Samsung rewarding users in Korea for purchasing apps from Galaxy Apps

Last updated: Oct 3rd, 2018 at 17:36 UTC+01:00

Samsung has been experimenting with incentives to lure people to some of its apps and services similar Samsung Pay and Bixby. The arroyo is predominantly apparent in Samsung Pay where the company rewards users with points for every transaction through its service. Users can accumulate and redeem these points for gift vouchers, Samsung products, etc. The company used to run a similar rewards program for using Bixby as well merely has ended it in Baronial this year.

It appears Samsung has at present launched a rewards program for the Galaxy Apps shop users in South Korea from Oct 1. The news comes from an declaration post in the Galaxy Apps store after the contempo update. By the looks of it, it seems Samsung has mistakenly made the announcement visible to users fifty-fifty outside of Korea.

The post is in Korean, and the translated version is of not much help to sympathize the effectively details of the program, only the broad concept seems to be that Samsung users in Korea will be able to earn and use rewards points on app downloads from the Galaxy Apps store. Essentially, information technology's a rewards plan to incentivize Samsung users to buy apps from the Galaxy Apps shop over Google Play.

An incentive to use Galaxy Apps store

Users can earn rewards points only on paid apps, and the ratio of earnings will plain depend on the way of payment. Paying through Samsung Pay will fetch users 1% of the purchase cost as rewards points, while direct credit card payments brings the benefit down to 0.five%. App purchases can exist made partly through points, but in such transactions, the rewards points will exist earned simply on the cash component.

The plan requires registration, which can exist done either by going to the More section under Samsung Rewards in the Samsung Pay app or by going to the Samsung Rewards menu under My Apps section of the Galaxy Apps store. The latest update of the Galaxy Apps store is also must for any of this to work. We currently don't know when and if Samsung is planning to launch this program in other markets.