Non-banking services include a food order service to some 100,000 restaurants, in-app gas purchases at over 30,000 gas stations and in-app parking payments in 400 US cities. And users have the option to connect their transaction history, so Google can offer more personalisation. Like a banking app, Google Pay will send alerts when users pay a new person. If a user searches “food,” “last month,” or “Mexican restaurants”, they can find the relevant transactions on the cards they have connected. The app’s payment categorisations are more sophisticated than other banking apps. “If you choose to connect your bank account or cards to Google Pay, the app will provide periodic spending summaries and show your trends and insights over time,” the Big Tech says in a statement. Google Pay customers can tap to activate these discounts, which are then automatically applied on payments in store or online. Reward partners designed to help users save include Burger King, Etsy, and Target.

Users can also split and calculate expenses such as rent or a dinner via a group in Google Pay.

Transaction displays are now based around conversations. The overhaul sees it take on PayPal’s peer-to-peer (P2P) service Venmo, Intuit’s budget tracker Mint, and Shopify’s package and order tracker Shop. Plex in the wider Google Pay app ecosystemĪs well as announcing Plex, Google Pay has also undergone a major revamp. The localhost page on the server machine discovers my Android devices when clicked on the 'cast' icon, but Android phones cannot locate the server. I've tried adding manual connection in the Android app, but it doesn't work. Other partners include BankMobile, BBVA USA, BMO Harris, Coastal Community Bank, First Independence Bank, and SEFCU. I don't want to add a plex account, because I just want to use it on my LAN anyway. Worldwide, Google Pay has more than 150 million monthly active customers across 30 different countries.Ĭurrently, US consumers can register for an account via a waitlist with Citi or Stanford Federal Credit Union (SFCU). Plex will sit in the wider, revamped Google Pay appĬome 2021, the US Big Tech’s 11 bank and credit union partners will offer Plex accounts to US consumers.