Mobile Payments: What is Tap & Pay?

What is Tap & Pay?

 

When we use a Contactless Card to tap on the Contactless reader to make a payment, instead of swiping a magstripe card, we are essentially using Tap & Pay technology. The same goes for any NFC enabled mobile device that support Card Emulation Mode – like Android and Blackberry. Tap & Pay is just a marketing terminology. You may also see it referred to as Tap-n-Pay, Tap to Pay, Tap & Go, Wave & Pay and so on.

Mobile Payments Blog Series

Welcome to the Mobile payments FAQ and not so FAQ series and you are on FAQ #8. The idea behind this series is to share and learn as much as possible about the field of mobile payments. If you like, you can read all of the FAQs on the Mobile Payments category or by visiting the Table of contents page.

 
 
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Ganeshji Marwaha

I spend my days as the Director of Technology for Mobility practice and help my clients design enterprise and consumer mobile strategies. Mobile Payments, Digital Wallet and Tokenization technologies are my areas of specialization
  • Prashant Kumar

    can we write tagid on android device nfc card chip and access the same data using HCE.