Samsung India has rolled out a major update to the Samsung Pay app, which will enable users to pay monthly utility bills within the app itself. The addition comes soon after Google added bill payments feature (coming soon) to its Tez app.
Samsung Pay now supports payment of mobile postpaid, electricity, DTH and utility bills. In the updated Samsung Pay app now you'll see a new 'Pay Bills' option on the home screen. Then you have to add various service providers.
The mobile postpaid companies supported include Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Tata Docomo and Vodafone. DTH subscribers can pay bill for operators including Airtel Digital TV, Sun Direct, Tata Sky and Dish TV. In case of electricity bills Samsung Pay supports BEST Mumbai, BSES, Maharashtra State Electricty Distribution, Tata Power, Reliance Energy and Noida Power.
For broadband bills, Samsung Pay is supported by ACT Fibernet, BSNL, Connect and MTNL Delhi Broadband, while landline payments include BSNL, Airtel and MTNL.
Once you have added the services, the app will alert you when the respective bill is generated. The bill payment is highlighted on the Pay Bills page along with due date. You can even add reminders for the bills whether it is daily, weekly or monthly.
In addition, Samsung Pay will now let you save bank account of your friends and family in UPI, to make it easier to transfer money. Lastly, the update also brings the option to add money to mobile wallet services like Paytm, Mobiwik and more from saved credit and debit cards.
The update carrying the new features weighs in at 80MB in size. To get it, open the Samsung Pay app, tap on the three dots on the top right, then Settings >> About Samsung Pay >> Update. Currently Samsung Pay is supported only on select Samsung's Galaxy A, Galaxy S and Galaxy Note models.
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Samsung's mobile payment platform Samsung Pay launched in India last month. At launch the South Korean tech giant, said that the company was testing Unified Payments Interface (UPI) integration and the support will be added soon.
Now, the UPI support for Samsung Pay has gone live, allowing Samsung device users to make payments from their bank accounts.
How it works? Select UPI in the main screen of Samsung Pay, and tap on 'Add' to add your bank account. You can create your own "Payment address" in Samsung's UPI app and link your bank account, which is registered with your mobile number, following which you can transfer money.
For the uninitiated, UPI is a payment system that lets you transfer money between any two bank accounts by using a smartphone. Users will not have to type card details, IFSC code or net banking/wallet passwords, making the transfer of money easier.
Samsung Pay is currently compatible with select Samsung Galaxy Smartphones including Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy Note5, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy A5 (2017), Galaxy A7 (2017) Galaxy A5 (2016) and Galaxy A7 (2016). The recently launched Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ will also get Samsung Pay support upon its release on May 5.
Besides UPI, Samsung Pay also works with most of the credit and debit cards, and digital wallets like PayTm. To make a payment, the user should open the Samsung Pay app on his/her smartphone, select the payment option, and authenticate the purchase using a pin or fingerprint scanner, and then place the phone near the machines at a PoS terminal. The service supports both NFC and MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology.
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Samsung is finally launching services of its mobile payment platform, Samsung Pay in India. Users who had signed up for early access can now set up their Samsung Pay account and start using it to make payment via their devices.
Currently Samsung Pay works with Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note5, Galaxy A7 (2016) and Galaxy A5 (2016). The Galaxy A5 (2017) and A7 (2017), that launched in India earlier today will also get support for Samsung Pay soon. It is not known, Samsung plans to add older devices to the list.
Samsung Pay supports MasterCard or VISA debit and credit cards issued by Axis, HDFC, ICICI, SBI* and Standard Chartered banks (*SBI only credit cards are supported for now). The service will soon start supporting cards from American Express and Citibank as well. Additionally, users can also add their PayTm wallet accounts in the Samsung Pay app.
The Samsung Pay was launched back in August 2015, and uses Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) and Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies, to let users make contactless payments at PoS terminals.
Samsung finally announced the launch of its native mobile payment service, Samsung Pay. It will go live in Korea on August 20 and in the U.S on September 28. Samsung also plans to make the service available in United Kingdom, Spain and China in the near future.
Samsung has partnered with American Express,
Master Card, Visa major banks including Bank Of America, Chase, U.S
Bank and other.
To make a payment via Samsung Pay, users have simply to swipe up on
their Samsung smartphone, scan their fingerprint and pay. It uses
tokenization Samsung Knox and fingerprint authentication to provide
secure payments. Samsung's Mobile payment system comes equipped with
Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) and Near Field Communication (NFC)
and works with most existing point-of-sale (POS) terminals. Samsung Pay
is the first to support contactless payment for store-branded credit
cards.
The service will be pre-loaded on select Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5 and a free software upgrade will be rolled out mid-August, to enable Samsung Pay on Galaxy S6 and S6 edge in the U.S and Korea. Select U.S users of Galaxy S6, S6 edge, Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ will be able to participate in a beta trail from August 25.
