We are writing to inform you about changes to your Google Pay experience. As we continue to provide safe and seamless payments to users around the world, we are also simplifying the app experience in the U.S. For years, Google Wallet has been the primary place to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores, alongside your other digital items like transit cards, driver’s license or state IDs, and more. While in-store and online payments via Google Pay are unchanged, the U.S. version of the standalone Google Pay app will no longer be available for use starting June 4, 2024.
Anywhere you normally use Google Pay — from checking out online to tapping and paying in stores — remains the same. If you use your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the Google Wallet app. Learn more about Google Wallet.
Here are the key changes and important dates:
• As of today you will no longer be able to view or activate deals in the app. If you previously activated a deal, and are still waiting for cash back, regular reward timelines apply. We know finding the best deal is important when shopping, which is why we launched a new deals destination on Search.
• Changes to peer-to-peer payments: As of June 4, 2024, you will no longer be able to send money to, request, or receive money from others through the U.S. version of the Google Pay app.
• Manage your Google Pay balance from the Google Pay app until June 4, 2024: You can use the U.S. version of the Google Pay app until June 4, 2024 to view and transfer your Google Pay balance to your bank account. You can continue to view and transfer your funds to your bank account after June 4, 2024 from the Google Pay website. Learn more about transferring money out of Google Pay.
If you have linked accounts on Google Pay to monitor your transactions and insights, you’ll still be able to view your transactions on the Google Pay website in the transactions tab after June 4, 2024. If you wish to disconnect your accounts after June 4, 2024, you will be able to unlink them on the Google Pay website.
If you’ve used the Google Pay app in the U.S. to send money with Wise from the U.S. to India or Singapore, this feature and related transaction information will no longer be available in the app starting June 4, 2024. This does not impact your Wise account, which you can continue to access at wise.com.
Google Payment Corporation’s Customer Service and Error Resolution Policy and applicable processes still apply to report unauthorized transactions related to Google Pay. If you have any further questions about your balance in the app, you can learn more about your Google Pay balance.
For all other questions related to the app, please visit this article or the Google Pay Help Center.
So use google wallet…
Instead of rebranding / upgrading one product, Google continues to make new products and have awkward migrations between them.
And that is why I have been slowly moving away from them one product at a time.
slowly moving away from them one product at a time
you’d make a great google manager!
What alternative is there to Google Wallet?
PayPal, Zelle, Apple Pay, a credit card, cash.
Checks, money orders.
Beaver pelts?
Very small rocks
A duck!
Much like Google Chat became Google Hangouts which became Google Chat, Google Wallet became Google Pay which became Google Wallet again.
How long before Google Play becomes Android Market again? Or YouTube becomes Google Video?
youtube was never google video. Google video was a competitor to youtube, and perplexingly coexisted with youtube for several years after the google youtube aquisition.
Or like when Meet went away, but Talk in Gmail was renamed Meet and Duo also became corporate Meet.
Or something like that. Maybe Allo was involved.
Honestly who can tell at this point?
It’s just a name change, again. It’ll be android pay again in a few months. Then if you’re really sad about loosing Google pay you’ll just need to wait a year or so and it’ll be rebranded Google pay again.
Except it isn’t just a name change because with this change you can no longer use it for person to person payments.
“Google Pay” app is going away, but the “GPay” app is not, and you can use that for person to person transactions. Yay Google naming conventions.
Never knew that was a feature in some countries. Well, typical Google dropping features when rebranding.
But they’ll totally bring the best features from the old one into the new one!
(They do not consider that feature that you care about to be one of the “best features”)
No, the standalone google pay APP is just having it’s features transitioned into google wallet. Google payment services is totally unchanged.
Quote:
Anywhere you normally use Google Pay — from checking out online to tapping and paying in stores — remains the same. If you use your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the Google Wallet app.
Except Google Pay had the ability to send money to/from friends and bill splitting. Wallet has no such features at all. And nothing they’ve published or any news on it seems to mention this. (Which has left me somewhat confused that I’m missing something. But as best as I can tell, I’m not)
Because Google is Google and can’t keep their own shit straight, there is a bit of confusion. “Google Pay” is going away, but “GPay” is not. You can still use the GPay app for person to person transactions. Google Wallet is used for things like tap-to-pay. Both apps link to the same underlying account.
Oh ffs. 🤯
Sure, but OP worded their headline to sound like they were talking about the google payment system itself, which is not what this news is about
I can’t believe I could have used this to send money to India… all the hoops I had to jump through and I could have just used Google pay?
I’ve used Wise before and it’s worked well. There is a fee though, so I’m not sure if it’s better than PayPal. Good luck there.
For some reason Paypal wouldn’t even work. I ended up having to buy items in a game they played and then transferring the account to them so they could then resell it back into Indian Rupees. I tried so many other ways, there were either massive fees or it just wouldn’t work. I could have used crypto, but she didn’t trust it.
Sir degoogle ur life u dont want or need that spyware.
I didn’t even know that was a thing lol
They waste so much money doing this dumb shit all the time. Create 6000 apps that do the same thing and each one is slightly different, then realize how stupid they are then combine them into one. Good old Google 😂
Anyone care to point out highlights? I’m not reading a fcking tos.
The standalone Google Pay app will be shut down.
Google Wallet (which is almost certainly what you’re using) will still be functioning as normal.
As well as losing the ability to send money from person to person. People will have to find another solution for that - Zelle, PayPal, Cashapp, etc.
Nope, you can do that with GPay, which is not the same as Google Pay, which is not the same as Google Wallet, but they all connect to the same account. Yay Google naming 😑.
