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by dulse 2816 days ago
Thanks for the feedback!

Our goal for the experience is the Apple Pay OCR experience, but it's embeddable directly in apps (so users don't have to already have it set up, if they prefer to use cards, or navigate to apple pay and come back). I agree this would be for the users not using Apple Pay.

Long term, I agree the trend is moving toward apple pay and digitized payments, but I found lots of people still like / prefer credit cards (so trend is that direction, but slope isn't super high and it'll take a while). I'm also excited about the fraud benefit of this kind of solution for bigger orgs that deal with fraud.

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Make sure you test it against cards that have both valid from and valid till dates on them for some reason this still fucks the Apple Pay OCR and it’s quite common on EU at least on UK cards.

So if there are two dates assume that the more senior one is the expiry date.

Great advice, thank you! We'll make sure the date stuff works.

For EU cards, one experience I'm excited about supporting is the "tap to add" flow which may be even easier than OCR. Unfortunately only Android supports it for now, but love that experience when it's possible.

You’re google wallet is integrated with Chrome and Chrome stores CC info also separately so yeah on Android it’s a different story for users with Google play devices and those who wants to store their details in chrome/google pay at least.