Google Pay (also known as GPay) is a
mobile payments
A mobile payment, also referred to as mobile money, mobile money transfer and mobile wallet, is any of various payment processing services operated under financial regulations and performed from or via a mobile device, as the cardinal class of d ...
application developed by Google. It has been rolled out in India, Singapore, and the United States.
History
On November 18, 2020, Google launched a companion app in the United States. Since the launch of UPI in India, several payment apps like BHIM UPI, PhonePe, Paytm, etc have emerged and Google Pay is also one of them. The BHIM app was the first payment app introduced by the Indian government. Following that, many companies rose to prominence by launching their own UPI app with a better interface and simpler system. It functions as an expansion of the Singaporean and Indian versions of the app, the company announced the
Google Wallet
Google Wallet (or simply Wallet) is a digital wallet platform developed by Google. It is available for the Android, Wear OS, and Fitbit OS operating systems, and was announced on May 11, 2022, at the 2022 Google I/O keynote. It began rollin ...
companion app during the 2022
Google I/O
Google I/O (or simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. "I/O" stands for Input/Output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open". The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day.
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keynote, which replaced the 2018 Google Pay app while co-existing with the 2020 one after it was launched on July 18, 2022.
Country availability
See also
Tez (software)
Tez was a mobile payments service by Google, targeted at users in India, later folded into the new Google Pay (mobile app), Google Pay app on 28 August 2018. It operated atop the Unified Payments Interface, developed by the National Payments Corp ...
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