Week after week we get some news related to the world of Apple Pay and its expansion throughout the world outside the borders of Cupertino. Apple is aware that this method of mobile payments is reaching more users and proof of this is that last week they made it available to all a video in which he gave us a tour explaining the procedure.
Now, in order to use the Apple Pay payment method, you must first disembark in the country in question at the hand of Apple and then that the readers who have the establishment are adapted for this type of technology, that is, have NFC technology.
For all those small establishments that have been in the situation of wanting to start accepting payments through Apple Pay because it is already available, we have the news that the Square company today launched an NFC reader that will help them do it.
In this way, all those companies could start accepting mobile payments with Apple Pay from now on, yes, for now. This reader has only been released in the United States so it will be the small businesses in that country that start with it.
The merchant will only have to install this reader and later that the client brings his iPhone or Apple Watch to later validate the payment using the Touch ID. We have to emphasize that this little reader also you will be able to charge chip cards since it has a side slot in which to insert the card.
The reader is priced at $ 49 and is now available for purchase in the United States. We'll see if when Apple Pay disembarks in Spain, options like this appear for all businesses that want to implement it don't run into a concrete wall as far as possibilities.