Samsung announces a partnership with Viva Wallet

Samsung e Viva Wallet have announced a new and incredible partnership which will provide users with innovative new opportunities for make e receive payments. Starting today, neobank Viva Wallet customers will be able to accept payments both in-store and online via Samsung Pay.

Let’s find out all the details together.

The partnership between Viva Wallet and Samsung

Now all users who own a Samsung smartphone will be able to, through Samsung Pay, scan to your mobile device credit cards, from debt e prepaid, in complete safety. They will be able to pay quickly and easily using technology “Near Field Communication” (NFC).

After registered credentials of your account e added your credit card, payment is made in seconds. All you have to do is select your credit card to use, if you have more than one, use the preferred identification mode (fingerprint, iris, pin) and bring the smartphone close to the POS.

Thanks to the new partnership, the merchants who use Smart Checkout – the innovative payment solution of Viva Wallet – will therefore be able to leverage a new payment service. They will also be able to take advantage of the compatibility of Samsung Pay con Tap on Phone, the exclusive Viva Wallet feature that allows you to turn Android smartphones into a mobile card terminal.

This feature will allow sellers to accept payments wherever they are.

The comments of the companies

Paolo Bagnoli, the Head of Marketing of Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics Italia, said:

Our goal with Samsung Pay, as with all of our technologies, is to make people’s lives easier by allowing them to innovate some aspects of their daily lives. In Italy, the use of smartphones and wearable devices for payments is growing rapidly: according to the latest Innovative Payments Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, in 2020 payments with these tools in store grew by 80% compared to the year previous year, reaching 3.4 billion euros with an average transaction of around 35 €. Thanks to the new partnership with Viva Wallet, we are therefore excited to offer our customers even more opportunities to simply pay on the go.

Also Giannis Vlassiou, the Head of Acquiring of Viva Wallet, said the company is excited about this partnership with Samsung Pay. According to Vlassiou this collaboration will bring added value to customers who use their Smart Checkout ecommerce solution for their online store.

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