Android payments now available across Poland

Google announced on Thursday that contact-free payments are to be available throughout Poland. Polish customers of stores including Rossmann, Starbucks and Costa Coffee, among others, will be able to pay for products and services using their smartphones – effective immediately in approximately 400,000 outlets throughout the country, although the company indicated that the new payment system would be rolled out to additional shops in the coming weeks. The process is receiving support from Visa, MasterCard, and T-Mobile, as well as banks that include Bank Zachodni WBK and Alior Bank, with mBank coming on board soon, the report said. Google’s head of payment product, Pali Bhat said, “Android Pay will also let you breeze through checkout when you shop in your favourite mobile apps…look for the Android Pay purchase button when the feature launches soon in apps like Allegro, Fancy, iTaxi.pl and Uber, with many more to come. We’ve teamed up with many leading payment platforms, processors and technology providers such as Braintree and First Data to make it even easier to accept Android Pay in stores and apps.”