Last week PayPal announced on its blog that it now offers fingerprint authentication for the Samsung Galaxy S Tab. Customers can now use their fingerprint to log in and pay at millions of merchants that accept PayPal on mobile and in stores, wrote PayPal Global Product Launch Director Matt Gromada.
“This is a big deal because Forrester predicts consumers will spend $76 billion this year on goods and services shopping on tablets,” Gromada wrote on the PayPal blog. “So, we’d like to make peoples’ shopping experiences as easy as possible.”
The fingerprint authentication will roll out in 27 markets across the globe. According to PayPal, the U.S. and Canada will receive the technology first, and other countries such as Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom will have the ability later this summer.
Gromada added that Galaxy Tab S users will get over $50 worth of offers to use at select businesses that accept PayPal, so customers can “get the most out of [their] shopping experience” on their tablet.
PayPal is on a roll with its new offerings. Also last week, the company announced that its app would soon be available in Beta on Android Wear.
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