ING bank for Australia Fitbit pay

Please add ING bank, it's pretty popular here in Australia. 

 

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Skarn
First Steps

I would like to also use Fitbit with my 'go-to' credit card from ING.

Is it true from other comments that Fitbit will not enable Visa services because of a contract with Mastercard to prevent them?

All I can do is roll my eyes and say 'typical' if this is true. Prove it's not shallow shilling, work it out with ING.

Callan01
Stepping Up

Long time Fitbit Fan but have never used the fitbit pay function after many years as I'm also with ING and think this would be a huge benefit!

sly_gryphon
Jogger

@Skarn there was one person who posted some garbage about MC/Visa, which is obviously wrong, as the FitBit page lists multiple banks of both types: https://www.fitbit.com/au/fitbit-pay/banks


Skarn
First Steps
Cool, but then... no support for us regardless. I wonder why it's not able
to work with ING. I can use Android phone NFC. Is Fitbit using a different
technology?
sly_gryphon
Jogger

@Skarn I'm pretty sure all the systems (apple pay, android pay, etc) use NFC, I'm not sure what the commercial/legal arrangements are between the different providers. If you try to enter your ING card number in Fitbit it simply says not supported.

It is probably worth pushing from both sides, so I also sent a request into ING. If enough people do that, it might get a higher priority.

Seeing as Fitbit already has the major 4 banks, adding more is probably not a high priority, so I think it would have to be ING that does the work to get onto the system. From the list, the first 12 are in alphabetical order, so probably the initial launch, with then a few added afterwards.

The FAQ on Fitbit also suggests if your bank is supported you could look at one of the neobanks that you could use to link (Revolut, 86400, etc). I'm going to look into setting up 86400.

JenBNE
Jogger

New to Fitbit and newly disappointed with the pay feature.

The 2 banks we use are both not supported. As a long term user of Apple products, I naively thought things would ‘just work’ with Fitbit and it didn’t occur to me that my banks (especially ING) wouldn’t be supported.

 

For the time being, the pay feature on my Charge 4 is useless to me. Please broaden your banking partners!

angelus-flere
First Steps

Please add ING! I still have to cart my phone around everywhere to use Apple Pay. Please help us ING customers to cut another of Apple’s strings! 

epruby
First Steps

YES, please bring ING to FitBit!!!

Flickcine
First Steps

Just got my first smart watch and was seriously looking forward to the convenience of paying on my watch. PLEASE bring ING to FitBit! 

Yogibob70
First Steps

Are we any closer? Would love ING to be added

maryarose
First Steps

I don't understand why ING can't be used. There must be a reason. It's very inconvenient when ING is your only bank. Why?

snowyhagen
First Steps
Fitbit refuse to explain their position.

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Filipa94
First Steps
I have messaged ING and asked and they said there are no plans to join up
with fitbit pay but they have suggested it to the head office
Sineadmeen
First Steps

Please add ING to list of supported banks in Australia, it’s one of the main banks and it’s very disappointing that the wallet function on Fitbit does not support it.

Sevalisa
First Steps

So this comment and suggestion was raised in 2018.

 

I just talked to the chat person who said ING will eventually be added and to voice my support here.

 

Not sure why we are bothering if it's taken 4 years of comments and 6 pages of people writing and there still is not an ING payment option for fitbit.

 

The only reason I got the versa 3 was so that I had a smartwatch that did most everything. Except now I realise that I can't use pay. So what's the point in having this smartwatch? 

 

I think 4 years of people asking for ING as a banking option should be more than enough for fitbit to actually LISTEN, what a waste of people's time. 

maryarose
First Steps
Totally agree, Sevalisa. And what does "eventually" mean? Nothing. There
must be some commercial reason they won't add ING.
If I hadn't invested so much in my device I'd stop using it and try
something else. That's how they've got us of course, and why they don't
care - we've already paid up.
WhereisING
First Steps

Im late to this party. Just purchased Versa 3 but totally gutted that I cant use Fitbit pay with ING 👎😢

Basilica
First Steps
Yep, it's very sad!
emartin22
Jogger

I would also love to see ING added

Ryan_Albrey
First Steps

Yes I would like to see this fixed. It is actually very annoying that I cannot use my ING Bank account with fitbit pay.

Fran-moves
First Steps

It would be wonderful! The pay function was one of the main reasons to purchase the versa 3, but my ING cards are not compatible. Please and thanks

GrantBlake
First Steps

Agreed. ING would be fantastic. It’s a very popular bank in Australia. 

MichaelCollins
First Steps

This still isn't implemented? Come on.... That's a joke man...

Dantheman007
First Steps

This is bull**ahem**.. add ING now

Theobets
First Steps

Wow, four years since the start of this one. Any news?

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