Yandex has released an update for the application Yandex.Taxi and Kinopoisk, which brought support for Apple Pay. In the latest versions of the programs you can now pay for travel and movie tickets using the payment system of Apple.
As told in Yandex specifically to connect Apple Pay to pay for a taxi will not have to: if the mobile payments system is already used on the iPhone, it will automatically operate taxi app. The company noted that now every fifth trip is paid for from the beginning of the calculation.
“In large cities the share of trips with non-cash payment above. For example, in Moscow it is 26%, in Saint Petersburg — 31%, in Ekaterinburg — 32%, Sochi — 24% — said the press service of the company. Representatives of the service added that iPhone users are paying by Bank transfer 26% of trips, and Android users — 18% of the trips.”
The new version Yandex.A taxi and a Fire is now available for download in the App Store. Both apps have been able to carry out the payment with the payment system Apple Pay. In Yandex.A cab using Apple Pay, you can pay for the taxi ride, and the Fire — buy movie tickets. Until 17 November, users of the first application can obtain a discount of 100 rubles for the first trip paid for with Apple Pay.
We will remind, the payment service Apple earned in Russia in early October in cooperation with Sberbank, in a month the service became available to users 8 Russian banks.
