Suica 2.0 related comments and discussions are starting to appear on online forums but there are many mistaken assumptions. The assumption is any transit card system using ‘online’ processing simply does exactly what EMV does: everything from key verification to payment processing happens on a central server. Let’s take a […]
Mobile Payments
New Suica System to aid Noto Earthquake Evacuees
JR East announced they will distribute 18,000 Suica cards to all Noto Earthquake evacuees at all evacuation centers. The request came from Ishikawa Prefecture via the Japanese Digital Agency because they have a problem. Evacuees move from center to center, or stay will relatives going to evacuee centers as needed […]
Mobile Transit
Is Mobile TOICA in the cards?
Now that we have Mobile Suica, Mobile PASMO and Mobile ICOCA that represent over 90% of Transit IC group card marketshare, most people assume that’s the end of the mobile story because the other cards are too small to roll out their own mobile service. Or are they? On the […]
Help Desk
Move Suica and other transit or e-Money cards to new iPhone
Apple Pay transit cards (Suica, PASMO, and ICOCA) and e-Money cards (WAON and nanaco) are different from Apple Pay payment cards in that a transit or e-Money card prepaid stored value, the card balance, is stored locally on the card itself and can only exist on a single device. Apple […]
Mobile Payments
Forget the Suica vs EMV open loop soap opera, it’s all about loyalty program banks now
Quick, what’s the number one complaint foreigners had when they couldn’t use their foreign issue VISA cards for Apple Pay Suica recharge? Was it inconvenience? No, it was points. Specifically Chase Sapphire VISA 3x travel points. And what’s the number one compliment that foreigners have about using EMV open loop […]