Google Pay | How To Set Up Google Pay

How To Set Up Google Pay: Google Pay is a digital wallet platform that takes care of online payment. It was developed by Google to power in-app and makes use of tap-to-pay purchases on mobile devices.

This allows users to make payments with their Android phones, tablets or Watches. Android Pay was redesigned and named Google Pay and as at January 8, 2018, the Old Android Pay and Google Wallet had been unified into a single pay system now known as Google Pay.

Google Pay uses the features found in both Google Wallet and Android Pay through its in-store, Peer-to-peer, and online payments services.

Benefits Of Google Pay

• It makes sales services faster and eases checking out in stores, leading to more store visits, spending more money in lesser time.
• Using Google Pay, customers are not redirected to a third party site and they stay within their checkout flow for the entire transaction.
• Simple online Integration.
• Transactions are carried out without charges.
• Tighter security through the use of Google tokens that helps reduce merchant risk and exposure to fraud.
• Customers can speed through checkout when they use Google Pay on their mobile device to tap and pay.
• It is a free mobile app available in the Google Play Store.
• It uses a virtual account number to represent the account information off user’s and they don’t have to send their credit details when making payments.

Steps On How To Set Up Google Pay

On Computer

• Visit the website: pay.google.com and sign in.
• Choose a payment method.
• Next, you can pay in-store only on Android devices and select countries only.
• You can also send money or pay a request in US/UK only.
• Pay on an app or website.

For Phones

• Download Google pay from the Play Store.
• Follow carefully the instructions on setup provided on the app.
• Add a card.
• (It works with PIN, Pattern, password, fingerprints, or retina scanning screen locks)
• Make sure the devices meet software standards and has NFC turned on.
• In you have another in-store payment app on your phone make Google pay the default payment app.
• Choose a payment method.
• Pay in stores.
• You can send money or pay a request.
• Pay on an app or website.