Google Wallet app launched in India, will work with Google Pay

The company launched Google Wallet in India on Wednesday. The app is designed to store boarding passes, loyalty and gift cards, event passes, car keys, and transit tickets. The app can also digitize some physical documents and store them for easy access. While the company had previously integrated its payments and wallet apps in other markets, it has confirmed that the Google Wallet app will continue to be present in India along with the Google Pay app, which will continue to handle payments through NPCI’s UPI network and supported bank cards. Will keep.

At a launch event on Wednesday, the company announced that the Google Wallet app will be available to download on Android smartphones through the Google Play store in India. The app was spotted on the Play Store last month with screenshots indicating support for various features in India, such as storing and displaying flight tickets, loyalty cards, event tickets and transit cards.

Google says it has partnered with more than 20 companies in India, including PVR, Inox, Air India, Indigo, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, Easemytrip, Ixigo and Pine Labs. The company will also add support for more companies in the coming months.

According to the company, users will be able to add movie and event tickets from PVR and Inox to Google Wallet. Meanwhile, the mobile boarding pass can also be added to Google Wallet for easy access – the app currently supports Air India and Air India Express flights through companies like MakeMyTrip, Easemytrip and Ixigo. Users will also be able to access transit cards for services like Kochi Metro, Hyderabad Metro, VRL Travels and Abhibus through the app.

The Google Wallet app will also allow Indian users to scan physical documents like luggage tags, parking receipts and printed airline boarding passes using QR codes or barcodes. Corporate badges can also be added to Google Wallet, as the company has partnered with integrators like Wavelynx and Alert Enterprise.

If users have Smart Personalization Settings According to the company, enabled in Gmail, the Google Wallet app will automatically fetch and display IPL, movie and train tickets using the event confirmation sent to the user. The Google Wallet app will also let users access digital versions of their loyalty cards for Flipkart, Domino’s, and Shoppers Stop.

It’s worth noting that unlike global markets, where the company has integrated its payments apps, Google Wallet and Google Pay apps will continue to work independently of each other in India. While the Google Wallet app will provide access to all the features mentioned above, access to UPI payments and contactless payments (tap-to-pay) using supported bank cards will be available through Google Pay in India.