When do you think Disneyland is going to update the Magic Band+ system to include merchandise discounts?

[LKing]

While we're on the subject of payment information, can you or can you not apply a Disney Gift Card to a Magic Key or a Ticket through the website, or at least add it to an online balance that can be applied to a Ticket/Key later?

I get a $25 gift card every month for donating platelets/plasma with Lifestream, usually I use it for Amazon or Gamestop, but if I can apply a Disney card instead to a future ticket or MK I'd like to do that instead.

To purchase a MK with multiple forms of payment, you need to purchase at the ticket booth. Online only takes one form of payment. If you have multiple GC, you need to combine them into one before buying your MK.

 

[Kender]

In reality, with a line of people trying to purchase food or merchandise, cast members don't have time to police this.

My spouse has a MK with a larger food & merchandise discount than mine. We did that so that one of us has free parking. I have never been stopped and told that my spouse has to be the one paying, or that they can't buy something that wasn't for their personal use. If we eat together are we supposed to ask for a split bill and each pay for our own meal with our own MK discount?

I usually screen shot my MK so that I don't have to worry about pulling it up in areas of the park with poor cell reception. Only once was I asked to show the original screen instead of a screen shot. My spouse was standing next to me, but I was paying. I am able to pull up my spouse's pass on my phone, so I was the one showing my spouse's MK. They didn't ask for ID, but only wanted to see that it was a current, valid pass.

We go to D23 events and purchase merchandise at the Burbank studios or Mickeys of Glendale. Interestingly, the merchandise at those stores is approx. 20% cheaper than the same merchandise at the parks.

At the end of the day it's still officially against the rules (and I gave the exact quote and link to the terms and conditions) to use your discount for someone else's purchase. Your situation is slightly different than the person I responded to, though. But technically yes. If using your spouse's MK, officially the card paying is supposed to be in your spouse's name.

I have run into being told it must match. Both my mom and I have the same level MK so in theory it shouldn't matter which is scanned as the discounts are the same, but some CMs do check and care the card matches the MK. YMMV what you encounter. That's the official rule, though, regardless of your personal experience.

It's the same with parking. If your spouse is not with you, you cannot use the parking benefit. And this they do check more than not as your picture does pop up.

The rules do allow for purchasing for others, though. Just not using your discount to cover someone else's purchase when they are paying. You can also use your parking benefit to park someone else's car as long as you are in the car.

So I can buy my friend's meals or merch on my own dime as gifts, but officially I'm not allowed to ask them to pay me back (as it would make it their purchase, not mine) or let them pay. It's the same thing with CM discounts. My CM friends can purchase things for me with their discount, but officially I'm not allowed to pay them back. I can sit in a friend's car and scan my pass to park their car instead of mine.

There's nothing to debate with this. It's what the rules are and that's all I originally stated was what was officially against the terms and conditions

 

[Kender]

I have my wish list of things for them to add to their next software upgrade.

1. Parking - It seems inefficient for the parking attendant to walk out of the booth, scan our pass/collect payment, then go back in the booth to hit enter and print our receipt. Is the slow process a means of traffic control?

2. MK, Apple Pay and electronic gift cards at sit down restaurants. They usually take an image of the MK then go back to the register to scan it. They can't (or shouldn't) take an image of an electronic GC, so CM either take your phone, or ask the guest to walk up to the register to scan the GC. It would be more efficient to have a handheld device that can scan MK and electronic payments at the table.

They already have a handheld device to scan MKs at the table. They've had them for awhile (at least a year+).

Also not just Apple Pay: all NFC payment options.

 

[LKing]

They already have a handheld device to scan MKs at the table. They've had them for awhile (at least a year+).

I always use a gift card to pay so walk up the register with the CM. The device they use to "scan" the MK doesn't actually scan it. It takes an image that they hold under the scanner at the register.

 

[Kender]

I always use a gift card to pay so walk up the register with the CM. The device they use to "scan" the MK doesn't actually scan it. It takes an image that they hold under the scanner at the register.

I'm going to believe what the CMs told me that the scanner in their hands actually scan the pass and doesn't just take a picture . They were very excited when they got them in finally.

It could be it's actually scanning it like when we scan tickets into our app and it holds the ticket there as a live barcode. But I wouldn't be surprised it has to be scanned a second time as that's probably more efficient than sending it over the air. Nothing more than a picture could leave it open to potential human errors. I don't follow them up, but I do like to ask about new tech they get.

Even if they could complete the whole transaction at the table, that would mean they'd also need an update to handheld machines that can print the receipt at the table. I don't see things going that far. But it would be nice to add in a way to accept electronic payments at the table. They'd still have to leave and return with a receipt a time or two, though, unless they had handheld printers.

Not that I wouldn't love to be able to tap pay at the table. I've been using tap for a decade (in increasing amounts as it got adopted more places) and prefer it to pulling out my actual physical card.