Costco credit card dropping Apple Pay - Citibank Business

Maybe we can appeal to Costco management that this (Apple Pay notification) is an important security feature that Costco's customers want and need. Anybody out there work for Costco? It seems certain that Citi isn't going to much for their customers. I still haven't been able to figure out if I pay the last bill to Amex or to Citi. Perhaps Citi hopes we'll pay ours twice! 😕

Well, I just spoke with a supervisor with CITI and she confirmed that the Costco Business Visa WILL NOT work with Apple Pay and she had no idea if any changes were in the works. She told me that to use Apple Pay I needed to apply for a Costco Personal Visa.

Hi All,

Costco is on it.

AS usual!

I Just received this from headquarters:

Allowing business accounts to load the new Costco Visa card onto Apple Pay is a request that has been presented to our card issuer, Citi. We expect that to completed in the near future, so please look for announcements from Citi.

PAUL LATHAM

SVP | COSTCO WHOLESALE

Membership, Marketing, Services

I believe Costco has the weight and influence to convince Citi to make the change but I also hope as part of them enabling their cards to work with Apple Pay that they will also get Apple Pay Notifications to work as well. What a great security feature! It has alerted me to issues days before I would have without it.

And those 2 benefits are?????

I'm wondering how this slipped through the cracks (someone had to know this would be an issue)? Also wondering why this has not gone viral? Seems it would affect many but this is the main article I've found on the subject. It's like the dirty little secret that if not fixed quickly will eventually get out to the media (I'm sure someone at AMX is having a fields day with this)...

I know when I discovered the problem, my knee-jerk reaction was to just cancel it all together and use my Chase card (better benefits, apple pay and great notifications). I'm going to give Costco/Citibank a little time to get it right but in the mean time my Chase visa is getting ALL my companies business.

Interestingly: Costco payment processing makes a big deal about Apple Pay. https://www.costcopaymentprocessing.com/applepay/FAQ

I called Citi last night after almost 2 hour wait. I was told that it was actually Costco, not Citi, prohibits Apple Pay on Citi Business Card.

I suppose that Citi just flat lied to me. That's upsetting. Well, I told the rep that I will cancel my Citi business card and use some other visa cards. I have Chase cards too, but their business card don't support Apple Pay neither. It's sad state. I really liked Costco Amex card.

To make it worse, my wife was at Costco yesterday and somehow they convinced her to apply a new Costco card and Citi business card. I told her on the phone to ask them whether the Citi business card will support Apple Pay. The Costco people told her that the Citi business cards support Apple Pay, but not at Costco. I'll ask her to withdraw the app.

I discovered a feature of the Citi Bank credit cards that now that I've used it I may like it better than the apple pay notifications. I registered for an online account and inside the account settings I found notifications for card activity. You can have them sent to your email or text to your phone. The benefit of it over apple pay notifications is it notifies me of activity on ALL card holders which I was not able to get with Apple Pay notifications. Now if they will just add the Business card on Apple Pay I will be happy.