Apple Pay is available at nearly 2 million merchants

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Apple's electronic payments technologist Apple Pay is growing regarding the number of shops that offer this payment option in the United States, because at the moment it hardly has an international presence in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Apple has just confirmed to Business Times that the number of establishments where users of this technology can make use of it. Currently within the United States there are almost two million establishments compatible with Apple Pay technology.

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Currently Apple Pay is available in a large number of chain stores of all kinds, to which soon the establishments of the chains Crate & Barrel, Chick-fil-A and Au Bon Pain will be added that are carrying out the last tests in selected stores before offering this form of payment in all the stores they have throughout the country.

But in addition, the online store Zappos is also doing various tests to implement this form of payment soon. This will allow the clients of this firm to make payments quickly with a couple of clicks on the iPhone screen and thus avoid the tedious work of entering credit card numbers.

In the same statement sent to the Business Times, Apple states that in the last six months Apple Pay payments doubled for in-app purchases of apps, compared to the first sexy months of 2015.

The next country that you can enjoy Apple Pay will be China, where Apple is just closing deals with giant UnionPay that will offer the necessary support to be able to use this technology quickly in the country. The next countries where Apple Pay is scheduled to land, according to Tim Cook a few months ago will be Spain, Hong Kong and Singapore thanks to the agreement it has reached with American Express.


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