A new app allows users in stores to pay without nfc, or even without the smartphone from the pocket. The mention of the own name is enough to make a transaction in a shop to approve it. The app works only on iOS.
The app works with a function that Apple ‘geofence’ calls; the app starts, if via location services detects that you are near a store that you have added if ‘auto-tab’. The retailer can also be an iOS-device to the transaction to approve, writes in Slate, that the app has tried.
After the mention of the amount, the user need only to recall it as ‘put it on Nelson’, or ‘put it on the account of Nelson’, something that the signature or pin must be replaced. Authentication happens because the shopkeeper your face on a screen, and can recognize whether he is the right person to do. The amount is billed to a linked credit card and the app sends each transaction, and a notification.
The app with the name Card Case is made by the company Square, where, inter alia, a founder of Twitter behind it. Square previously made a credit card reader for iOS and Android. Also Card Case works on Android, but the version still needs an update to get it to work with ‘automatic tabs’. Now the phone is out of the bag to be extracted to pay.
The security of the app seems buggy; the app relies on the person behind the cash register of the store to identify a user. If the user within about 30 meters of the shop is, can anyone under his name are trying to count. Only to notice afterwards is visible that there is a transaction is done.
Another disadvantage is that it stores the service should support. Not a single Dutch store do that for now; the app works in a few shops in the U.s. city of San Francisco. When the Android-version with auto-pay is convenient, is unclear.
