With a debit card contactless payment - you should know
- With your debit card, contactless payments can, you need a NFCChip. This Chip provides the newest way of communication between your card and the reading device of the super market or the point of sale. Behind NFC is the abbreviation of "Near Field Communication is". Modern smart phones have this kind of communication.
- Note: If your card has a NFC Chip, you will see a Wireless sign, how do you know it from the wireless display of your smartphone. Alternatively, the word "paypass points" on a NFC Chip. If these symbols are missing for you, ask your Bank branch for a new card.
- Once you are closer than four inches with your card on the reader, can pay by EC-card take place.
- In the case of contactless payment, there are no financial limits. Only from an amount of more than 25 euros, you will need to confirm with the cards-PIN or signature your payment. You also safeguards from thieves who want to making purchases with the stolen debit card.
- Still, you can't pay everywhere contactless, the reader must be equipped with devices according to, or replaced. Where it is not already possible, be made by appropriate instructions to the cashier's attention. It also happens that the cashier and the cashier take the card and the reader, as they have the card always plugged in.
- If you want to keep the card itself in front of the reader, pay attention to the specially marked areas. It is only there that the transaction can be carried out also really.
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