FNB Banking App with QR payment
FNB is expanding its digital payments ecosystem by enabling consumers and sole proprietor businesses to perform and accept QR code payments using the FNB Banking App.
To make a payment, individual FNB customers enable the new FNB App ‘Scan to Pay’ widget on their smartphones. Alternatively, they can select the Payments option on the FNB App, login and select FNB Pay, then click on ‘Scan to Pay’.
Similarly, businesses select Payments, login and click on ‘Speedpoint’, register, and begin to use the service. Businesses have the option to display the QR Code within the FNB app, e-mail and print the QR code, or share it via social media. There are no monthly rental or maintenance costs, which makes this a cost effective means for a business to accept digital payments.
Platform: Most smartphones.
Expect to pay: A free to use service.
Stockists: Download the FNB Banking App.
Flow
Tenants in South Africa could get up to 20% of their rent back in rewards, every month, thanks to Flow, a free mobile app available for download from the Apple and Android app stores.
Tenants in South Africa get rewarded for registering on the app, adding their property details, paying their rent on time, and looking after their homes, among other.
Tenants using Flow can be rewarded for good rental behaviour even if their landlord isn’t active on the app (although there are many benefits for landlords to sign up).
For rewards, Flow has struck partnerships with a number of brands in the lifestyle, entertainment, homeware, fashion and travel space, as well as a selection of airtime and electricity providers.
Platform: Android and iOS
Expect to pay: A free download.
Stockists: Visit the store linked to your device
Click here to read about Vodacom’s new video streaming service, an emergency app that alerts loved ones with the tap of a button, and an app that puts games into chat.
Vodacom Video Play
South African fans of one of the world’s most renowned domestic football cup competitions will, for the first time, be able to catch all the FA Cup action on Vodacom’s entertainment-streaming platform, Video Play.
Vodacom’s Video Play has secured the rights to the 2018/19 Emirates FA Cup and will live-stream all the matches, in addition to giving football fans access to any of the action that they’ve missed, concluding with the final on 18 May 2019.
Platform: Android and iOS
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Visit www.videoplay.co.za/campaigns/fa-cup/
Dialdirect Namola emergency app gets Family Safety Feature
The Dialdirect Namola emergency app has just released an update designed to give its users the peace-of-mind of knowing where their loved ones are at all times. The feature, called Family Safety, allows usets to share their location with lived ones continually. However, this does require a data connection.
While the feature is similar to the Life360 app, which allows family members to locate each other at any time, it is built into Namola, which also provides access to emergency services.
As with Life360, the Family Safety feature also gives Namola users the option to receive real-time notifications when family or friends leave or arrive at a location. No need to remember to call them to see that they have arrived safely.
Namola also announced that 250 000 South Africans have signed up for its emergency app since its launch in September 2017.
Platform: Android and iOS
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Visit the store lined to your device.
PlayJ
Most of us use video chatting to stay in touch with friends on the other side of the world, but PlayJ offers more than just chat functionality. The app lets users have fun at the same time. So, while chatting, they can play games and watch videos, among other, within the one app.
Platform: Android
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Visit the Google Play Store