Following on from Android Pay’s renaming to Google Pay, Google has launched their second promotion for the mobile payment platform in Australia, and this one’s pretty awesome. Between now and 15 May, every new user you sign up to Google Pay who completes one transaction will net you and your …
Read More »Google Pay begins to replace Android Pay, with sharp new app design
Google’s Android services are slowly moving away from the use of Android in the name, and that change has now arrived for Android Pay .. which is now Google Pay (or G Pay). It looked like this was beginning late last month, but perhaps we jumped a bit too quickly …
Read More »Goodbye Android Pay, Google Pay is here to take your place
If there’s one thing Google’s good at it’s offering multiple versions of a similar thing, just look at messaging or payments. We’ve got Google Wallet and Android Pay as well as the recently announced Pay with Google. Today Google has announced that they are amalgamating all of these services into …
Read More »EFTPOS begins offering Android Pay for ANZ and eight Cuscal backed Financial Institutions
Android Pay has gotten another boost in availability with more than 2 million customers now able to assign their EFTPOS cards to the service. Customers from ANZ, as well as eight Cuscal backed financial institutions which include People’s Choice Credit Union, Sydney Credit Union, Woolworths Employee’s Credit Union, Credit Union …
Read More »Android Pay now working with selected Commonwealth Bank MasterCards
After announcing in September that Commonwealth Bank would launch support for Android Pay later this year, it’s now available for selected cards and there’s a bonus for using Android Pay for Commbank customers. The support is limited with neither Visa or AMEX supported, but a selection of Debit and Credit …
Read More »RACQ Bank adds support for Android Pay
Google continues to add more Australian partners into their Android Pay ecosystem, this week the newly formed RACQ Bank (yeah your Auto Club now has a pretty awesome bank as well) has been added to the ranks of banks who now support Android Pay. RACQ has actually take the step …
Read More »Australian 28 Degrees Credit Card customers can now use Android Pay
The list of Android Pay compatible financial institutions is still growing with 28 Degrees Mastercard customers now able to add their cards to the Android Pay app. The discovery was made by Ausdroid reader Terry who tipped us that it was working, even though the official Android Pay support site …
Read More »Commonwealth Bank announces customers can use Android Pay and Garmin Pay soon
Well. We’re honestly shocked. Long thought to be a long-time holdout the Commonwealth Bank has today announced that they will begin offering customers the option to use both Android Pay and the newly announced Garmin Pay. The Commonwealth Bank says that these new payment partnerships will offer their customers, 4.4 …
Read More »Google and Coles partner for another Android Pay promotion
After a slowish start following the launch of Android Pay in Australia, Android Pay Rewards seems to be having a steady flow of new and, in this case, repeat promotions. Between now and 18 October 2017 you can get $20 worth of flybuys points (4000 points) and go into the …
Read More »Five new Australian banks now support Android Pay
Who knew there were this many financial institutions in Australia? Well, another five have this week signed onto allow their customers to use Android Pay. The list of Android Pay compatible banks now numbers 52 in total, up from the just under 30 that signed on last July when Android …
Read More »LG Pay to expand to include all new low-price budget LG devices from next year
LG’s mobile payment service, LG Pay, which is currently only available in South Korea on the LG G6, is due to expand next year to be included on all new LG budget priced devices in 2018. The LG Pay service is still yet to be expanded beyond the borders of …
Read More »Qantas launches their new Premium Mastercard with Android Pay to get you in the air faster
We’ve been watching the rollout of Android Pay since the payment platform was launched in Australia last year, and we have to admit we were surprised when the latest institution to announce support for the growing platform wasn’t a Bank, but Qantas Airlines, thanks to Australian Business Traveller for the …
Read More »Paying with Google: the all new Google Payments and updates for Android Pay
During the IO 2017 Keynote Google revealed their new Google Payments API intended to provide developers with a way to implement seamless payments across the Web, Mobile and even via Google Assistant. The Google Payments API provides all the tools developers need to let users pay for our online goods …
Read More »Google partners with international banks to allow you to add cards to Android pay from within the Banks Android app
Google has announced today that they are starting to partner with international banks, Bank of America, Bank of New Zealand, Discover, mBank and USAA to start, to allow users to add their credit cards to the Android Pay app from within the Banks Android app. Currently to add a new …
Read More »Woolworths Limited retail brands officially join Android Pay as Featured Stores
Android Pay’s roll-out in Australia continues to march forward with Google slowly adding on more financial institutions, retail partners and in-app payment integrations. At launch it was notable that Coles Group line of retail stores was included at launch retail partners but Woolworths Limited stores were not, that all changed …
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