Starbucks app for Android adds fingerprint support

If you frequent Starbucks and use their Android app, the latest update will bring features you might want. The app gets fingerprint support, meaning it’ll soon be easier to log in or reload your balance or even purchase gift cards within the app. Some of the other changes introduced in app include card balances being updated more frequently. Chase Pay has been optimized to make it easier for customers who reload their balance there. There are also new animations within the app.

Source: Android Police

Starbucks expands reach of Mobile Order & Pay in Canada

It’ll now be easier for Starbucks customers in Toronto and Vancouver to get their favorite beverages with the expansion of its Mobile Order & Pay service. Starting January 12 in Toronto and January 19 in Vancouver, customers can use either their Android or iOS devices to get their drink of choice faster and easier. Starbucks initially launched feature for iOS in Toronto back in October 2015. Mobile Order & Pay lets you skip the lines at your favorite Starbucks by placing your order and paying within. It will even show you estimated pick up times. It comes seamlessly integrated into Starbucks’s mobile app and is tied in with the My Starbucks Rewards loyalty program.

Starbucks boasts they are the first national retailer to offer mobile payment technology that combined with a loyalty program. According to the company, the mobile payment service already represents 18 percent of all in store transactions in Canadian Starbucks stores.

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Starbucks App brings mobile ordering and payments to Toronto iPhones on October 13

Starbucks will enable a new feature on their Starbucks app for customers to order and pay using their iPhones, this will cut down on lines and waiting time and ensure everyone gets their Pumpkin Spice Latte's as fast as possible.

The Mobile Order & Pay feature is coming to to approximately 300 company-owned stores in the Greater Toronto Area on October 13, 2015.

Starbucks customers using the app will be able to order ahead, then pay and pick up their purchases – providing on-the-go customers a simple and quick alternative to get some of their favourite food or beverage items.  

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Starbucks updates iOS app to address security concerns

Starbucks recently released 2.6.2 version of its iOS app to address a security flaw that stores user names, passwords, location, and email addresses locally in plain text, which can also be accessed by people who are connected to your device through a computer.

Starbuck’s CIO Curt Garner told Mobile Syrup that “We’d like to be clear: there is no indication that any customer has been impacted by this or that any information has been compromised. Regardless, we take these types of concerns seriously and have added several safeguards to protect the information you share with us.”