Apple Tap to Pay on iPhone in the Netherlands

Apple has announced that businesses across the Netherlands can now accept contactless payments in person via Tap to Pay on iPhone. This enables millions of merchants, from small to large businesses, to use their iPhone to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets. All they need to do this is their iPhone and a partner iOS app – no additional hardware or payment terminal is required.

Tap to Pay on iPhone
Tap to Pay on iPhone is available for payment platforms and app developers in the Netherlands to integrate into their iOS apps and offer as a payment acceptance option to their business customers. Adyen and SumUp are the first payment platforms to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone to their Dutch business customers, and Klearly, myPOS, Pay, Rabobank, Revolut, Stripe, Viva Wallet and Worldline will soon follow. Adyen has partnered with NewStore and New Black to support a wide range of businesses, including cosmetics brand Rituals. Tap to Pay on iPhone will also be rolled out to Apple Store locations in the Netherlands in the coming weeks.

Contactless payments
Tap to Pay on iPhone allows merchants to accept contactless payments through a supporting iOS app on an iPhone Xs or later running the latest iOS version. At checkout, the retailer simply asks the customer to bring their iPhone or Apple Watch with Apple Pay, contactless credit card, or other digital wallet near the retailer’s iPhone to pay, and the payment is completed securely using NFC -technology. No additional hardware is required to accept contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone, so businesses in the Netherlands can accept payments from anywhere they do business. Apple Pay is already accepted at more than 99 percent of Dutch retailers and with this new option, almost every company, large or small, can use Tap to Pay on iPhone at the checkout.

Privacy
Privacy is fundamental to the design and development of all of Apple’s payment features. With Tap to Pay on iPhone, customers’ payment information is protected by the same technology that makes Apple Pay private and secure. All transactions with Tap to Pay on iPhone are encrypted and processed using the Secure Element. As with Apple Pay, Apple doesn’t know what is being bought or who is buying it.

Cooperation
Apple is working closely with leading payment platforms and app developers in the payment and commerce industry to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone in the Netherlands. Tap to Pay on iPhone complements and extends the comprehensive suite of payment and commerce tools that payment platforms and app developers offer their customers to help them run and grow their businesses. Tap to Pay on iPhone works with contactless credit and debit cards from leading payment networks, including American Express, Mastercard, and Visa.
“Tap to Pay on the iPhone has already proven to be a game changer in the US,” said Roelant Prins, Chief Commercial Officer at Adyen. “We are now excited to be one of the first to bring Tap to Pay on iPhone to our home country – the Netherlands. Since its launch in the US last year, we have seen many enterprise retailers use Tap to Pay to go fully mobile and contactless. accept payments anywhere in the store, as well as outside of it, at events and pop-ups. By using only an iPhone to complete purchases quickly and securely, merchants have more time to engage with their customers in a meaningful way .”
“We are very pleased to partner with Apple to enable Tap to Pay on iPhone in the Netherlands. Our Sumup merchants will benefit from a new dimension of flexibility through a simple, safe and secure payment solution that enables instant acceptance of payments. offers without additional hardware costs,” said Michael Schrezenmaier, CEO Europe of SumUp. “In just minutes, businesses of all sizes can seamlessly and securely accept contactless payments on their iPhone by downloading the SumUp app for free. With many of our merchants operating in dynamic environments, this feature is truly groundbreaking and we believe that Tap to Pay on iPhone will revolutionize the way businesses interact with customers for years to come.”
“We are proud that Rituals is one of the pioneers in introducing Tap to Pay on iPhone in the Netherlands,” said Lucas van Eeghen, member of the Executive Board at Rituals. “For us, Tap to Pay on iPhone is a great opportunity to reduce peak pressure and streamline the shopper experience in our stores.”