Garmin Pay: When will I be able to buy oat milk with my watch?

You’ll need a PIN.

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What a revolutionary idea :bulb: seriously. You are on to something.

After that… McDonald’s pay? :yum:

+1 from me for Garmin Pay - you can beat the other banks to the punch on this one seeing as how only one bank is supported at the moment!

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So Danske bank supports Garmin Pay but not Android Pay?
I used to be with Danske bank and Android Pay wasn’t supported.

Hopefully after the ApplePay hurdle then maybe it will be a smoother road to support all the other Pays, Badger included!

To be honest I think Garmin Pay would be an incredibly niche feature used by a very tiny proportion of our user base. It makes it quite difficult to justify the colossal engineering effort it would require to implement.

Never say never, but it’s not on our roadmap right now!

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Do these types of payment methods have any overlap in the way they are implemented. I always imagined android pay and Apple pay etc were basically the same tech and software in the background.

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Garmin watches are a much more preferable solution than Apple Watch.
I understand that audience is smaller than Apple/Android ones.
But please add this feature, as soon as you can!

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This feature should not be “that” difficult.
Have a look here:
https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/
5 UK banks, almost all Russian major banks (the country I’m from)

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Wow, it was only one UK bank last week! Thanks for the update!

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I see Starling Bank now support Garmin Pay. I guess it depends on how much effort. There are a lot of Garmin watches out there.

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One more comment. This could be a competition thing. I’ve been a loyal customer of Monzo but see a competitor offering similar features plus I have a Garmin watch. I’m disappointed to hear it is not even on your roadmap. Hope you folks will reconsider.

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I use Starling daily now due to Garmin Pay support. It’s Monzo’s choice but to think about supporting it yet but all I know is that part of my use of Monzo now goes to Starling :man_shrugging:

It’s great that we have all these awesome banking options these days!

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I saw this and thought Garmin Pay was here!

When is Garmin Pay coming?

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The payment processing side is the same, but provisioning is different for each solution. Once a card is provisioned, payments will use the same system they originally built for Google Pay (and that currently powers Apple Pay too), but the provisioning part is unique to each solution - sadly nobody wants to settle on an universal API.

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Something tells me it would be Apple who dig their heels in regarding this. They don’t seem to like sharing much!

Well Google and Samsung aren’t much better in that regard.

I know Apple would never open up, but if at least Google did it then we wouldn’t have Samsung, Garmin & Fitbit Pay and they would all just use Google’s.

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+1 Garmin Pay

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From Starling’s website
“Can I use other devices to pay with my Starling debit card?

Absolutely. We want to connect to all the latest technology so that more customers can use their smartphone and wearable devices as a fast and secure way to pay with Starling. We’re making money on the go easy. So far, Starling customers can connect to:

Apple Pay
Google Pay
Samsung Pay
FitBit Pay”

Looks like Starling’s strategy is different from Monzo. They are supporting all wallet types.

Going to give them a look. They also offer interest rates on their current account and free unlimited cash withdrawals abroad.

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And Garmin Pay!

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