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Hi everyone thanks for sharing this suggestion. This is being discussed although I do not have a firm commitment or timeline at the moment. Do continue to vote for this feature suggestion whilst it’s under consideration. Please note that if something is under consideration and chosen for development, it can be a while until it's released or until I have any news to share. Please watch this space for any updates! Thanks for your patience.
No need to negotiate with banks, like in other countries. Just work with Bancontact Company, the nation wide payment system.
I have the Bancontact app installed on my NRC phone, and placed all my bank cards on the app. It works for all payment terminals in Belgium that accept NRC. Even for banks without NRC cards themselves.
Fitbitpay just needs to work with Bancontact to use their already well established network with the NRC payment terminals, instead of having to negotiate with every single bank to have a direct payment from the bank. Makes sense?
Would be so great and an extra motivation to buy the fitbit devices that support fitbit pay ! BNP Paribas already supports google and apple pay! So fitbit pay is hopefully possible in the near future.
Hey all! Thought I’d share some potentially useful knowledge here.
– ApplePaylaunchedhere a couple of weeks ago, and there’s an apparent exclusivityperiodforasinglebank. Otherbanksareeagertocompensate for this, PR-wise. Due to this dynamic, KBCrecentlyintroducedsupportforGarminPay. It’s a reasonable assumption that they’re currently open to supporting Fitbit Pay as well.
– Additional thought regarding KBC specifically: this is a Belgian bank with a couple of international branches. The IrishbranchalreadyhappenstoofferFitbitPay! So this bank in particular likely has the technical means in place already.
– Or as others here have pointed out: a different strategy would be to partnerwithacardnetworkratherthanbanks in Belgium. Every debit card in Belgium implements Bancontact (from the Bancontact Company) and Maestro (from MasterCard). I haven’t encountered a single debit card in Belgium that does not implement both payment networks. So as pointed out before, this offers a great opportunity to roll out support for pretty much every Belgian Fitbit user in one fell swoop. Both payment networks support tokenized payments through NFC terminals.
Hope to see this roll out soon for KBC, Bancontact or Maestro! Contactless payments are picking up significant mindshare here since Apple entered the market, and Fitbit users want to get in on the fun! 🙂
Cool, nice catch! The quoted comment does sound somewhat generic though, hope this isn’t just a boilerplate answer…
In general: I don’t get why Fitbit insists on using Apple’s playbook in terms of maintaining absolute secrecy of rollouts and new partnerships until they launch – even for the international rollout of an *existing* service. Surely it doesn’t hurt anyone to keep users in the loop about international rollout of an existing service? As a matter of fact, it would likely drive additional local press coverage which is basically free advertising.
Whatever, end of rant. I hope we’ll see movement soon.
Good news: the Wallet tile has started showing up for me today on the Ionic screen of the Fitbit iOS app! My girlfriend is seeing the same with her Versa.
Unfortunately no luck yet adding any of my cards (Maestro and MasterCard from KBC and Belfius). No movement on Fitbit’s list of partner banks yet either. But I guess this could be a sign of things to come. Fingers crossed!
If anyone here manages to add a card from a different bank, don’t forget to tell us here! 🙂
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