Using Apple Pay on Safari and Google Pay on Chrome for Zenn Payments

Zenn now supports payments via Apple Pay and Google Pay. This means you can now make purchases or send badges on your smartphone without having to register your credit card. In this article, I will note the process for setting up and using Apple Pay and Google Pay on a MacBook Pro.

What are Apple Pay and Google Pay?

While I will leave detailed explanations to other websites, these are systems that allow you to make payments through your devices and accounts by registering payment methods like credit cards in a dedicated app.

https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/
https://pay.google.com/intl/en_us/about/

For online payments, once you have registered a payment method with Apple Pay or Google Pay, you can make future payments without entering your credit card number again (provided the shopping site supports it).

Adding an Apple Pay Card on Mac

I will explain following this page.

https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/HT204506

Open "Wallet & Apple Pay" from your Mac's System Settings. Follow the on-screen instructions to add your card.

Once this state is reached, you are ready to go.

Paying with Safari

Apple Pay can be used in the Safari browser. Open Zenn in Safari and try sending a badge to an article you are interested in or a book you want to support.

If you have already registered a credit card, click on "Choose another payment method."

You should see an option for Apple Pay on the payment method selection screen; please click that. After that, proceed to the confirmation screen.

If there are no issues with the details, click "Confirm badge purchase." You might be prompted for Touch ID or similar authentication at this stage. Once authentication is successful, the badge purchase is complete.

Adding a Google Pay Card

Reference:
https://support.google.com/pay/answer/7625055?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

To set this up from a PC, visit the following site (login required).

https://pay.google.com/

Go to the Payment methods tab > Add payment method, and register your credit card or other payment options.

Once this state is reached, you are ready to go.

Paying with Chrome

You need to ensure that the account you registered with Google Pay matches your Chrome profile. With that set up, open Zenn and try purchasing a book you want to read.

If you have already registered a credit card, choose another payment method.

You should be able to select Google Pay, so select it and proceed to the confirmation screen.

If there are no issues with the details, click "Confirm book purchase." You may see an additional pop-up asking for confirmation. Once confirmed, the book purchase is complete.

Conclusion

By setting up Apple Pay or Google Pay, you can purchase badges or books on Zenn without having to register your credit card information directly on Zenn. Let's start sending your support via badges! Please note that the Apple Pay and Google Pay settings described here were based entirely on my personal environment; if there are any points that don't work or are incorrect, please let me know.