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I used Apple Pay on iOS to buy something direct from a vendor recently and was shocked at how smooth the purchase experience was.

1. Click "Buy with Apple Pay" button.

2. Double click power button on the side of my phone to confirm.

I wish more sites would support it.

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It works with Safari on Desktop also, and yes, it's glorious and easy.

Other tips to get me to avoid Amazon: tell me your site supports Apple Pay and help me move my full cart (e.g., a cart link with a temporary token) from Chrome to Safari so I can use Apple Pay.

Then they should also support Android. Apple isn't the majority anymore.

Even if Apple Pay comes to others I won't use it. I absolutely don't think Apple has better privacy than anyone else.

There is a W3C standard for web payments. If the website supports the standard, it supports Android.

Did not know that. Thank you!

Slight correction. It’s a candidate recommendation - not quite a standard.

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

And Apple implements it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_pay_on_the_w...

Safari supports two JavaScript APIs that let you accept Apple Pay payments from customers on your website: Apple Pay JS, and the W3C Payment Request API. The Apple Pay JS API is analogous to the PassKit (Apple Pay and Wallet) framework, used for Apple Pay in apps. The Payment Request API is a W3C candidate API.

It seems to be supported across all browsers.

https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-js/reference

I tried to buy my Mom a birthday gift with such an apple pay checkout from a manufacture's site, and I have been unable to set the shipping address to her's vs mine. It was a bit cheaper than Amazon, but it is coming to my house today and not my Mom's (happy birthday mom!). Now she has to wait till thanksgiving.

The prompt that comes up to initiate Apple Pay has a section for the shipping information. If you click that, you can create multiple locations and addresses for each location. You can even create custom emails in the same way under the email section.

Is that what you were doing and were unable to do it or was there some kind of technical issue?

I just hit "Buy" and it was bought -- I didn't get any prompt that I noticed except for "approve this on your watch"

You didn't pay attention.

I have shipped to other addresses than my main address on file with Apple.

blame the user!

There's a prompt after you hit buy where it requires you to either double-tap the side button (on iOS) or TouchID (on MacOS and some iOS devices). On that prompt, it shows all the transaction information including shipping info, the card Apple Pay will run the transaction on, and the contact information for the transaction.

You must have been speeding through and missed it.

I'm supposed to enter the address on my watch?

I wish there was a Firefox plugin that'd alert you that a site is checking for Apple Pay support and tell you, so I could switch into Safari briefly to do the purchase.

That would be amazing. I just switched back to Firefox from Safari after uBlock stopped working and the biggest thing I miss is Apple Pay. I try to remember to make purchases in Safari but, without the ability to use an ad blocker, it makes it much less simple and seamless than it was before.

I was pretty amazed as well - frankly I'd much prefer buying direct with apple pay than through amazon

Same. Amazon also lost my trust. Buying expensive fake items is not something I would like to do.

I just used that with yeti.com and it's actually amazing how well it works.

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