Do you remember when you had to go to the bank before the weekend to get enough cash to make it until the next week? Do you remember when they stopped accepting cheques at your local grocery store? Do you remember when ATMs grounded underneath a shady stair of a club were the only method of getting money to pay for your evening?
I do remember those days and thankfully they are gone. The “Cash Only” sign has been placed across countless venues both downtown and uptown when banknotes were essential customers’ financial trading. Then the age of digital trading came through the internet and the gig was up and done.
In the last ten years paying the bills has drastically changed, we don’t carry staches of $100 bill in our pocket to make it through the day, and we don’t need to stand in line at our local teller to get some cash for our shopping needs.
Along came the age of online payments in different forms to free us from the necessity of having our wallet robbed while going back home from work during the evening. We now have the chance of making our finance dues only through the use of our smartphones.
Facebook Messenger has added a feature to split the bill when paying for the tab. This means social platforms have absorbed the need to improve their users’ experience by providing the necessary tools from their devices.
Smartphones technology will continue to host more and more alternative ways to promote digital payment systems, along with bill and purchasing offers in order to maximize the user’s experience.