PayPal currently has close to 500,000 charities using the platform to accept donations. Nineteen nonprofits are already working with Apple Pay, including the American Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, UNICEF and others. Apple recently said that transactions on its contactless payments service were up 500 percent in Q3 and that it had completed more transactions in September of this year than in all of 2015. Apple Pay is also finally scheduled to open to almost 4 million Australian users, despite boycott threats from four major Australian banks, following a partnership with payments company Cuscal. Happy holidays indeed.