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Shopee has also shown some signs of Apple Pay’s possible upcoming arrival in Malaysia, with the ecommerce platform having added Apple Pay as a payment option. According to a report from a local news portal, the sign was on display at the Maxis Centre at Sri Muda Shah Alam. At the time of publication, there has not been an official announcement from Apple on the availability of Apple Pay in Malaysia.
Yesterday, we reported that Shopee may be adding the option for consumers in Malaysia to make purchases via Apple Pay and now, it looks like the payment ...
Furthermore, Apple Pay is not officially available in Malaysia despite being introduced by the tech giant in other regions since 2014. Shared by Twitter user Fitri Samsil, the photo of the placard on a table with the sign ‘Apple Play accepted here’ is allegedly taken at the Maxis Centre in Sri Muda, Shah Alam recently. Yesterday, we reported that Shopee may be adding the option for consumers in Malaysia to make purchases via Apple Pay and now, it looks like the payment method is coming to other merchants too.
Apple Pay, the mobile payment service by Apple, has now appeared as a payment option on popular e-commerce site Shopee.
The message which came from AmBank said that the forumer’s card is able to support Apple Pay. Furthermore, Apple Pay has not yet been listed as one of the payment methods on Shopee Malaysia’s help page. Apple Pay has been long sought after by Malaysian users and the time for the feature to appear locally may be coming sooner than you would expect.
This is pretty much the biggest confirmation so far that Apple Pay is going to be made available for Apple users in Malaysia.
Since Apple Cash service was rolled out through a partnership with a US-based prepaid debit card company Green Dot, we don’t expect it to be rolled out here and even the image shown on the signage at Maxis Centre earlier did not depict the feature.Hence, we feel is rather odd that Maxis has categorized Apple Pay as an e-wallet. Nevertheless, the biggest take here is that a huge Malaysian telco has technically acknowledged Apple Pay and looks like it should roll out anytime now. Apple Pay has been listed as one of the payment methods on the Maxis website, according to a screenshot shared by Lowyat.NET Forumer me076310. Just yesterday, we reported that Shopee Malaysia has added Apple Pay as one of its payment methods. Just like what we have noted before, users would encounter a pop-up message that points them to a page on Apple US’s support site that provides instructions for passes and tickets rather than payment cards. According to Twitter user @riisams, he spotted this signage at a Maxis Centre in Selangor this morning.