Google Pay App

Google announced last month that it was bringing

Android Pay and Google Wallet together under the

new Google Pay brand. Today, the big rollout begins,

with the new Google Pay-branded app now available

through Google Play.

If you already have the Android Pay app installed, it

appears you won’t need to do anything. However, the

app currently still shows up as “Android Pay” on your

phone, despite appearing as “Google Pay” through the

Google Play store on the web. The transition is evidently

still underway.

Muddy waters

Google’s digital payment setup has so far been a little

muddy, given that Android Pay was for online, in-app,

and retail purchases using an Android phone, while

Google Wallet was a P2P payment service for those

with a debit card or bank account in the U.S. or U.K.

and worked on Android and iOS.

Google Pay represents the company’s attempt to unify
and simplify its digital payments service across the web,
in apps, in stores, and through peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.
It also constitutes the service formerly known as Pay With
Google, which is an API that allows merchants to offer online
shoppers a simpler way to enter their payment details at
checkout.