Announced earlier in the year, it is now official: Discover bank cards will be supported by Apple Pay from September 16th, the same day as iOS 9 is released. Discover joins Visa and MasterCard in the US as supporting card types for Apple’s contactless payments service.
To sweeten the deal, Discover is even offering a special cashback promotion to celebrate the addition of Apple Pay. You can get 10% cashback on up to $10,000 of in-store purchases until the end of the year, as long as those transactions were using Apple Pay.
Discover it Miles, Miles and Escape cards will also earn an extra 10 miles per dollar as part of the promotion, again up to a $10,000 limit. Like other cards, using Apple Pay with Discover is seamless and automatic. You also get the same purchase and fraud protection with Discover on Apple Pay as when using a plastic card.
Unsurprisingly, Discover said in a statement that they are excited to be on board with Apple Pay.
“We are excited for Discover cardmembers to have the ability to use Apple Pay. Rewards have always been important to our cardmembers, and we want to make sure they receive a generous offer for shopping with Discover and Apple Pay,” said Heather Roche, vice president of rewards at Discover. “We want to encourage new and existing Discover cardmembers to add their Discover card to Apple Pay with a few simple clicks using our mobile app, take advantage of this 10% Cashback Bonus, and experience the ease and convenience of using Apple Pay.”
Apple Pay works with iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch.
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Ten Percent is huge. I make most of my purchases using Apple Pay and I am applying right now. Wow, late to the party but what an entrance.
Pretty neat deal… Become a Discover cardmember through the link and you’ll get $50 Cashback Bonus with your 1st purchase within 3 months. http://bit.ly/1Kbm2YL
10% off an iPad Pro
I will wind up spending $10k on my credit cards thru the end of the year, but unfortunately most of the places I spend my money at don’t accept Apple Pay.
use SAMSUNG PAY then…it works almost everywhere and I think they are getting DISCOVER also soon
Very nice! Almost makes it worth the wait! :)
I confirmed with Discover through a Chat that as long as you do it IN STORE (not a presale through the Apple Store App, you HAVE to do it IN STORE), you will get the 10% on whatever you buy. There won’t be exclusions, like in the past the new iPhones or iPads were always excluded from the 5% at Apple. I took a screenshot, but I am going to keep pushing this to make sure. Normally I presale but this time I am going to wait and probably go around launch day just to make sure I get this deal.