Mobile wallet comes to Coles credit cards

Coles Mobile Wallet
No need to take your wallet out

Aussie retailer Coles has launched its own mobile wallet, with NFC stickers and a new app giving Coles-branded credit card customers contactless mobile payments.

Currently available to iPhone and Android users, the new Coles Mobile Wallet app and Coles Pay Tag also links up your Flybuys loyalty card program.

Going mobile

Coles began trialing the technology last year, which found that 77% of the participants found the Pay Tag more convenient than the traditional credit card.

"We understand that Coles customers are doing even more from their mobile devices... With this in mind, it is exciting to launch the Coles Mobile Wallet, which puts customers in control of their spending and introduces Australians to an entirely new way to pay," said Richard Wormald, Cole's General Manager of Finance Services.

In terms of security, Coles says that its Pay Tags and Mobile Wallet are covered by MasterCard's Zero Liability and have Falcon fraud technology.