I haven a galaxy s24 ultra purchased in Canada and a Wise card issued to me in Canada.

When i add my card to Samsung pay it says not supported. It seems to work fine on my Google wallet. Any way to fix this?

WISE is a good card and the conversion rate is the market rate. If you ask me how's the experience of using it overseas, I would say it's the best and you should get it. The initial steps (activating and transferring money) might be a bit confusing, but once you have passed that stage, it's all GOOD!

BUT, I noticed that the Malaysian issued WISE card, has an issue with paywave/tap (except for public transportation) and you can't add the card to your Google Wallet / Apply Pay. So you have to either chuck the card into the terminal or swipe. I have no complaint about the security, but it can get a bit annoying since you can't tap especially if you are in hurry.

Anyone manage to solve the paywave/tap issue for retail purchase?

Hi all

I am a Brit currently in Malaysia. I want to explore using Wise or another contactless wallet and / or card after l was charged £12 in bank fees for a RM1,500 withdrawal (l am with HSBC), a ridiculous amount that l am still annoyed about. Kind of getting sick of carrying cash and not being able to use large notes too. But l am new to all of this so sorry if some of this comes off as silly or obvious.

This is what l have gathered till now with Wise.

Get a Wise account (which l have), connect it to Google pay (which is connected to my UK bank which l have done).

Transfer money from UK bank to Wise incurs a small fee of £1.58 ($2.12)

Use Wise wallet for contactless payments, as long as the vendor supports Visa and Mastercard it should be okay.

Order a Wise card for a one-time nominal fee (RM13.70 from what l understand). Cash withdrawals are possible with a Wise card.

Questions

l have a digital card in the 'card' menu which says Visa on it is this the Wise wallet and is this enough to actually pay using contactless payments?

Or do you need a Wise card to activate the Wise wallet? I honestly can't tell.

Silly question ahead so l do apologise. Does your phone need an internet connection / mobile data to actually pay using the Wise wallet outside?

Are you charged any additional fees when using the Wise wallet to pay?

If there is anything else l have missed that you think is important then do tell.

Thanks

I attempted to buy phone using Crypto.com's Visa card on samsung.com multiple times, but samsung.com never accept the card.

When I am at samsung's checkout page (https://www.samsung.com/us/web/express/checkout), upon entering the credit card information, it said:
"We do not accept prepaid cards for this transaction. Please enter a valid credit card to proceed"

or

"The credit card information you have entered is invalid.
Please enter valid credit card information."

Samsung.com support has suggested me to use Google Pay or Amazon Pay with the card. But I am not sure if that will qualify for Samsung promotion campaign if it goes through Google Pay to use this card.

Hello! In a few weeks I’ll be visiting Korea for the first time and have a few questions about the payment methods accepted.

First, I was wondering if anyone had issues with using a discover credit card in Korea? I heard a good majority of Korea uses cash but I was just wondering if discover would work with the payment system over there.

Second, I recently was exploring the wise website and found something stating that the wise card doesn’t work in Korea if it was issued in the US. I was just wondering if this is true from anyone with a US distributed wise card is if there are any steps for the card to actually work. If wise does work, would I be able to use it like a regular card in stores and be able to withdraw cash with it?

Sorry for so many questions I’m just a bit confused about usage of wise in Korea as wise customer service seem very lost and vaguely responded to my questions.

Also if anyone have some recommendation on payment methods or the best places to exchange currency in Seoul please lmk!