GarminPay Italia sportwatch Garmin

GarminPay, the payment platform of Garmin, arrives in Italy on the sportwatch of the company.

The payment platform GarminPay also officially arrives in Italy within the company sportswatches equipped with NFC technology support. This means that the owners of these wearables can configure the service to pay by bringing the sportwatch to a POS compatible with the service. In Italy, GarminPay works with Mastercard BNL or Hello bank! Credit Cards

The use of this payment platform is very simple. By connecting to the Garmin Connect portal, users will be able to save their credit card details compatible with the service on the watch. You can pay for coffee at the bar, grocery store and any purchases made. GarminPay allows payments that do not exceed the maximum cost limit set by your card, without bank charges. No problem on the security source

In addition to the clbadic banking security protocols, GarminPay activates precise formulas to protect the user who uses it. For example, before confirming and making a payment with your sportwatch, you are prompted to enter a secret code, the pbadword previously set in the Garmin Connect app when you have it. registering the credit card. Thanks to the accelerometer built-in Garmin handheld devices, every time you remove the watch from your wrist, or disable the Elevate cardio function the function is locked automatically allowing no operation, only possible after entering the same pbadword . This will also be required by default after each midnight, to ensure that the cardholder is the one using GarminPay.

Users can easily activate payments within their Garmin sportwatch via the Garmin Connect app. Once activated, you can choose GarminPay and set the 4-digit pbadword when creating the wallet that will be used for purchases. Users can add a Mastercard credit card to their wallet by entering data or using the smartphone's camera scan to manually enter the rest of the required data. The wallet can be managed from the Control menu of your watch whenever you want to make a payment. If you have already entered your 4-digit pbadword, you can make a payment immediately using your last used card.

Once the payment is completed, with a green check mark in the positive symbol or a red X symbol in case of non-payment, and in any event after 60 seconds that the Wallet is in POS search mode, the function NFC will be disabled for security reasons.