Apple announced today that it has officially launched support for Tap to Pay up north in Canada.
What Tap to Pay does is it allows businesses small and large to use an iPhone like a point-of-sale device (POS) and enable customers to make purchases from it, while also accepting contactless payment methods such as Apple Pay as well as contactless credit and debit cards.
As of today, Adyen, Moneris, Stripe, and Square are the first payment platforms in Canada to start supporting Tap to Pay on iPhone. There are also plans for Aurus; Chase Payment Solutions, a part of J.P. Morgan Payments; Fiserv; and Helcim to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone for customers in Canada in “the coming months.”
Later this year in Canada, merchants such as the Canada Apple Stores and Sephora will be the first two businesses there to begin accepting Tap to Pay in their retail stores.
Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet, said it is a win for customers in Canada, as well as the country’s businesses small and large.
“Canadians increasingly rely on a variety of digital and contactless payment options, so we’re excited to partner with payment platforms to offer merchants across Canada a private, secure, and easy-to-use capability that meets customers where they are,” she said. “We’ve seen how merchants and customers around the world appreciate the versatility of Tap to Pay on iPhone, and in a region as diverse as Canada’s, we look forward to making it easy for businesses of any size to transact from coast to coast with just an iPhone.”
Apple did recently announce that it had launched Tap to Pay support in Japan too. It is also available in the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Ukraine.
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