Some people look at Japan and see a crazy mess of cashless payment options: credit cards, iD, QUICPay, Suica, QR Code players like PayPay and Line Pay, all vying for […]
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The JAPAN CASHLESS Rebate Week 1: MiniStop Reports 6% Cashless Payment Use Increase in First Week
This is what we were waiting for. After all that hassle of getting ready for the CASHLESS rebate program, how many people were actually going to go cashless to get […]
Mobile Payments
Tokyo Cashless 2020: Blame the Japan Cashless Payments mess on VISA and EMVCo, not FeliCa
1️⃣ Dear JR East, we need a new Suica Charge App2️⃣ Consumption tax relief with the CASHLESS rebate program3️⃣ Are Apple Maps and Siri really Apple Pay level ready for […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Mobile Payments
The JAPAN CASHLESS Rebate Inflection Point
On the eve of the CASHLESS Rebate program launch I wrote: Regardless of whether the CASHLESS rebate is ‘a success’ or not, it will be a tipping point. Already I […]
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Reviews are in and it’s official: CASHLESS Rebate maps suck
Japan App Store reviews are fun to read because the Japanese write wonderfully scathing reviews. Never ‘this sucks’, but a numbing dry, oh so super dry analysis of everything wrong. […]
Mobile Payments
Consumption tax, Cashless rebates and Coffee shops
In case you are not a DOUTOR regular, you may not have noticed that they recently added QUICPay and iD to their cashless payment options. What’s interesting is that QUICPay […]