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Reputation: 11

iOS NFC-enabled Passes for payments solutions

Our team is developing a payment infrastructure that provides for payment via smartphone with NFC technology.

For Android no problem as we used HCE; while as far as iOS is concerned we have come to the conclusion that the best solution, given the strong limits on NFC technology imposed by Apple, is the use of NFC-enabled Passes.

We have collected several information unfortunately very fragmented as on the net and on the Apple documentation itself not there is a lot of space on the deepening of this type of Pass. I know the implementation is under NDA, but we need to understand which way follow in order to at least start the tests.

With regard to the above, I list the points that are vital for the continuation of the work:

  1. We have already requested the NFC certificate through the appropriate form but we have not received any response yet. There is a way, a particular form that the request must have or a sum to be paid so that the request for the certificate can be processed faster?

  2. When the certificate is obtained, how should it be used? As already mentioned, the implementation is protected by NDA, in fact I was interested understand who I should talk to or how to get Apple's documentation.

I thank in advance to those who know how to answer these doubts.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1299

Answers (1)

Tomas McGuinness
Tomas McGuinness

Reputation: 7691

You are right, the entire process is under NDA.

I applied, like yourself and also reached out to a Developer Evangilist in Apple. I was told that the process was outside of their control and that you just had to be patient.

When you get the certificate from Apple, it will include an entitlement that enables the NFC support. I believe you just use the cert as normal when creating the pkpass bundle.

As I understand it, Apple will provide all the instructions to you if they approve your NFC request.

You can embed information within the pass that is sent via the NFC tag.

I’m afraid I can’t be more helpful.

Upvotes: 2

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