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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Google was the first, in 2011, to enable contactless payments via their mobile app. Train staff To achieve the smooth process promised by contactless card or mobile payments, staff must know how to use and troubleshoot the system. Tapping their phone to a terminal proved far more exciting than tapping the card.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: And so, a lot of people that were doing computer science in Williamstown were thinking about startups back even in the late nineties.