BRD Romania is one of the largest banks in our country, with millions of customers who use its banking services at the moment, and has been growing for some time. Those from BRD Romania launched in 2019 the possibility for their customers to pay by phone using Apple Pay, but unfortunately only using Mastercard cards, not VISA cards, and the situation was repeated in 2021 after Google Pay was implemented officially.
BRD Romania did not offer any official explanation for either of the two decisions, but customers complained about not being able to use their VISA shopping cards to make mobile payments. Those from BRD Romania said that at some point they will offer support for these types of cards for phone payments, but if Google Pay was launched without it, it is clear that there is still a long wait until something like this arrives. to clients.
BRD Romania: Important Problem Still Reported by Customers
BRD Romania more than likely issues more Mastercard cards than VISA, otherwise the decision would only make sense if the first processor had financed the implementation of phone payment systems. It is not known how many of BRD Romania's customers have VISA or Mastercard cards, but since people are complaining that they would like to use the first ones for phone payments, it is quite clear that there are enough dissatisfied people.
BRD Romania needed several years to implement support for Google Pay for customers, lagging far behind other banks in terms of offering phone payment systems. Considering this, I wouldn't hold out much hope that support for VISA cards will come very soon, those from BRD Romania putting much more emphasis on Mastercard, so it would be good to get one, if you don't already have one, and you want to pay by phone.
BRD Romania recently started to migrate customers from all over Romania to its new You platform, the old MyBRD Mobile seems to be ready to be forgotten in the coming years.
