Apple Pay is now functioning on the Barclaycard Avios credit cards

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• Kieran says:

  23 Jun23 June 03:25

  Just Apple pay or Google pay also?

  • Youllnever says:

    23 Jun23 June 03:52

    You’ll need to use the Contactless feature in the Barclays app if you’re on Android – Google Pay isn’t supported and they’ve said there are no plans to.

    • Law says:

      23 Jun23 June 04:33

      How backwards can they be to not support Google pay….

      On a serious note, what’s this contactless feature in the app? Can’t seem to find

      • Rhys says:

        23 Jun23 June 10:14

        Unsurprisingly – Apple charges them for the privilege!

    • Brian P says:

      23 Jun23 June 07:37

      “contactless mobile isn’t available for your card”

      very frustrating..

    • Dirtyneedlebluesky says:

      23 Jun23 June 07:44

      I don’t see this option myself on Android.

      Has anybody try loading this card on Curve yet? I kind of gave up using Curve (not mentioned much on here either nowadays) as my Lloyds cards were blocked. If so can you add and do the points track?

      • Red Flyer says:

        23 Jun23 June 08:09

        Yes I used in Spain via curve extensively last month and points posted no issues.

        • Dirtyneedlebluesky says:

          23 Jun23 June 14:34

          Great – thanks all for the confirmation. really useful to know and forgot to even try it when I visited NL recently. Will dig out the curve, dust it down and give it a whirl.

      • JohnTh says:

        23 Jun23 June 08:11

        Yes Curve fine provided you have already used BCard for some spend direct.

      • Rossd891 says:

        23 Jun23 June 09:30

        Works fine on Curve form me. Frequent traveler, never had an issue with it.

• Jim says:

  23 Jun23 June 05:06

  Has anyone else had any issues with applying for the card? I’ve been refused but my credit is excellent.

  • Rob says:

    23 Jun23 June 08:39

    Please list the ways you think Barclays would make money if they accepted you.

    • Jonathan says:

      23 Jun23 June 09:33

      Just because you pay your balances off fully, doesn’t mean you’re a good customer to them, if you never missed a payment or paid a penny in interest on your credit card, what’s going to attract them to saying yes to you

      • Brian says:

        23 Jun23 June 13:15

        That’s completely fair but I’m not convinced that’s the reason. Probably just useless systems and IT, which given their history is more believable

    • dougzz99 says:

      23 Jun23 June 09:52

      Whilst I agree with you, in what way is the constant promotion of this via HfP not exactly what you’re pointing out. HfP audience typically affluent travel savvy points collectors. Isn’t that exactly the audience to cost Barclays money?

      • Rob says:

        23 Jun23 June 10:56

        HfP are well off and about 20 years younger at a guess than the average Barclays current account holder. Just don’t be too well off ….

        In 20 years Barclays will have no customers unless it moves aggressively, assuming all those 25 year old Monzo users stick with Monzo.

  • robkeane says:

    23 Jun23 June 09:42

    Jim, it appears the credit check is not solely about you having good credit, it is about ensuring that you don’t have a really great credit history such that you will never actually pay them any interest or fees. People have been trained by the credit scoring apps to assume that a great score means you are a shoe in for any card you apply for. The score isn’t used of course, but a high score may be an indicator that you may not be the customer that bclays is looking for.

    • Brian says:

      23 Jun23 June 09:51

      No idea if I’ll get rejected for this card once I apply, but I’ve always paid off my balance and I’ve got a good credit rating but I’ve never been rejected for ANY card ever.

      Not bothered if I do get rejected but £400 of money to spend in Argos would be nice!

      • Jonathan says:

        23 Jun23 June 10:18

        I’d go to John Lewis !

        • Brian says:

          23 Jun23 June 14:50

          Didn’t even know you could spend nectar points there! Much better than having to look for avios availability and pay the silly fees they charge on top of taxes

        • Rob says:

          23 Jun23 June 15:14

          You can’t.

    • Alan says:

      23 Jun23 June 17:37

      I have been paying all my cards off in full every month for at least 20yrs have excellent credit score and have never had an application rejected.

      I suspect this “too good to have our card” theory is an urban myth.

• Emma says:

  23 Jun23 June 05:15

  Is it working for supplementary card holders too?

  • Andrew J says:

    23 Jun23 June 06:48

    Why wouldn’t it?

    • Emma says:

      23 Jun23 June 13:40

      I’ve been trying for ages to set it up but there’s no option to verify other than to call them and when I did they couldn’t do it from their end.

  • Geoff says:

    23 Jun23 June 08:17

    Yes but I cant remember how we set it up – I think it was from the main cardholder’s app.

• Phil says:

  23 Jun23 June 06:56

  For Apple Pay you need to set it up in the app under cards and add to wallet. If you try add it directly in Apple Pay (the normal way) it won’t work and will request verification and a call which goes nowhere fast (trust me!)

  So as to the supp card holders I’m not sure as you need the app to essentially activate and not sure if they can login?

  • d4ve says:

    23 Jun23 June 07:29

    I managed to add direct to Apple pay and verify with text. Took less than a minute.

  • Kazim says:

    23 Jun23 June 07:50

    Supplementary card working fine unlike during the Beta.

  • JK says:

    23 Jun23 June 11:08

    Worked perfectly for me doing it the Apple way from Wallet app.

  • PeteM says:

    23 Jun23 June 11:23

    Thank you – I was tearing my hair out and the helpline… couldn’t help!

• Alan says:

  23 Jun23 June 08:09

  Shame they still don’t support Google Pay and force you to use their inferior app implementation instead which stops you using other cards – really monopolistic (and a rubbish implementation!)

  • Froggitt says:

    23 Jun23 June 08:50

    100% agree.

• Rob says:

  23 Jun23 June 08:38

  No

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  23 Jun23 June 09:20

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• Philondon says:

  23 Jun23 June 09:20

  Why won’t they support Google Pay???

  This card really isn’t that great, still no statements in the app. I tried phoning and the automated voice told me to use Chat in the app. I did and the app says you don’t need to watch the screen as you get a notification when they reply. But you don’t if the app times out and logs you out.

  They really need more or better software engineers it seems, but then I hear there is a worldwide shortage!

  Anyway this is my backup card for when I can’t use Amex.

  Maybe someone wants to ask the Barclaycard boss at the HfP party about Google Pay as I’m not going to the party

  • Alan says:

    24 Jun24 June 07:34

    Good idea, Philondon – would be great if someone could (I won’t be there either). Their app quality is appalling – in addition to lack of promised notifications, chat also blocks predictions/autocorrect from your keyboard which makes typing much harder!

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