Stripe primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. It is just a piece of time before they have put afore a support for NFC payments on iOS. For further bred, the financial service company is about to bring functionality on smartphones to Android.
Source 9TOGoogle furl that with the ability for business owners to accept payments from customers via NFC “Tap to Pay” was launched on iOS. That effectively turns iPhones into terminals for Apple Pay and other NFC services.
Stripe introduced “Tap to Pay” in these countries
Introducing Tap to Pay on Android Stripe comes up with support available now in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore via Squire, Fareharbor, Oddle, and GiveTap. When used, there’s no other hardware needed for businesses to accept NFC payments.
Tap to Pay on Android helps businesses build and customize in-person checkouts without the need for traditional point-of-sale hardware. Squire, a barbershop business management platform, recently adopted Tap to Pay on Android with Stripe to make it easier for barbershops to accept in-person payments.
The recent support is only available in beta right at present and works on “any NFC-enabled Android phone or tablet” as affirmed by Stripe. Square was working on the same feature for Android devices, but it seems Stripe was able to beat Square to the punch.
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