Google has announced the launch of its Wallet app in India, enabling users to save their digital travel tickets, gift cards, and event passes in one place.
Google Wallet will allow users a fast and secure access to everyday essentials. The service will allow them to conveniently store and retrieve important digital documents like boarding passes, loyalty cards, movie tickets, and more. The new Google Wallet goes hand in hand with Google Pay, which will continue to serve the payments needs of users across India.
What’s in your Google Wallet?
“The arrival of Google Wallet in India can mark an important milestone in Android’s India journey, bringing innovative and convenient experiences to simplify peoples’ daily lives. From boarding passes to loyalty cards, and event tickets to public transport passes – they’re there when you need them,” Ram Papatla, GM and India Engineering Lead, Android at Google, said.
With Google Wallet you will be able to use your phone as your corporate badge, digitalise physical documents, and get tickets automatically transferred to your wallet directly form downloads.
What’s next ?
The company also said that the Google Pay app will remain a separate platform dedicated to payments. This is in contrast to their approach in several other countries, where the wallet and payments functionalities have been merged into a single app.
“We are glad to be the first airline from India to make our boarding passes available directly on Google Wallet. This helps us provide an environmentally friendly solution to our valued guests that also provides digital features such as auto-update of boarding pass details in a convenient central location on their Android phones,” Satya Ramaswamy, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Air India, explained.
However, unlike the Wallet app in other markets like the US, the current iteration in India does not yet support payment features, such as saving debit or credit cards in the wallet for on-tap payments.
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