Google officially introduced the payment system Android Pay in Russia. The service will start operating from may 23, 2017. It allows you to pay for purchases in stores and within apps with smartphones based on Android 4.4 and above.
To pay for the purchase in the shop will need to install the Android Pay app from Google Play and unlocked to attach the gadget to the terminal with support for NFC. For purchases of 1000 rubles cheaper unlock is not required.
Among banks-partners at time of launch — “AK BARS”, Alfa-Bank, Binbank, VTB 24, MTS Bank, Bank Otkrytie, Promsvyazbank, Raiffeisenbank, “Rocketbank”, Russian Standard Bank, Russian agricultural Bank, Sberbank, Tinkoff Bank, “Point” and Yandex.Money. In addition, Android Pay allows you to store all your discount cards, bonus cards “Magnit”, “Perekrestok”, Starbucks, KFC, Rosneft and so on.
We will remind, in the fall of 2016 in Russia earned stitch Samsung Pay, and then Apple Pay. With the launch of Android Pay contactless payments will be able to benefit not only the users of certain Samsung smartphones and other Android smartphones with NFC chip. In addition, support Android Pay appeared in smart-watch, when he released an update to Android Wear 2.0.