Google Pay Officially Launched on Android; Arrives on Google Play Store

Last month Google appear Google Pay, a simplified payment system that merges Android Pay and Google Wallet. In fact, information technology even started rolling out with Play Services beta update. Nonetheless now, the app is finally bachelor for everyone to download from the Google Play Shop, every bit per a confirmation from a Google blog postal service.

Information technology appears that yous don't take to practice anything to get the update if you already have Android Pay app installed on your telephone. At the moment, the Google Pay app will still show up equally Android Pay on your phone, even though the Play Store listing says "Google Pay."

Google Pay is the company's try at unifying digital payments service across the spider web, in apps, in stores, and through peer-to-peer (P2P). The idea behind Google Pay is to become a ane-stop-shop for all your payment needs. Once everything is in place, your Android Pay business relationship, Chrome payment details and any other cards yous accept added to your Google account will be unified in one app.

Google Pay Officially Launched on Play Store

The Cards tab in the app will store all your payment details including credit and debit cards, loyalty programs, offers, and even gift cards.

Google says that information technology volition add more features to the app down the line and make it compatible across all Google products in the nearly future. This rollout as the showtime step in simplifying its payment system. "If you live in the U.S. or the United kingdom, you lot'll be able to use it to send and request money within the adjacent few months. In the meantime, the Wallet app is at present called Google Pay Send, and we're giving it a fresh glaze of pigment to get with the Google Pay make," Google's post added.

Too, the app is not supported in India just still. We tried installing it from the Google Play Store, but it said all our devices were incompatible. As of now, there is no official word from Google equally to when this service will become live in India and how it will modify the way brand payments. Meanwhile, you tin can go along to utilize Google Tez, which recently added bill payments to its repertoire.