Haven’t Signed up for Apple Pay Yet? Apple Is Offering $5 Introductory Credit for First-Timers

Introduced back in October of 2014, and advertised as one of the iPhone 6’s hallmark features, Apple Pay has become quite the universally accepted and, not to mention, easy-to-use, mobile payments solution.

In the months and years that followed its launch, Cupertino’s payments via iPhone platform has blossomed into a multinational, multimillion-dollar-per-year revenue stream — boasting, according to Apple’s February 2016 report, support at up to two million retailers around the globe.

Best of all though, even despite Apple Pay’s slower than anticipated rollout, the platform just keeps growing and growing as more financial institutions, retail stores, and even gas stations continue to update their infrastructure to EMV chip-card-compatible card readers capable of processing Apple Pay payments.

However, even despite the Silicon Valley tech-giant’s mobile payment solution’s ostensible success story, apparently Apple, itself, isn’t all that satisfied by the number of active users. And so, in a conservative effort to boost those enrollment numbers, the company launched a new promotion earlier this week in the U.S. and U.K. — under the terms of which customers who adopt the platform, and then use it to make a purchase at one of Apple’s retail stores, will be issued a $5 iTunes credit with which they can purchase music, movies, apps, or products.

“Oh wow!” you might be thinking. “Five whole dollars? And I get to keep it??” You’ve got that right, friends! Not only will you automatically receive the $5 credit once Apple Pay has been set-up on your compatible device, and the finalized transaction processes, but Apple will also have in-store specialists standing by — just in case you need help signing up for the service.

Of course, as with all things in life, there’s some good, and some “not so good,” news about Apple’s latest promotion. The good news is that, even if you end up returning your purchase and receiving a refund, Apple will still allow you to keep the $5 iTunes credit. However, if you’ve already signed up for Apple Pay — even if you’re not actively using it, unfortunately you’d be automatically disqualified from receiving the promotion.

In other words, users hoping to cash in on the promo — but who show up at the Apple Store with a previously registered device —simply won’t qualify to receive the $5.

But hey, $5 is still $5, right? Five bucks certainly won’t make or break your purchase (especially at the Apple Store, of all places), but it’s still a nice incentive for those eager for some new Apple products, and who’ve yet to hop aboard the Apple Pay bandwagon.

Have you signed up for Apple Pay yet? Let us know in the comments!