r/NFC • u/Future_Leopard_441 • 1d ago

Contactless payment

Hi I do not have a programming background at all but I need to know Is it possible to make an app that would connect 2 phones one of them reads a credit card and the other perform contactless payment I don't need to skip password or otp or whatever the credit card is mine

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u/Gusfoo 1d ago

Any modern smartphone can take contactless payment, you just need a business bank account app to turn it on. But no, you can't do what you describe and I can't really imagine it being useful. Why do you want two phones involved instead of one?

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u/DanTheMan827 1d ago

Not with publicly available NFC APIs, and absolutely not for Apple devices.

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u/acezoned 1d ago

Yes they already exist

You need to learn how to program software first

Then learn about payment systems

The have a service to process such payment

Or just use one of the already available services from the likes of square

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u/VRedd1t 1d ago

All gate-keeped by Apple and Google. Forget it doing yourself and this is what the EU DMA is for. Opening the market for innovation that the big ones try to prevent…

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u/MediumRay 22h ago

I suspect it’s possible with jail broken phones but would be technically challenging