Are you prepared to save your wallet and pay with your cell phone?

San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

After a year of the launch in the region of the Vanguardia of Payment Technology, called Near Field Communication (NFC), BAC Credomatic clients confirm that they are prepared to continue evolving and using their mobile phone to make their payments.

The COVID-19 crisis enhanced the payment of transactions through Android cell phones with NFC technology, which goes beyond avoiding contact with other people or objects, since this strategic tool provides security, comfort, versatility and mobility, bothFor businesses as for cardholders.

“During two0two0, in BAC Credomatic the use of digital platforms has not only been fundamental for the continuity of the service, but its use has increased.Today two out of 5 clients access our digital platforms month to month and 84% of our monetary transactions are carried out in digital channels, ”says Valeria Ríos, vice president of Marketing and Communication of BAC Credomatic Honduras.

Ríos adds that "in Honduras, card users prefer to use this means of payment in supermarkets, fast food establishments, gas stations and pharmacies, registering more than two5 thousand purchases in the last 6 months".

These figures support the reality that users of banking systems live in other parts of the world.According to a J -consultant survey.D.Power, during the first months of the pandemic,37% of customers in the United States said they use their banks more frequently.

Of plastic to the cell phone

To use this technology, what you need is:

1.Have an Android device with NFC technology, have an operating system 6.Or higher and have some method of activated unlock (password, digital footprint, facial or pattern recognition).

two.Have a Visa or Mastercard credit card by BAC Credomatic.3.Register the credit or debit card to be used for this type of transfers in mobile banking.

4.At the time of payment in the shops you must unlock the cell phone and bring it closer to the POS to make the corresponding payment.For security reasons if you do not have any blocking system, the transaction will not be carried out.

Each solution is audited, certified and authorized by global card signatures such as Visa and Mastercard, as well as by specialized companies such as PCI, which establishes a standard for financial transactions.

At the time the activation of payments from the cell phone for iPhone phones is not yet available in the region.Once Apple enable your wallet in our region we will see BAC Credomatic allow contactless payments from Apple devices.

“In BAC Credomatic we are committed to continuously improve the experience of our clients, innovate, be agile and increasingly digital. Por eso durante este two0two1 realizaremos grandes esfuerzos en todo lo relacionado a medios de pago, fortaleciendo el servicio de retiros sin tarjeta y adaptando los pagos de persona a persona y persona a comercio para hacerlos cada vez más simples y eficientes”, finaliza Ríos.

Live the improved contact experience BAC CREDOMATIC using only your cell phone!