{"id":3367,"date":"2016-06-08T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2023-04-28T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:46:33","slug":"3367-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/3367-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WAYS CONSUMERS CAN USE NFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near field communication technology (NFC) is on the rise, and consumers can use NFC not just for making payments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top ways consumers can use NFC (Near field communications):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NFC Access Keys<\/strong> &#8211; can also be used as your access to certain buildings or hotels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFC Boarding Pass<\/strong> &#8211; are used in airports to expedite the boarding process. No more keeping track of that printed boarding pass!<\/p>\n<p><strong>File Sharing<\/strong> &#8211; on certain Android phones, consumers can share songs, contacts and files from phone to phone with a simple tap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail<\/strong> &#8211; Paying in stores simply requires a wave of the customer\u2019s smartphone. This provides speedier transactions, but also provides merchants the opportunity to offer their customers loyalty points and rewards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFC Ticketing<\/strong> &#8211; speeds up subway boarding time by allowing consumers to use their phones at the reader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vending Machines<\/strong> &#8211; NFC-enabled vending machines will allow customers to simply tap and go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the growing list of NFC technology uses, merchants should be prepared for the adoption. Upgrade your terminal to be NFC-enabled give us a call at 888-996-2273<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near field communication technology (NFC) is on the rise, and consumers can use NFC not just for making payments. Top<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/3367-2\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,12],"tags":[511,2955,222,2860,26,49,254,93,234,130,87],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-near-field-communication","tag-consumers","tag-customers-smartphone","tag-merchants-2","tag-near-field-communication","tag-nfc","tag-payments","tag-retail","tag-rewards","tag-technology","tag-terminal","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}