Samsung Pay is a digital wallet platform for Android smartphones, allowing you to authorize an online payment. A customer can accept online payments through Samsung Pay with their Samsung device.
Some of the main benefits of offering Samsung Pay as a payment method are:
Safe & Secure: Samsung Pay does not send the user’s debit or credit card number with your payment. Instead, a unique Token number is used to represent the actual card. So, the card details always stay safe
Easy to use: No need for the users to carry credit or debit cards. They should have installed only the Samsung App on their mobile
Availability: Samsung Pay works almost everywhere contactless payments can be accepted.
➡️Important details
How to activate: All merchants are activated by default to accept payments for Samsung Pay.
Payment method type: Synchronous - payments are confirmed immediately
Refunds: Supports partial and full refunds. You can find more information by visiting developer.viva.com. From the left-hand menu, select Tutorials → Payments → Issue a refund.
Recurring payments: Supports recurring payments. You can find more information by visiting developer.viva.com. From the left-hand menu, select Tutorials → Payments → Create a recurring payment.
Pre-authorizations: Supports pre-authorizations. You can find more information by visiting developer.viva.com. From the left-hand menu, select Tutorials → Payments → Handle pre-authorizations.
Restricted MCC: All Merchant Categories are eligible to have Samsung Pay activated
Supported Payment Methods: Please refer to the relevant country-specific Samsung Pay site (above) for further information
Supported Devices: Please refer to the ‘Which products is Samsung Pay available on?’ tab within the Samsung Pay FAQs
Pricing: Please refer to our Pricing page under the main navigation for more information. You can find the Pricing page by visiting Viva.com, scrolling to the bottom of the page and selecting Pricing under Resources.
Settlement: Customer payments are deposited the next day into your business account for confirmed payments / successful transactions.
Cross-currency payments: Not yet supported
User Experience
User Experience
At the checkout, the customer selects the Samsung Pay button at the top of the screen
The customer then signs into their Samsung account
The customer selects their payment card before completing the payment
➡️Supported card networks
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Maestro
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➡️Testing Samsung Pay
In order to test Samsung Pay functionality in the demo environment, please see our Samsung Pay testing information. You can find more information by visiting developer.viva.com. From the left-hand menu, select Integration reference → Test cards and environments.