If your balance is running low, you can quickly tap and add fare before you arrive at the station. For example, when you add a transit card from a supported agency to Wallet, your card and balance will automatically show up in Google Maps when you search for directions. We’re also developing smooth integrations with other Google apps and services. Google Wallet will be available in Australia on Android and Wear OS and will standardise the way you save and access essential items such as payment and vaccine cards, transit and event tickets, boarding and loyalty passes. Today, Google Pay app will become Google Wallet and support new digital items. Over the last few years, we have also seen a need for a safe and simple way to save and access new digital items such as car keys, digital IDs and vaccine records. Eventually allowing it to store gift cards, tickets, membership cards and more.Millions of people use their phones everyday to tap and ride public transport, save event tickets and boarding passes and pay at stores. In supported regions, both peer-to-peer payments and digital wallet functionality were folded into the same app.Īs we mentioned earlier, in recent years, Google has been adding more and more functionality to Google Pay.
In 2018, Google merged its Google Wallet and Android Pay services, bringing everything under the moniker of Google Pay. Google Wallet continued to exist as a peer-to-peer money-sending app, much like Google Pay is today (confused enough yet?).
Secondly, it was much easier to use, it didn't require finding the app and entering a pin, users could simply unlock their phone and place it over the reader to pay. There were two key differentiators with Android Pay, firstly it was built-in to Android so you didn't have to download an additional app. Google Wallet wasn't used by many people and was initially restricted to the Google Nexus phone.Īfter about four years, Google Wallet was replaced by Android Pay. At the time, contactless payments were a new phenomenon, and NFC was yet to be widely adopted by the Android phone market.
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