Leading Pan-African payment platform Paystack has this Thursday announced the launch of a new payment option, Pay with Apple Pay, a new payment channel that let’s merchants accept international payments quickly Apply Pay users globally.
With the new option, Nigeria merchants can now accept payments from customers in the diaspora easily.
This announcement was contained in a release issued by the payment company on Thursday and sighted by Exclusive Africa.
The new pay option further expands the options for merchants in revenue collection and merchants will henceforth now be able to collect payments from Apple users across the world.
Part of the notice reads as follows:
We’re excited to announce Pay with Apple Pay — a new payment channel that lets you accept international payments quickly and securely from millions of Apple Pay users.
About Apple Pay
Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple. It enables frictionless payments that allow customers to authorise payments with Touch ID or Face ID, instead of manually filling long payment forms.
Businesses have long been able to accept international card payments with Paystack, but this integration allows Nigerian businesses to access millions of Apple Pay users in the 60+ countries where Apple Pay is supported, including the USA, UK, and Canada. In Nigeria, Paystack is the first payment gateway to support Apple Pay.
The feature is current available to only merchants in Nigeria but the company hints on it’s spread in the weeks to come.
Paystack continues to break grounds in terms of possibilities in the digital payment sector across the African continent.
