Apple Pal has just announced that today it expands tapes to pay nine additional European countries: Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Liquenstein, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerl .and.
Despite what its name can indicate, tape to pay does not refer to your ability to buy with your iPhone. Instead, tape is a service for payment that allows businesses to accept unexpected payments on the iPhone, with no additional hardware or payment terminal required. It’s still a very useful service for traders everywhere, but we want its name to be less confused.
However, if you are a business in the above countries, you can now accept payment on the iPhone XS or run the latest iOS version later. You can accept the payment without debit or credit cards (visas, mastercards, discovers, American express), as well as Apple Pal, Google V LET Late and other digital V Lets lets on the phone or smartwatch.
Apple Pal says customers’ payment data is protected by the same technology that makes Apple Pal private and secure “, says Apple Pal. All transactions are encrypted and processed using a secure element of the iPhone, thus the Apple Pal does not know what is purchased or who is buying.
Source (in Finnish)
