplePay uses a "virtual" CC number. The problem is solved by showing the device account number on the "back" of the CC in Passbook which is the number printed on the receipt.
There is still learning curve, which will decrease once ApplePay becomes more common.
FelipeV: Would a Bluetooth enabled device work? On several that I encountered, I could see that Bluetooth was enabled. But the clerk or waiter would not enter the transaction until a physical card was swiped.
George
Don't know, but my guess is no. ApplePay is built to work with NFC and not bluetooth.
I concur with FelipeV on this. ApplePay is based on NFC and not WiFi.
Is Apple Pay in Italy?