Apple Pay top ups 🍏

[IanS (Ian)]

So excited to see this appear as an option in the app, I had to register a forum account!

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

Thanks for sharing this, you beat me to it

Here’s a short guide to using Apple Pay to topup.

By the way, using Apple Pay to topup costs us more money than banks transfers so we’d be grateful if people used transfers whenever possible

[IanS (Ian)]

Annoyingly it only appeared shortly AFTER I initiated a bank transfer top up…

Looking forward to simpler future topups though, fantastic stuff guys

[Raferoo]

So easy! just tried it out

up to 45 mins for monies to appear

[zain]

Remember it’s a lifetime £1,000 limit, so you’ll run out at some point.

[christopher]

Great news. As an Android user though, it’s irritating to seemingly have to play second fiddle again. Will Freetrade’s Android app forever lag the iOS one feature-wise? Is parity too much to ask for?

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

@christopher

Will Freetrade’s Android app forever lag the iOS one feature-wise? Is parity too much to ask for?

The Android app will definitely get to parity with the iOS app, within the next couple of months. The team’s big believers in that, especially because quite a few of them are Android users

We’re launching Android Pay topups in May.

[Ian]

@christopher

Is parity too much to ask for?

Certainly not . We have set an internal goal to maintain parity. You’ll start to see some new features out on Android before iOS as well. This allows us to gather feedback before launching on both platforms.

[christopher]

@Freetrade_Team1

The Android app will definitely get to parity with the iOS app.

That’s great to hear.

@Ian

You’ll start to see some new features out on Android before iOS as well.

Now that’s what I’m talking about; sod parity—gimme gimme gimme!

[neovo]

@Freetrade_Team1

By the way, using Apple Pay to topup costs us more money than banks transfers so we’d be grateful if people used transfers whenever possible

How significant is the increase in using Apple Pay?

Figures be interesting

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

I can’t share that much detail I’m afraid, just ‘more’

[neovo]

Any reason why not???

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

We’re often not going to disclose the commercial agreements that we have with our partners (who’re Stripe & checkout.com here), if at all.

In case you’re wondering “but is that transparent?”, here’s how we think about that -

@Viktor

In general, while we are fans of pushing transparency as far as possible, we may not be able to answer each question you might ask, especially not straight away , for a number of reasons:

• the data is not available
• the answers are commercially sensitive (these tend to help competition, but not our beloved community)
• the answer is only reflective of the short-term situation and therefore misleading
• we simply don’t have time to answer every single question we get asked

[neovo]

Fair enough, reminds me of the debate Monzo had/ have with ATM withdrawals

I’ll continue to add funds via bank transfer as it’s pretty seamless now Monzo automatically inserts my reference

I hope this helps new customers - however as they get used to Apple Pay , my only worry is as they soon hit their £1k limit they then have to revert to using a bank transfer which won’t be as convenient

Good work on the release of Apple Pay

[Freetrade_Team]

Hey @neovo, thanks!

By the way, we’ll also be introducing some other improvements to top ups soon, so hopefully these various options will offer good choices for people to top up depending on their own preferences etc.

[Vlad (Vladislav Kozub)]

@Freetrade_Team

By the way, we’ll also be introducing some other improvements to top ups soon

Let me guess, once the investment platform is up and running?

[Freetrade_Team]

We’ll have more in the pipeline before that!

[saf]

on Twitter

Josh Gare

Looks very smooth, I think it says up to £1000 can be topped up via Apple Pay, not sure if this is over the lifetime of your account, or per month/year.

[Freetrade_Team1 (Freetrade_Team)]

@saf

I think it says up to £1000 can be topped up via Apple Pay, not sure if this is over the lifetime of your account, or per month/year

It does. When this launches you’ll be able to top up, up to £1,000 over the lifetime of your account.

Here’s the video that’s in Josh’s tweet -

[Raul (Ann Onymuz)]

Sorry, but what does that mean?!

@Freetrade_Team1

able to top up, up to £1,000 over the lifetime of your account.

Does it means that if someone makes a £1,000 top up in one go, that it will be it?! I ask cuz I’m not familiar with Apple Pay.