Google Pay will be adding features that enable users to enter account numbers and initiate payments using their voice, split bills within a group and, for merchants, easily build an online storefront, Business Standard reported Thursday (Nov. 18).
“We’ve been on a mission to make money simple, and in general, the way we think about it is creating a lot of economic opportunity for everyone, whether it’s banks or our partners,” Google Pay Vice President of Product Management Ambarish Kenghe told PTI, as quoted in the report.
Kenghe added that the number of merchants now on Google Pay for Business is 10 million and growing, and Google Pay will launch MyShop, which will allow merchants to add images, descriptions and prices to create a storefront easily and then share a link to it on social media, according to the report.
A digital wallet platform, Google Pay expanded access in September to include more than 80 banks in Switzerland, as well as financial institutions (FIs) in Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Italy, Romania, Singapore and Ukraine.
Read more: Google Pay Bolsters Mobile Payment System With New Bank Additions
In addition to beefing up the number of FIs that can use the mobile payment system, Google Pay users in Singapore can send and receive payments to other users. Until recently, this feature was only available to Google Pay users in the U.S. and India.
In addition to more banks including access to Google Pay, in August cryptocurrency services provider BitPay announced that U.S. BitPay pre-paid Mastercard holders could add their cards to Google Wallet and spend their bitcoin and other cryptocurrency on contactless purchases in the app, online and in person with Android devices using Google Pay.
See more: BitPay Adds Google Pay to Wallet App
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