BT Pay, integration with Google Fit and Apple Health to support a healthy lifestyle

[Update 7 October 2020]: In just one day since the announcement of the new BT Pay facility, over 50,000 customers have integrated their health apps into BT Pay.

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Starting today, BT Pay is going fast beyond banking by encouraging a healthy lifestyle. The new feature brings BT Pay integration with the Google Fit and Apple Health fitness tracking apps, giving users access to rewards based on their physical activity.

With this move, the bank is preparing the platform to integrate more offers that support a healthy lifestyle, continuing to build an ecosystem of gamification offers and rewards.

"We are taking another big step towards our goal of being the first payments and banking super-app in Romania. BT Pay was the first single issuer wallet in the country and has maintained its position on the podium by regularly adding new features to the app, including in areas complementary to banking - donations, offers and health. Each of us, although we have many apps on our phone, we use only a few on a daily basis. These are super apps, and BT Pay is becoming one of them." - says Oana Ilas, Executive Director Retail Banking Product Management and Development, Banca Transilvania.

Healthy doses of physical activity data in BT Pay

Through BT Pay access to details about physical activity, as well as rewards, the bank encourages an active and healthy lifestyle. Users of the app will have access to information about steps taken, distance walked and duration of physical activity directly from the app, and BT prepares personalised campaigns with benefits for customers based on this data.

The first prize for BT Pay users is accident insurance, and the steps to be taken are as follows:

• Access the Offers-Rewards on the go section of BT Pay and connect your Google Fit or Apple Health or Fitbit account;
• Approximately 10,000 steps/day will be covered between 5 and 31 October this year, which means 270,000 in total;
• Activate the offer after reaching the target number of steps;
• Making payments of at least 100 lei with BT Pay, Apple Pay or Fitbit Pay during the campaign period.  

BT Pay & #bankingladistanta

BT Pay is one of the bank's phone banking solutions. Also in the context of the pandemic, in order to help customers with as many remote banking solutions as possible, Banca Transilvania has accelerated the launch of some facilities in the application since March this year, the most important of which are the following:

• The newly issued BT card, reissued on demand or on expiry, appears in BT Pay in digital format before a customer takes possession of the physical card.
• Money can be withdrawn by phone from all Banca Transilvania ATMs, based on a code generated from BT Pay and received by SMS.
• Cards issued in Romania by other banks and fintechs for money transfers to BT cards can be included in the application.
• Donations via BT Pay.
• Access to details about each card in the app, such as number, expiry date and CVV, information for quick online purchases.
• Confirm online purchases with BT Pay using biometric authentication or using the phone unlock method.

1 in 4 customers use their BT card in their wallet: the bank has reached over 1 million unique digital cards, out of over 4 million physical cards, which are now active in BT Pay, Apple Pau, Fitbit Pay or Garmin Pay.