Costa launches Android Pay
The coffee shop chain will now offer customers the ability to pay for their food and drink with their Android phone.
The launch of Android Pay in Costa’s UK stores provides an additional payment method that will help increase the speed of transactions and give mobile payment options to almost the whole UK phone market.
To ensure customers safety and security, no actual card numbers are stored on the device when a credit or debit card is added to Android Pay. Instead a virtual account number represents account information so that customer’s card details stay safe.
Jon Fisher, Head of Mobile and Loyalty at Costa said, “Costa is committed to finding new and innovative ways to improve the customer experience. The decision to work with Google to roll out Android Pay was an obvious choice. We currently provide other contactless payment methods across the majority of our UK stores, so offering Android Pay will give customers even more choice when it comes to payment”.
Spencer Spinnell, Director of Business Development at Google added, “We want to make in-store payments simpler for everyone, so we've worked with Costa to enable Android Pay in the majority of their UK locations. This adds to the list of almost 460,000 contactless payment terminals in the UK where people can seamlessly tap and pay with their Android phones".
Android Pay users will continue to receive all of the rewards and benefits offered by credit and debit cards.
