iPhone's Tap to Pay feature is now set to be introduced in Italy, as confirmed by the tech giant themselves this Wednesday. The contactless payment feature was just recently made available in Japan and . Similar to other nations where the capability is accessible, the business has been collaborating closely with prominent Italian payment networks to enable them to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone support to their clientele.
claim that payment giants Stripe, Adyen, and Nexi have begun to provide Italian businesses with an Apple iPhone-based payment solution for their clients. Near-field communication, or NFC, is a wireless technology that enables short-range data exchange between devices and is used by Apple's Tap to Pay service. Tap to Pay allows retailers to take contactless payments through an iOS app that is compatible with an iPhone X or later model that has the most recent iOS version installed.
To process a payment, the retailer will only need to tell the customer to hold their Apple Watch, iPhone, or compatible NFC card close to the merchant's iPhone during the checkout process. Read Also: Italian Payment Platforms and Apple's Tap to Pay Shop owners were previously given the option to utilize the NexiSoftPOS application on their phones to process payments, as Nexi is the largest payments business in Europe based on the number of transactions completed But up until today, that was limited to phones running Android-not Apple's iOS as the operating system. Small businesses can .