Huawei Pay is accepted at all merchants who offer Zapper as a payment method, including SA’s most popular stores and restaurants. You are able to use all local credit and debit cards with Huawei Pay.

Here’s all you need to know about this new digital wallet from Huawei:

What phones support Huawei Pay? 

Huawei Wallet works on all Huawei phones and can be downloaded from Huawei AppGallery.

How do I use Huawei Pay?

1. Download Huawei Wallet from HUAWEI AppGallery.
2. Load your bank cards onto the Huawei Wallet app.
3. Go to your favourite store and have your purchases rung up at the till.
4. Scan the Zapper QR code that appears on the bill and pay!
5. You will receive a notification from the app that your transaction has gone through.

Are my payments secure?

Absolutely! Huawei Pay receives the same fraud protection as you get on your bank cards. In addition:

• Every transaction has to be authenticated by your passcode or fingerprint. 
• Huawei Pay doesn’t use your bank card numbers to handle transactions.
• Your bank card numbers are not stored on your Huawei device or on Huawei Pay servers.
• Your bank card numbers are not shared with merchants. 
• Your information is kept private, as Huawei does not keep the transaction details. 

Although the tap-to-pay function for Huawei Pay is not yet available in SA, it will be soon, so Huawei users should keep an eye out!

To start your Huawei Pay journey now, simply download Huawei Wallet from HUAWEI AppGallery. 

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Messenger is the company’s messaging app that is (obviously) integrated with Facebook. Honestly, we’ve never felt the need to send money to anyone using this platform, but obviously someone at Facebook did. The Facebook Pay feature isn’t linked to Facebook’s crypto-wallet Calibra or its currency, Libra. It’s more like Google Pay or Apple Pay — a digital payment method. Not a currency. 

Gimme the money

Facebook also plans to roll it out for use in both Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook Pay allows users to add a debit or credit card to Facebook Pay — after which users choose in which apps they’d like to use it. The service will be available on Facebook and Messenger to pay for fundraisers, in-game purchases, event tickets, person-to-person payments, and selected pages on Facebook Marketplace. 

Hopefully, the company realises that it’s going up against digital payment heavy hitters — especially in the Western world. Services like Venmo, Google Pay, and Apple Pay already dominate in this sector, while there are smaller services from the likes of our own FNB, Samsung, Garmin and Fitbit helping to suck the oxygen out of the room. And what with Apple launching an actual credit card… Facebook’s gonna have to build up more user trust for this service to really work. 

Luckily South Africans don’t have that problem… yet. We’ll see how Americans react to the service before it even comes to the rest of the world. It will definitely bring the company closer to Mark Zuckerberg‘s vision of marrying all of Facebook‘s apps. But it’s too early to tell if rolling it out across the entire stable is a good idea for the company.

Source: Facebook Blog

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