Can other payment brands be used on the MasterCard PayPass platform?
Recently MasterCard International and Visa International announced that they had reached an agreement to share a common communications protocol and associated testing requirements for RFID-based contactless payments at the point-of-sale. This protocol is based on the MasterCard PayPass system. While other payment brands have not yet planned contactless payment programs for Canada, the common platform means that merchants can be assured that a single PayPass-enabled point-of-sale terminal may support multiple payment brands and will require less time for terminal programming and testing.
