Revolut Pay with Smile Trial: Face-Pay on Register POS

Revolut is piloting Pay with Smile, opt-in facial recognition at the till, on its new Revolut Register POS at three Kiss the Hippo cafés in London from Sept 24–26, 2026.

Customers who opt in pay by matching their face to their Revolut onboarding selfie, and settlement runs account-to-account with 0% merchant processing fees during the trial. We unpack what is actually live (three days, one café chain, wider Register sales "in due course"), how Register, Revolut Pay and biometric A2A collapse into one checkout, and what UK GDPR and the ICO's special-category biometric guidance still require.

What you'll learn:

• What the customer-facing screen actually shows at checkout
• How the face match, opt-in and £200+ step-up authentication work
• How account-to-account settlement and the 0% merchant fee fit together
• The privacy claims: opt-in only, no face data stored by the merchant
• Trial vs go-live, and what to watch before a wider UK rollout

Keywords: Revolut, Pay with Smile, Revolut Register, facial recognition payments, biometric POS, Kiss the Hippo, A2A payments, UK GDPR, ICO, merchant acquiring, fintech.

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:00 Intro: Revolut's Pay with Smile trial