The Future of Contactless Payment Comes from Amazon

Amazon One is a new service from Amazon. It’s a brand new way to pay without contact by scanning your palm. It won’t be used just for payments, but also for many other things that require authentication. For now, it will be set up in some Amazon Go stores before it becomes a common thing everywhere.

The registration is fairly simple and it involves inserting your credit card in the device for the first time and hovering your palm over the device to connect it with the given card. After you sign up, you can use your palm for payments that are easier than ever!

The device works by analyzing several aspects of your palm. Since no two palms are the same, this should be one of the safest modes of contactless payment. Your biometric data will be protected and the Amazon One devices are supposed to have multiple security controls. They won’t store the image of your palm but encrypt it and send it to the cloud to recognize. If you want, you’ll be able to delete the data.

It’s possible to sign up without an Amazon account, you only need a credit card and a phone number. Would you give this payment option a try?