Rogers today announced the launch of their mobile payment app, the suretap wallet. The suretap wallet, available today on a number of Android and select BlackBerry devices, lets customers use their smartphones to store payment and gift cards on one app and make mobile payments at tens of thousands of retailers across Canada. Here’s a quote from the press release:
Starting today, customers can add multiple cards to their suretap wallet including a Rogers Prepaid MasterCard that can be topped up with funds for mobile payments. Also available for purchase are gift cards from leading Canadian food and beverage merchants and retailers including Swiss Chalet, Milestones Grill and Bar, Montana’s Cookhouse, Harvey’s, Kelsey’s, Indigo, Earls Restaurants, Ardene, and Spafinder Wellness 365. In the future, the suretap wallet application will offer more retailer gift cards, as well as store loyalty cards, coupons and ID cards.
Within the suretap wallet application, customers can add funds to their prepaid card, check account balances, view transaction history and use location-based features to find retailers nearby that accept contactless payments. The application is available for download on select Android and BlackBerry 10 smartphones that include near-field-communications capabilities.
This is playing in the same space as things like Passbook from Apple or Samsung Wallet from Samsung. So if you have the right phone, which unlike the two solutions that I’ve previously mentioned that are brand specific, you can keep your wallet in your pocket. Seeing as I already pay for Starbucks coffee and I get movie tickets using my iPhone 5, that works for me.
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Rogers Launches Suretap Mobile Payment System
Rogers today announced the launch of their mobile payment app, the suretap wallet. The suretap wallet, available today on a number of Android and select BlackBerry devices, lets customers use their smartphones to store payment and gift cards on one app and make mobile payments at tens of thousands of retailers across Canada. Here’s a quote from the press release:
Starting today, customers can add multiple cards to their suretap wallet including a Rogers Prepaid MasterCard that can be topped up with funds for mobile payments. Also available for purchase are gift cards from leading Canadian food and beverage merchants and retailers including Swiss Chalet, Milestones Grill and Bar, Montana’s Cookhouse, Harvey’s, Kelsey’s, Indigo, Earls Restaurants, Ardene, and Spafinder Wellness 365. In the future, the suretap wallet application will offer more retailer gift cards, as well as store loyalty cards, coupons and ID cards.
Within the suretap wallet application, customers can add funds to their prepaid card, check account balances, view transaction history and use location-based features to find retailers nearby that accept contactless payments. The application is available for download on select Android and BlackBerry 10 smartphones that include near-field-communications capabilities.
This is playing in the same space as things like Passbook from Apple or Samsung Wallet from Samsung. So if you have the right phone, which unlike the two solutions that I’ve previously mentioned that are brand specific, you can keep your wallet in your pocket. Seeing as I already pay for Starbucks coffee and I get movie tickets using my iPhone 5, that works for me.
Here’s a video that shows suretap in action:
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This entry was posted on April 11, 2014 at 2:09 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Rogers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.