MSE News: 'Apple Pay' coming to UK next month: Here's how it will work

NFH

http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/04/apple-pay-expected-to-go-live-in-the-u-k-on-july-14th/

NFH

As reported by the Independent, HSBC also mistakenly confirmed yesterday that Apple Pay will launch tomorrow, Tuesday 14th July 2015.

Until retailers upgrade the software in their contactless payment terminals, many retailers will limit Apple Pay transactions to the £20 maximum imposed for contactless cards. This is because the existing software cannot distinguish between payments with one-factor authentication (e.g. contactless cards) and two-factor authentication (e.g. Apple Pay). Once retailers upgrade their software, Apple Pay will enjoy no transaction limit, just like chip & PIN.

Kingsd316

This was live from last night, registered a Santander card about 10pm yesterday

NFH

Kingsd316 wrote: »

This was live from last night, registered a Santander card about 10pm yesterday

That's odd. I tried several times to register my Santander Zero credit card, and it didn't work even at 1am, only after 6am.

Kingsd316

It was just a standard debit card, took about 15 mins for the code to come and even after it registered i got an email saying it hadn't been successful but so far as i can see its all set up, not used it yet though

20aday

Santander Visa Debit cards were working in the early hours of this morning (around 1AM) but their MasterCard credit cards were sometime after 6AM (as posted above.)

Went to my local Co-Op here in Derby and used it successfully.

eagle

Managed to set up my Amex fairly quickly. It was already the card I have registered for the Apple Store so was really easy. Haven't tested it out yet though...