Interesting announcement yesterday, as Google moves on the offensive with a new way to pay on mobile devices.
“Pay with Google” - new way to pay on mobile devices
PaulUK
#2
It’s another option at the POS.
Some may think too many options, however, I’m all for making the POS experience more fluid.
Justin
(Justin)
#3
I agree. A lot of banks have invested a lot of effort and money into Android Pay, Google Pay, MasterPass, Samsung Pay and any number of other schemes I can’t think of right now, and it’s not yet clear which will manage to get the attention of Android users - and that’s in addition to other payment methods such as PayPal. I can see this becoming quite confusing for many customers 
SC95
#4
This would be good for people with Banks like Barclays who are not on Andriod Pay but you can save the card details on your Google account.
crablab
(Hugh)
#5
The PayPal payment mechanisms never really took off because they were too complex and adoption was low. They also launched it alongside Sqaure/iZettle which made the PayPal proposition less valuable because why invest in that when you can take all the cards?!
PayPal now offers it’s own card reader…
Rosie
#6
My understanding was that this was just for online retailers where AFAIK you can’t use Android/Apple Pay etc anyway.
Seems like a much nicer solution than autocomplete with saved card details which is very dependent on how the retailer has set up their fields. And PayPal used to be a PITA to pay with online if you were on a mobile device and had 2FA set up (this may no longer be the case, I don’t use it anymore)
Will be interesting to see if it ever becomes more than a niche thing.
mark1
(Mark Edmonds)
#7
When I’ve gone to markets, cons etc for the last 2 years, many have had the PayPal reader, infact most of my card transactions at these has almost always been using a PayPal reader. It definitely took off in those markets
brandscill
(Brandon Billingham)
#9
So this only works on websites and apps and not via NFC in stores?
crablab
(Hugh)
#10
Yeah, I mean it isn’t new. I was alluded to a couple of years ago - it is just an extension of the Android Pay API. The news really is that it has moved out of the US.