GooglePay Gets Three New Functions for Safer and More Practical Online Shopping

TapTechNews May 23rd news, Google today released a blog announcing that its GooglePay has obtained three new functions, aiming to improve the online shopping experience of users and thus provide a safer and more practical payment method.

TapTechNews note: Here, GooglePay refers to the GooglePay service as an online payment platform, not the GooglePay standalone App that will be discontinued in the US on June 4th.

View Card Benefits

As is well known, most credit cards will provide some user benefits, including shopping points/cash back rewards related to specific merchants and websites, and some can directly provide a certain percentage discount. But if you hold multiple cards with similar benefits at the same time, it may take a little more time to find the one that provides the best offers and rewards.

So, one of the most important functions of this GooglePay update is to quickly compare and view the card benefits held at checkout. It currently supports some American Express cards and CapitalOne cards, and Google plans to support more credit cards in the future.

Buy Now, Pay Later

Google said that this increasingly popular payment method can now be used on more merchant websites and Android applications in the US (previously only supported by Affirm and Zip); users can link their existing buy now, pay later accounts or choose to register a new account.

Auto-fill Function

Finally, GooglePay has also improved its auto-fill function on Chrome and Android. Users can now use biometric authentication methods such as fingerprints, face, or PIN code to verify their identities, so there is no need to manually fill in detailed information such as shipping addresses, bills, and payments, making the payment process faster and safer.

In addition, users can also set a device lock to ensure that their card information will not be seen by others using the device.