Simplii Financial Launches Apple Pay Support for Interac Debit
CIBC’s Simplii Financial has announced Apple Pay support for iOS users, along with support for Google Pay and Samsung Pay as well.
Simplii says in order to setup your Interac debit card with Apple Pay, your mobile number needs to be on file with your account, which you can add via online banking (More Services > Change Your Address > Phone Number).
Great news! Apple Pay®, Google Pay™ & Samsung Pay® are here! Add your Simplii Financial™ bank card today. https://t.co/rYbnr0H8s0 pic.twitter.com/sb6b9yZZec
— Simplii Financial (@SimpliiFin) May 8, 2018
Users can then add their debit card via the Wallet app on iOS, and then authenticate for purchases as normal with Apple Pay, either with Touch ID or Face ID on iPhone X.

Simplii launched their operations back in November, while similarly introducing an iOS app at the same time. The direct banking brand debuted after CIBC severed their ties with PC Financial last summer.
Apple hasn’t updated their Apple Pay page to list Simplii, but we expect that to change soon. Let us know how your Apple Pay setup goes with Simplii.
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Can someone tel me difference between Android pay and Samsung pay? So you would have two choices if you owned a Samsung device?
Difference is one is garbage and the other is trash.
Samsung pay allows you to use the magnetic reader if the debit terminal doesn’t have the ability to use a chip card. Most Canadian shops should have the chip reader though. Samsung pay also has promotions where you get rewards for using it.
FINALLY
YES! I have been waiting for this!
Finally! But everyone must be trying to add it, I’m not getting the verification code….
I had to call them and then realized I didn’t add my mobile number to Simplii. They manually verified for me.
There was a bit of a lag in verification when adding it, then I chose verification via text message. I didn’t even have to do anything – as soon as the text came in, Apple Pay automatically filled in the verification code and it was good to go! Finally!
I keep getting ‘Invalid Card’ when I try..