That title is very misleading, it ONLY impacts the US version
This talks about having a balance, does Google Pay offer accounts in the US, or am I getting myself mixed up with another product?
[Edit] I don't think I'm getting mixed up.
> Google Pay is the fast, simple way to pay on sites, in apps, and in stores using the cards saved to your Google Account.
Google Wallet appears to expose Google Pay on Android devices, but is just an interface to Google Pay.
It used to be the Google Pay app but was rebranded as Google Wallet. And Google Pay app is something else?
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Google Pay is the fast, simple way to pay on sites, in apps, and in stores using the cards saved to your Google Account.
:Add a card to Google Pay:
And download Google Wallet to pay with your Android device.
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I think Google Wallet is just the Android app to use Google Pay and you use it to save cards *to* Google Pay. They even have a link to "Add a card to Google Pay". Pretty sure a couple of years ago Google Wallet was called Google Pay, but they renamed it. Presumably for whatever service Google Pay App is.
Really confusing. Classic Google.
Here in the UK I can just send people money immediately, and been able to do that for decades.
My bank offers a US routing and account number so that Americans can transfer money, since the banks over there struggle with international payments.
I then found out that my in-laws still can't transfer money because their bank has removed the ability to send money to another account that isn't via Venmo.
It's not "messed up" it's hostile.
> This article is about the mobile app introduced in 2022. For the discontinued service of the same name, see Google Wallet (2011–2018).
> "Google Pay (2018–2022)" redirects here. For the 2020 app, see Google Pay (mobile app).
There's the old Google Pay app that got rebranded as Google Wallet.
And then there's a newer Google Pay app available only in the US, Singapore, and India. This is the one getting shutdown.
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pay
And a very helpful chart: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Googlepayments.svg
Like its all middle management machiavellianism at this s point.
The far right branch is the "Next Billion Users" stream that launched Tez, which at the time was explicitly and solely for the Indian market, but since it was superior to the Google Wallet/Pay at the time, the VP lead decided to aim for global adoption, which was the previous Pay-->Wallet-->Pay nonsense a couple years ago. That has failed, so now everything is reverting back to the original/primary branch on the far left, which is and has always been, owned by the Android team.