Apple Pay comes to Parking Panda, PayByPhone Parking, and Hotel Tonight

Apple Pay is becoming more accessible to more services. This time around, Parking Panda, Hotel Tonight, and PayByPhone Parking join the list (SpotHero is another app but that isn’t available here yet).  Parking Panda, the app that finds and reserves a parking space for you, now allows you to pay via Apple Pay. And if you pay using Apple’s payment system, you get a 10 percent discount until September 1^st and it’ll be automatically deducted after you choose Apple Pay at checkout. Apple Pay users are even eligible to win a free month or year of parking among other prizes.

PayByPhone Parking, another similar parking app, also adds Apple Pay, among the other new features of the app (such as location aware imagery, smart notices, and personal reminders). Meanwhile, Hotel Tonight, will let you find and book a hotel with Apple Pay without having a Hotel Tonight account. This last-minute hotel booking app lets you book up to a week in advanced for over 15,000 hotels in 500 destinations around the world. The app is offering first-time customers that use Apple Pay US$25 off their first $135+ reservation by putting in the promo code APPLEPAY25. The promo will be available until August 30^th.

Source: Mac Rumors

Apple Pay tipped to be coming to web purchases

If recent rumours are to be believed, Apple Pay won’t just be limited to select iOS devices but will be coming to online purchases as well, which means taking the fight to PayPal. It’s said Apple might unveil this plan at the upcoming WWDC 2016. It isn’t known though if it’ll work with devices that don’t have fingerprint sensors, such as desktops, or if it’ll only work with the Safari browser. At the moment Apple Pay only works with iPhone 6/6s, iPhone 6/6s Plus, iPhone SE, both iPad Pro models, iPad mini, and Apple Watch, because it makes use of your fingerprint to verify the purchase or your heartbeat, which is the case with the Apple Watch. There have been recent rumours that Apple is also releasing a new MacBook with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor, so that could answer that concern. We’ll just have to wait a few weeks if there is any truth to the speculation.

Source: Digital Trends

Apple Pay now available in Canada's Big Five banks, In-app purchases

Apple Pay is now available in Canada to customers of BMO (MasterCard, Interac), TD (Visa, Interac), Scotiabank (Visa, Amex, Interac) which are joining CIBC, Canadian Tire and RBC Credit which launched the service last month. 

Apple Pay also extends to purchasing physical goods within apps or purchasing items from the Apple Store, while American Express is currently live and that won't change, support for all of the rest of the banks above will is also going live.

Launching payments within apps (all credit-card only; Interac support for in-app coming at a later date across these issuing banks) 

• ATB
• Canadian Tire
• CIBC
• RBC
• BMO
• TD
• Scotiabank
• American Express (already live).

Various Canadian apps have updated to be able to integrate Apple Pay for in-app purchases. For Apple Pay to work, users need an iPhone 6/6S, iPhone SE or an Apple Watch since these are the models that feature a secure enclave to enable the safe and secure transactions.

Source: Apple

Apple Pay expands to Canada with support from major banks this June

Apple's SVP for Apple Pay Jennifer Bailey demos the features of Apple Pay which is coming to Canada this JuneBy Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple Pay is available to all active Interac debit cards issued by CIBC and RBC. Your debit card does not have to be an Interac Flash enabled card. In stores, Apple Pay works with iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch. You will first need to add your debit card to the Apple Wallet to make mobile transactions.

Interac can be used with Apple Pay to buy goods and services across Canada in the hundreds of thousands of Canadian stores wherever contactless payments 

Apple Pay, which securely uses iPhone and Apple Watch to enable contact less payments, has been in Canada for some time now but limited to customers of American Express credit cards. That is all changing shortly as major banks and other credit card companies have been announced as partners and are looking to offer the functionality to their iPhone and Apple Watch-toting users. 

Apple has confirmed that Apple Pay will be coming to CIBC (credit and debit), ATB (credit, debit coming later), Canadian Tire Financial Services (credit), RBC (credit and debit) and of course American Express has enjoyed the first-mover advantage since late last year. 

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