Summary: As long as you're a Chase or an American Express card holder, you will not miss Google Wallet.
Setting up ISIS for the first time, you'll register a new account, and wait for a text message that will activate your ISIS account. The process of adding a card is integrated with each bank, with confirmation codes to ensure you're adding a card you own. This is definitely something you'll want to set up at home before going out and buying stuff with your phone.
Once you're set up, activate the card you want to use as your ISIS payment, and as long as the green ISIS icon is in the notification area, your phone is good to tap-to-pay.
In my case, I paid for my groceries at Whole Foods, tapped my phone and it was done. If you've used Google Wallet, the experience is really no different other than you don't see a virtual receipt generated to acknowledge the transaction on the ISIS side. You get a simple confirm screen showing that a charge was completed.
ISIS has some seriously bad politics surrounding it, and fundamentally I'm still unhappy about the monopolistic practices -- but as a Verizon customer, I should be used to this by now. But we've been waiting for a Verizon approved version of mobile payments for a long time now, and that day is finally here. Go ahead and give it a shot. Credit due here - the ISIS product is very well thought out. Some nice incentives in there as well for paying with it.
Setting up ISIS for the first time, you'll register a new account, and wait for a text message that will activate your ISIS account. The process of adding a card is integrated with each bank, with confirmation codes to ensure you're adding a card you own. This is definitely something you'll want to set up at home before going out and buying stuff with your phone.
Once you're set up, activate the card you want to use as your ISIS payment, and as long as the green ISIS icon is in the notification area, your phone is good to tap-to-pay.
In my case, I paid for my groceries at Whole Foods, tapped my phone and it was done. If you've used Google Wallet, the experience is really no different other than you don't see a virtual receipt generated to acknowledge the transaction on the ISIS side. You get a simple confirm screen showing that a charge was completed.
ISIS has some seriously bad politics surrounding it, and fundamentally I'm still unhappy about the monopolistic practices -- but as a Verizon customer, I should be used to this by now. But we've been waiting for a Verizon approved version of mobile payments for a long time now, and that day is finally here. Go ahead and give it a shot. Credit due here - the ISIS product is very well thought out. Some nice incentives in there as well for paying with it.
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