tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | Not Working So far ISIS is little more then a joke. I so want it to work but it appears, even after the year of delays that they still cannot get basic service right.
The map of vendors on their website is a joke. No ability to search or narrow down the area. For example, in Salt Lake City it starts at the middle and you need to go through page after page just to branch out. This makes no sense. It's not like this is new tech. So if I want to find a vendor 20 miles away from downtown SLC, I need to go through page after page of locations (around 20 pages) before I start to get close. I'm then also pulling up all of the other vendors in all locations.
I stopped by a Home Dept on the list. No way to pay with ISIS and no one even knew about it. I did not see any electronic device to even read NFC in the phone. Nothing with the ISIS symbol on it. Does ISIS really expect people to just wander into places and kept trying to pay with their system? Gee ISIS, how about if you make your possible customers do all of the leg work for you? That is a sure what to get ahead of Google Wallet that has been out for over a year.
So far, a joke. |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | reply to tcope
Re: all said by tcope:That is correct... the app detects if the phone has been rooted. If the phone is rooted, it compromises the security of ISIS.
Sounds like a smart plan to me |
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
Re: Not Working ISIS isn't as exclusive as they make it sound. It's just a standard contactless EMV transaction. Something that most Home Depot cashiers don't have a clue how to process so here's how it works. Note, this does NOT work at the self checkout:
1. When you get the total touch your contactless EMV card (including a Google Wallet or ISIS virtual card) to the contactless reader (clearly labeled above the PIN Pad).
2. When prompted for a PIN number press "CANCEL" - do NOT enter the PIN from your phone.
3. Look at amazed/confused look on cashier. |
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Re: Care Not I Do said by BF69:Did you have your smartphone already and using it for other things already? If yes. Then it's free. No, I do not, so, therefor, no, it would not be.
said by BF69:Notice the change in just 9 months. What will it be in 5 years? If some of the predictions I've been reading lately are any guide: Not a whole lot different. They could be wrong, market analysts sometimes are, but it is believed by many that just about everybody that is inclined to go "smart"phone now has one--that the market is essentially saturated. Those analysts expect moderate growth in the "smart"phone market though next year, and then for it to essentially go flat.
We'll see.
said by BF69:I know many people w/o "smart"phones. Even a few that have no wireless phones at all. We have some Amish here that have horse and buggies and no electricity. I bet they're happier than most "smart"phone users you know 
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Re: Rooted wont work? I rooted my phone simply because I am not able to afford the latest and greatest with tons of memory and have to have the phone for my job and all the bloatware that came with the phone used up a great majority of the memory that was on it, when rooted I could uninstall all the extra crap I had no use for and install the things I needed to earn a living for me and my family. You really should consider peoples reasoning before absent mindedly flaming things.
As for DVD and blu-ray players, if I could figure a way to make my old DVD recorder not tell my current cable box I am trying to record a PPV movie then I would gladly do it. Not being able to record PPV with some PPV providers and being able to record with others is just a money game played by the cable providers and the movie industry anyhow.
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Re: wow No you are not missing anything. Typical teclo reacting instead of innovating. |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | reply to Markie
Re: Not Working Good info, thanks Markie. I think ISIS really needs to step up their game. I've recommended that they allow their map of vendors to allow for a zip code search. Otherwise it's useless. I think they also need to give more info on their web site for end customers. I video tutorial of real world use of their system and such. Bottom line, if they don't get people to use their system, it will fail. Yes, it's just rolling out but they have had an extra 18 months to do things like this. |
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 ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
kudos:3 | reply to cableties
Re: Danger Zone Truckasaurus! |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to pnh102
Re: Purchase Protection swipe your credit card, and sign. You want to go to the gym with a quarter, nickel and 3 pennies in you shorts pocket?
Or dip your phone. At 7-11 that's it, at Duane-reade (wallgreens) you have to hit the credit button and accept the amount(stupid)
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
Re: Not Working For me, the big problem is the lack of point of sale training. I'm not in an ISIS market but I do use Google Wallet wherever I can. Today, it doesn't save me time. It takes time. Explaining it to cashiers. Looking like an idiot when the NFC reader is broken (more common than you'd think, sometimes the things aren't even plugged in). Remembering where you can actually use it (not many places yet).
So, why do I use it when I can? Because I think there's great potential in it and seeing transaction volume is what will make it take off. Often I'm the first customer a cashier has seen use it. Even contactless cards aren't used often - most customers swipe their contactless capable card. Because the system just doesn't work that well today.
Lack of transaction volume is WHY it doesn't work well. Merchants aren't interested in installing contactless equipment if nobody is using it. Cashiers aren't going to report terminal problems for a technology a tiny fraction of a percent of customers use - resulting in broken/disconnected readers that worsen the customer experience and drive away the few who dare use it.
Things are going to get better. ISIS is rolling out in two cities for specifically this reason - to increase interest and to allow retailers the ability to focus on training cashiers and testing that contactless EMV payments WORK before people come in trying to use it.
Also, the push to EMV will make contactless more available. New EMV PIN pads will be deployed that have contact and contactless EMV, along with a magnetic stripe reader all in one pad. You'll see PIN pads like this one - »www.verifone.com/products/hardwa···d/vx-820 - in stores soon. That pad supports contact EMV, contactless EMV, and magnetic stripe all in one device. No possibility for a disconnected or improperly configured contactless reader accessory.
Remember that Visa is requiring processors to handle EMV payments (contact AND contactless) by April 2013 and has incentives for merchants to accept EMV (contact AND contactless) starting October 2012 (NOW).
Contactless may never become popular, but it will work in a heck of a lot more places this time next year. Ironically, the push to contact EMV cards will be what drives that. |
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
P.S. The Visa payWave locator lists a heck of a lot of places as "coming soon" - »usa.visa.com/locators/visa-paywa···ator.jsp
I don't know what card network ISIS uses, Google Wallet is MasterCard, but for the most part anywhere that accepts Visa accepts MasterCard and vice versa. |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | That is the unknown part. ISIS's website has almost no info for the end customer. The person who handled their twitter account does not seem to know the facts either.
I'm pretty sure about the following... a merchant only needs to have VISA PayWave or Mastercard PayPass to be able to accpet phone payments (there are other systems as well) but they also then need to be an ISIS merchant. Last I read, this was something like $5/year but I'm sure they need to sign paperwork. So just because a merchant has PayPass or PayWave, this does not mean they can accept ISIS payments.
ISIS has a list of ISIS vendors on their website but the map is crap... you can't narrow the search or search for a vendor.
Other then that, ISIS's website just tells people to look for the ISIS symbol on the pay device and you can use ISIS. But in the real world, I don't think those symbols are displayed, cashiers don't know about the system and ISIS never gives good instructions to the customer on how to use the system (as you point out, I think you choose debit and don't enter your PIN on the system... you hold the phone next to the device). Come on ISIS... you've had over a year... you can't put together a short video on this?!!!).
ISIS is _not_ going to catch on if ISIS makes customers work hard to use the system. Also, it would be so very ISIS is make it easy to use. I'm still giving them time but they have had a ton of it already. |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | reply to Markie
said by Markie:For me, the big problem is the lack of point of sale training. I'm not in an ISIS market but I do use Google Wallet wherever I can. Today, it doesn't save me time. It takes time. Explaining it to cashiers. Looking like an idiot when the NFC reader is broken (more common than you'd think, sometimes the things aren't even plugged in). Remembering where you can actually use it (not many places yet). Just read this first post. YES, YES, YES to everything you mention!!!!!!!
It's simply goint to fail is ISIS expects customers to do all of their work. I see no reason why the phone carriers don't help with the education as well as they have a stake in the gam. Heck, T-mobile is listed on their merchant offer list... why does TM not have an offer out there on opening day? Give 50% off or something. That would get people in their doors and their own employees can then show people how easy it is to use the system. I might be alone on this and I'm not a very bright person but that seems like a win for everyone. I just don't see why they would not have done something like that. Heck, get that word out and TM could even install secure SIMs at the same time. As it is now, everyone just seems to be sticking their heads in the sand and hoping people spend a ton of their time trying hard to hunt down merchants and using the system. |
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
I maybe wrong but I don't believe that it's actually TRUE that they need to be an ISIS merchant - I think that just gets them the right to display the ISIS stickers, be included in their merchant locator (though it seems ISIS is doing that anyways), etc. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure anyone who can take contactless EMV today can take ISIS as-is. |
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
I think ISIS expects to become something consumers demand as Visa's EMV incentive program will result in far more contactless EMV merchants a year from now. I don't think that they want to have a ton of expenses, rather I think they're hoping customers beat down the door demanding their product. Which is to say, I agree with you totally! |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | reply to Markie
said by Markie:I maybe wrong but I don't believe that it's actually TRUE that they need to be an ISIS merchant - I think that just gets them the right to display the ISIS stickers, be included in their merchant locator (though it seems ISIS is doing that anyways), etc. Perhaps I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure anyone who can take contactless EMV today can take ISIS as-is. I'm pretty certain that they do need to be a part of the ISIS network in order to accept payments via ISIS. I have read that ISIS merchants need to sign up and pay a fee. Last I read it was $5/year. |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | reply to Markie
said by Markie: rather I think they're hoping customers beat down the door demanding their product. I think perhaps ISIS is just focusing so much on gaining merchants that they really don't realize that they still have a hard push in getting end customers to use the system. I get the impression that they really don't have a lot of skin in the game in that they use other, existing, hardward. It's really a lot of contracts and that is about it. But it's still big bucks and it's just not going to catch on unless your spoon feed the customer into using the system. I _really_ think once people use it a time or two that they will like it. I also think combining it with loyalty programs and offers is a great idea. You buy 5 meals some place and the next one is free, 20% off coupons, etc. All this info is kept on your phone in one place. Again, unless this is all put in people's faces... they are not going to understand or use the system. They will look at this like a lot of peole do...., why do I need another way to pay when by debit/credit card does just fine. |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | reply to big_e
Re: So what's in it for me? said by big_e:What exactly would I be gaining to persistently store my financial information on a platform that has been proven to be easily compromised by malware? I'm sure the wireless companies are getting their share of the swipe fees for each transaction. My american express card had a wireless chip built into it for years, it seem to confuse the few POS terminals that support it more than anything else, so I have to swipe it anyways. Can you site any situiation where account information has been comprimised on the mobile platform? Just because malware can affect a phone in some way does not mean it can gain access to ones financial information. The ISIS system is set up far differently then you mention.
What would you gain? A few things off the top of my head. ISIS will included loyalty info and offers. For example, you go someplace and buy 5 meals and pay with ISIS. The store then gives you a 6th meal for free. An store may give a 20% discount on something if you pay with ISIS. All of this costs you nothing. You also don't need to carry umteen discount cards with you. |
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT | reply to tcope
Re: Not Working I *believe* that is only to display the logo. I believe it uses either Visa or Mastercard and presents itself as a contactless EMV card (payWave/PayPass). I maybe wrong on this but that's the impression I've got from all sides including their own website: »www.paywithisis.com//where-to-use.xhtml
Note that under the "look for these symbols" they include the generic contactless EMV symbol. That tells me they DON'T have to be an ISIS merchant. I think being an ISIS merchant gets you the stickers, training material, etc. I maybe wrong on this though - which proves how unclear they are being. Unlike Google which makes it very clear "Google Wallet works anywhere MasterCard PayPass works" |
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tcopePremium
join:2003-05-07
Sandy, UT
kudos:2 | ISIS has a list of merchants that accept ISIS and it's certainly not every location with EMV. Also, under the map it states the following, "Isis Ready locations shown above represent points of contactless payment acceptance where the Isis Mobile Wallet may be used".
Their merchant information appears to indicate that you need to contact them in order to participate:
»www.paywithisis.com//merchant-landing.xhtml |
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