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Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge
“Buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments, often interest-free, which can allow shoppers to get their purchase upfront, instead of having to wait until it’s paid in full.
Usually, BNPL is offered in specific ecommerce websites like Target, Walmart. But now, Microsoft partners with 3rd party Zip (previously Quadpay) to offer a BNPL payment option at browser level. It means any purchase between $35 - $1,000 you make through Microsoft Edge can be split into 4 installments over 6 weeks.
On top of coverage, we also aim to 1) meet you where you are. 2) simplify the application process.
Meet you where you are:
When you are in checkout page, you can find BNPL option right when you enter credit card number
For some shoppers, you can also find BNPL option right when you enter checkout page.
Simplify application process:
Applying BNPL could take time, you need to sign in with zip every single time. With BNPL in Edge, you can simply link your Microsoft account with your zip account with one click and then bypass sign in from Zip side. It can expedite the application process for you.
BNPL is currently available in Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev channels and will be available by default to all users in Microsoft Edge release 96. If you experience any issue while using this feature, please let us know through Microsoft Edge by pressing Shift+Alt+I on a Windows device or going to Settings and more … > Help and feedback > Send feedback.
You can read more on the FAQ support article. Please also join us here on the Microsoft Edge Insider forums or Twitter to discuss your experience or send us your feedback through the browser! We hope you enjoy this exciting new feature and look forward to hearing from you!
263 Replies
- lkeplarCopper ContributorThis is an extraordinarily bad idea. On so many levels. Short term loan programs are predatory, targeting the most vulnerable and poorest populations with high penalties.
Edge is already has an optics issue. This just makes it so much worse. - Michael StephensonCopper ContributorJust no... This is a terrible idea on so many levels!
- TalnoyCopper ContributorI legit made an account here to comment.
Stop. Doing. This.
You've already got enough money. Just make the browser better than Chrome and people will use it. Tying ads in just to convert easily swayed people who don't have money into buying things they don't need or otherwise wouldn't buy is just gross.
Stop this. - Chris985Brass ContributorWhy are you doing this? Why should this be part of the browser instead of an extension? Whose idea was this? Who asked for this?
- Harry_PayneCopper ContributorAnother reason not to have Edge as my browser of choice on Windows. Allow this an optional plugin if you must, but not as something baked into the browser itself. Please.
- Pandemonium_JohnCopper ContributorThis feature is unnecessary and predatory. I've always used PCs but between the endless tracking you've added to every native program - thereby slowing my machine to the point it's almost unusable until I go in and disable a dozen programs - and the fact you didn't automatically make this blatant cash grab an extension has me saving up for a Mac.
In the meantime, thank you for reminding me to export my family's bookmarks & remove Edge from our desktop shortcut panels & menu bars. We won't be using your browser ever again. - dgaustCopper ContributorNo thanks. Focus on democratising the web, not commercial debt partnerships.
- MattMmCopper ContributorYep I just started using Edge instead of Chrome but this has convinced me to go back to Chrome.
- MichaelDarbyCopper Contributor
How do I turn this off? I don't want to spend one CPU cycle on this and I don't want it popping up.
- early_steveBrass ContributorSo far in my (Dev) release, a search of Settings does not turn up any likely suspects. Maybe its a semi-hidden flags thing.
I just don't get it. Microsoft showed such model-citizen good behavior on Edge for a while and now this and some other pushy moves.
- ABUCopper ContributorI switched to Edge from Chrome for this. If it rolls out to stable I am pretty much sure I would find a way to uninstall Edge completely.
- Eddie24361Copper Contributor
You can't uninstall edge. It's like a cancer entwined in every aspect of Windows. If you remove it, it only comes back with the next windows update. There was an app that allowed you to bypass Edge but Microsoft found a way to disable that. Bing is also so tied to Edge. The only way I could get my searches back to Google was to block Bing at the router level. Microsoft brags about how Edge is moving up in browser percentage but that's only because it automatically launches with Windows. If Edge is so good let it stand on it's own and let users decide if it is great. ABU