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Justin Herrick
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It’s pretty clear that Samsung Pay is the best mobile payments service in the world. Samsung’s solution for buying things with your phone is supported just about anywhere because of its ability to work with old and new terminals at checkout. Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, in addition to last year’s flagships, have both NFC and MST technology to allow Samsung Pay to be supported by more merchants than Apple Pay and Android Pay.
Want to start using Samsung Pay wherever you shop? Let’s get it set up on your phone.
The requirements for Samsung Pay to be used come down to device, carrier, and bank/issuer support. While you can read a full list of support, I’ve included a brief overview of what you’ll need.
Supported devices:
Supported carriers:
- AT&T
- Cricket Wireless
- MetroPCS
- Sprint
- T-Mobile
- Verizon
- U.S. Cellular
Supported banks/issuers:
- Bank of America
- Citi
- Chase
- U.S. Bank
- American Express
- Wells Fargo
Now it’s time to launch Samsung Pay on your phone.
- Every time you open the app on your phone, Samsung Pay will display all of the credit and debit cards you’ve added. It basically becomes a digital wallet for the items you’d normally store in your real, physical wallet or bag. To add a card, select Add at the top right of the screen. Samsung Pay will bring up a scanner where you can just have the phone see your card, scan it for information, and automatically put the details on a form. If you’re worried about a camera seeing your card, you can enter everything manually. Even when using the scanner, Samsung still asks that you check over the form and enter a security code.
- Since sensitive information is being handled, you need to verify that the card being added actually belongs to you. Samsung Pay will present you with three options to verify your card. The best options are to have a security code sent to your phone or email, but Samsung Pay also allows you to call the bank. Unless you have nothing better to do with your time, I wouldn’t call the bank. Plus, the security code is sent to you in less than 10 seconds.
- Finishing off the verification process is the signing of your name in the space provided. Merchants might ask that you show them this signature to prove that a card belongs to you.
- The Card details screen, which can be viewed by selecting a card after launching Samsung Pay, shows multiple things. It’s where you can see your card in digital form, the card number and digital card number, and transactions the card has been used for. At the bottom of this screen, Samsung Pay has quick access to your bank’s customer service department; therefore, if you experience any issues, you can call your bank, visit its website, or head into the official app.
- Adding gift cards to Samsung Pay works in the exact same way, but Samsung lets you purchase gift cards as well.
- The More button leads to different areas of the mobile payments service. Events tells you what promotions Samsung has going on. In the past, Samsung gave users of Samsung Pay a free wireless charger. The most recent promotion gives a free $30 gift card to anyone who uses Samsung Pay by March 31. And you don’t have to constantly check what promotions are going on because Samsung will send you a notification when they start and end. Announcements, as you probably assumed, tells you what’s new with Samsung Pay. Any overall changes can be made in Settings.
- The feature that I firmly believe everyone using Samsung Pay should absolutely turn on is Simple Pay, which enables you to access cards without having the app opened. Android Pay, at least for me, isn’t all that useful because I have to be in the app to use it. With Simple Pay, I can use Samsung Pay even when my phone’s display is off. Cards are accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the display on the home screen, lock screen, and ‘off’ screen.
See? That wasn’t so hard. Setting up Samsung Pay is as easy as using it. The next time you’re out shopping, just give it a try. Swipe up from the bottom of the display and your card will appear. Then use your fingerprint or input a PIN to give Samsung Pay the green light to submit payment information at checkout. You’ll get whatever it is that you bought and walk away in less time than it takes to sift through your wallet for cash or cards to hand over.
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