You may soon be able to share your Samsung Pay purchases

Final updated: November 29th, 2017 at 09:40 UTC+01:00

Samsung has built a characteristic for Samsung Pay that allows users to view a list of all their past transactions and share them to various social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, according to a patent spotted on KIPRIS' database.

Samsung Pay Story, which the firm describes every bit a "system for sharing buying experiences," is expected to exist introduced in a future update for Samsung Pay, in an attempt to spread awareness of the payment platform using social media.

The firm, as outlined in the patent documentation, will run a "Pay Story with Celebrities" entrada to encourage users to trial the feature. Influencers will be able to share details of their purchase, forth with a snapshot and rating.

It'southward essentially Facebook's bank check-in characteristic, simply for purchases. Users will, of grade, have the option to choose the data they want to share—and so they don't accept to include the price or a moving picture of their purchase, for example.

Samsung's long-term plan, however, is to turn Pay Story into a social network of sorts; users will exist able to view a list of nearby facilities that accept Samsung Pay, together with their corresponding ratings and reviews (remember: Yelp).

Samsung could build its ain social network

There's also scope for Samsung to aggrandize Pay Story into a friends-based service, though that seems similar a chip of a far-fetched idea at this precise moment in time—but that's not to say that won't happen in the not-as well-distant future.

If enough people are taking reward of Pay Story's external sharing feature, there's no reason why the house shouldn't allow them to build a list of contacts inside Samsung Pay who can view a mitt-picked selection of their transactions.