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BOON. PAYMENT
Pioneering mobile payment
native Android and iOS apps
One of the first payment apps offering NFC payments ahead of it’s time before Google Pay and Apple Pay were available.
October 2013 - Google introduced Android 4.4 KitKat with a new open architecture for NFC payments called Host Card Emulation (HCE).
February 2014 - VISA and Mastercard announced their support of HCE. Payment apps could be created for the first time in history.
November 2015 - boon Android app is launched.
Challenge
Enabling contactless payments (before Google Pay and Apple Pay)
Payments possible without active internet connection
Independent of banks and mobile networks
Selected tech stack
Release 2015
Redesign 2018
Release 2015
In November 2015 boon Android app was launched in four European countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Belgium.
Redesign 2018
Both apps were redesigned and rebuilt using the latest development tools and brand new UI design.
Wearables support
Super fast and easy payments
supporting wearables:
NFC payment function handled via MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) as a tokenization service provider and Google Pay, Apple Pay, Garmin Pay, Fitbit Pay as a digital wallet provider.
Result
More than 24 million Euros in transaction volume per year
White label
Significantly reduced time to market for rebranded versions.
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Framework software architecture:
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API integrations and core functions developed as a "core"
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UI / UX configuration layer
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Modern development technologies (Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android)
More than
100 K
Users
Thousands of reviews
4+
Rating in App store
& Google Play
Certification
Compliant
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