{"id":131688,"date":"2023-02-08T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/02\/08\/apple-retail-employees-testing-buy-now-pay-later-service?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2023-02-08T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:40:08","slug":"apple-retail-employees-testing-buy-now-pay-later-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/08\/apple-retail-employees-testing-buy-now-pay-later-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple retail employees testing &#8216;Buy Now, Pay Later&#8217; service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12\" id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\">\n<p id=\"hero-cap\" class=\"hero-caption\" title=\"Apple Pay Later\">Apple Pay Later<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/apple-retail-employees-testing-buy-now-pay-later-service.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/apple-retail-employees-testing-buy-now-pay-later-service.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p> <em> AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-sm-12 article-lead\">Apple&#8217;s upcoming Apple Pay Later feature has entered the next level of testing as the Cupertino tech giant expands the service to its retail employees.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple Pay Later is a buy now, pay later program that will allow users to split any <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-pay\" title=\"Apple Pay\" data-kpt=\"1\">Apple Pay<\/a> purchase into four equal payments over six weeks with no additional interest or fees. When using the feature, the amount and due date for each payment are specified on the purchasing page.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-02-08\/apple-expands-test-of-its-pay-later-service-to-retail-staff\">According to<\/a> <em>Bloomberg<\/em>, Apple contacted its retail staff to offer them a test version of the service. The test suggests that the feature is nearing release.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/02\/02\/apple-pay-later-is-being-tested-by-employees-and-will-arrive-soon\">reportedly formed<\/a> a subsidiary company to finance the lending for the Apple Pay Later service. Apple Financing LLC will be separate from the company&#8217;s primary corporate entity.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\">\n<p>Apple Wallet is used to manage payment plans. The functionality is also built into the Apple Pay platform, so various applications and services will already support it.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Pay Later AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. Apple&#8217;s upcoming Apple Pay Later feature has entered the next level of testing as the Cupertino tech giant expands the service to its retail employees. Apple Pay Later is a buy now, pay later program that will allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}