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If the credit card does not have any numbers on it, how do you make purchases online on sites that don’t directly accept Apple Pay? Does the Wallet app on your

If the credit card does not have any numbers on it, how do you make purchases online on sites that don’t directly accept Apple Pay? Does the Wallet app on your iPhone generate virtual card numbers on request that you can use online? Or are you only allowed to use it at websites that explicitly accept Apple Pay? I read through all the official Apple PR stuff and the fine print, don’t see any mention of this.

OkGoDoIt 8y ago
Another thing to note about having no numbers, I sometimes volunteer to run the box office at a local theater, and we have a little Square reader that only accepts magstrips. But often it doesn’t seem to work properly, so I end up typing the numbers in manually in the Square app. I know it’s not ideal, but when you’ve got 10 people in line you just need to get it moving somehow. How would a store employee deal with a card having no numbers in this situation?
- trillic 8y ago
  If you're using Square/Stripe they should just be using Apple Pay anyways it's more secure. If the consumer doesn't have or understand that option I'd recommend they pull up the card number in the app. I use an online-only bank and with my phone and laptop in my pockets it'd probably take me about the same amount of time to pull out a credit card as it would to open my bank app with TouchID. I had a card that won't swipe pretty frequently, after having to have my number typed or to produce a new card for the 3rd time I finally just reported mine broken and a new one was overnighted to me. I've always thought that its the customers burden to produce a working payment method. If I got skipped in line because my card didn't work I'd have no problems letting someone else go ahead of me while I fumbled around with my phone and wallet.
jbombadil 8y ago
I think in the streaming it was mentioned "If you need those, they are available on the app". So I assume if you need those details, you open the wallet app on your phone and you can see the numbers, name, etc. and use it as a regular card.
- OkGoDoIt 8y ago
  Thank you. I haven’t had a chance to watch the actual stream, but that’s kind of how I assumed it would work. I was just a bit worried given that it’s Apple and they might feel like this is an opportunity to push their Apple Pay API.
yep8883 8y ago
(You can generate one, though, if you plan to buy something from a site that does not yet support Apple Card but takes 16-digit credit card information.)
usaphp 8y ago
They said you can see the number in your wallet app

OkGoDoIt 8y ago

Another thing to note about having no numbers, I sometimes volunteer to run the box office at a local theater, and we have a little Square reader that only accepts magstrips. But often it doesn’t seem to work properly, so I end up typing the numbers in manually in the Square app. I know it’s not ideal, but when you’ve got 10 people in line you just need to get it moving somehow. How would a store employee deal with a card having no numbers in this situation?

trillic 8y ago
If you're using Square/Stripe they should just be using Apple Pay anyways it's more secure. If the consumer doesn't have or understand that option I'd recommend they pull up the card number in the app. I use an online-only bank and with my phone and laptop in my pockets it'd probably take me about the same amount of time to pull out a credit card as it would to open my bank app with TouchID. I had a card that won't swipe pretty frequently, after having to have my number typed or to produce a new card for the 3rd time I finally just reported mine broken and a new one was overnighted to me. I've always thought that its the customers burden to produce a working payment method. If I got skipped in line because my card didn't work I'd have no problems letting someone else go ahead of me while I fumbled around with my phone and wallet.

jbombadil 8y ago

I think in the streaming it was mentioned "If you need those, they are available on the app". So I assume if you need those details, you open the wallet app on your phone and you can see the numbers, name, etc. and use it as a regular card.

OkGoDoIt 8y ago
Thank you. I haven’t had a chance to watch the actual stream, but that’s kind of how I assumed it would work. I was just a bit worried given that it’s Apple and they might feel like this is an opportunity to push their Apple Pay API.

yep8883 8y ago

(You can generate one, though, if you plan to buy something from a site that does not yet support Apple Card but takes 16-digit credit card information.)

usaphp 8y ago

They said you can see the number in your wallet app