Android Pay teams up with PayPal in the US.

Android Pay has steadily been adding support for more and more banks in the past few months, but soon there's going to be another partner for Google's payment system: PayPal.

Support for PayPal accounts is coming to Android Pay in the US "within the next few weeks". You'll be able to initiate the pairing of your PayPal account to your Android Pay account from either of the eponymous mobile apps for Android.

hen when you make a payment through Android Pay, your PayPal account's balance will be used. At some point in the coming months PayPal will add the ability to use the cards that you have stored on its service. When this functionality becomes live, you'll essentially be able to add your card to PayPal (if it's unsupported directly in Android Pay), and when you pay for something with the Android Pay app the money will go from that card to PayPal to Google to the store you're purchasing from - all in one seamless fell swoop.

This will work wherever Android Pay is accepted - in-store, in-app, and online.

Android Pay gains support for 18 more banks

In total, 18 more banks have made it to the list. The names include Bank of Stockton, Boundary Waters Bank, Citizens Bank of the South, Country Bank for Savings, Countryside Bank, First Green Bank, First State Bank of the Florida Keys, and Indiana University Credit Union.

Android Pay's list of supported banks/financial institutions has been growing at a rapid rate. Last month, the service's list of supported banks in the US crossed the 600 mark. And now, some more names have been added to the list.

The rest of the names are Greenfield Cooperative Bank, Maquoketa State Bank, McFarland State Bank, The Conway National Bank, The Infirmary Federal Credit Union, Barksdale Federal Credit Union, Florence Savings Bank, J.S.C. Federal Credit Union, O Bee Credit Union, and Security State Bank Of Hibbing.

Android Pay's support for PayPal starts rolling out.Technewnows

Not only this, Google has also updated its Android Pay US help page, adding PayPal as an option in Supported accounts & services category.

Over a month after it was officially announced, Android Pay's support for PayPal has started rolling out. Some users in the United States are seeing PayPal as a payment option in their Android Pay app.

The listing reveals that the mobile payments service currently supports all PayPal-linked debit cards or bank accounts. However, linked credit cards aren't yet supported.

Android Pay to support PayPal cards and Visa Checkout, v1.13 APK teardown reveals.

Android Pay has recently been updated to version 1.13, and while this didn’t add many new changes to the payment app’s interface or otherwise, an APK teardown reveals more about the future capabilities of Android Pay. The mobile payment app will (at some time in the future) allow users to add their PayPal cards and the ability to support Visa Checkout.

Thanks to a deal previously established between PayPal and Discover, places where Discover is normally accepted would enable these terminals with PayPal support. A similar deal returned the favor which allows PayPal access to Discover’s tokens, which are needed to accept contactless payment services, i.e. Android Pay.

At the end of the day, what the latter means is that Android Pay would start supporting PayPal (and/or PayPal cards) thanks to Discover’s tokens which create virtual account numbers for transactions. The code string found in the APK teardown reads: "A virtual Discover account was used to make this purchase". It doesn’t specifically mention ‘PayPal’, but this is implied.


Moving on to Visa Checkout, whose partnership was announced back in October alongside Masterpass, it allows Visa card holders to pay merchants without disclosing any credit card information. So basically like PayPal for Visa cards. The corresponding string of text that refers to Visa Checkout is the following: "This number was issued by %1$s. It’s used when you make purchases with Visa Checkout in Android Pay.”

As more services and banks are added to Android Pay and other various mobile payment services, we are slowly but surely moving past the need to use our own physical credit cards to make payments. Now it’s a matter of widely adopting new terminals to accept mobile payments.

PayPal support comes to Samsung Pay Technewnows

Samsung has added PayPal as a payment method "Users simply add their PayPal account to Samsung Pay, and can then spend the balance anywhere Samsung Pay is accepted," the South Korean tech giant said in a press release.

Samsung has added PayPal as a payment method in its mobile payments service Samsung Pay. Effectively, Pay users can now use their PayPal balance to make purchases anywhere - in-app, online and in eligible stores.

Currently, the feature is only available in the United States, but the company says it will expand to other countries soon - specific markets and exact timeframes, however, weren't revealed.

This comes just a few months after Google announced that it's teaming up with PayPal for Android Pay in the US. The feature started rolling out in the country in May.

Facebook Messenger users can now send/receive money through PayPal.Technewnows

The feature is currently only rolling out in the US and limited to iOS, with Android support coming soon.

Meanwhile, PayPal also introduced a customer service bot for Messenger, allowing you to seamlessly receive payment and account support directly in the messaging app.

To get it you have to search for PayPal in the search field and type a message and the bot will assist you with your request.



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Whats App Payments feature which is based on UPI has started rolling out in India which will mean that you will be able to send money to your friends and family right from Whats App. The most widely used messaging service across the globe started rolling out the UPI-based Payments feature in India to select users last week. The app is already popular with Indian users across different age groups who love to send "good morning" texts to kick start the day and adding the Payments feature just makes more sense for the messaging app.

The roll out of Whats App Payments has started from India which means that the company is looking to end the dominance of apps like Paytm, Google Tez, and another digital wallet app that have been around for a long time.

With over 200 million monthly active users in India, Whats App shouldn't face any trouble bringing its large user base to get a taste of Payments feature. Face book's move to bring Payments feature to India first on Whats App clearly seems a way to cash in on the digital payment in its early days. The Whats App Payments feature was being tested as a beta feature with select users but now more users have started receiving the feature.

It was no secret as Whats App was reportedly in talks with top Indian banks for months to integrate Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Unlike previously believed, the Whats App Payments feature is being rolled out to both Android as well as iOS users simultaneously.

How to send money using WhatsApp payments

The WhatsApp Payments will be limited to peer-to-peer payment and does not offer merchant payment, as of now.