{"id":949101,"date":"2026-10-28T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949101\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T07:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:14:16","slug":"google-wallet-is-working-on-a-new-international-payment-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949101\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet is working on a new international payment option"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

Add Android Authority on Google: <\/p>\n

TL;DR<\/p>\n

Google Wallet appears to be readying support for QR-code-based Alipay Plus payments.
\nUsers will automatically see the option appear when Wallet detects they\u2019re in supported regions.
\nRight now, a Google support page only explicitly mentions operation with payment networks in Singapore.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re out exploring the world, the last thing you want to worry about is not being able to pay for things. And while we\u2019re not there quite yet, services like Google Wallet<\/a> already go a long way towards giving us a universal payment solution. Now we\u2019re getting an early look at how that\u2019s getting even better, as Wallet prepares to offer an all-new way to pay.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re reading an Authority Insights<\/a> story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the Android Authority team that you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Alipay is a digital wallet that\u2019s big in China, and Alipay Plus<\/a> is its international cousin, supporting payment systems in nations across Southeast Asia. The next time you find yourself in that neck of the woods, Google Wallet could offer you the opportunity to make Alipay Plus payments via QR code.<\/p>\n

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Looking through Google Wallet version 26.42.1003171897, we\u2019re finding work towards a new \u201cOverseas QR payments\u201d option in app settings. Following the \u201cLearn more\u201d link featured on that screen, we find a Google Wallet support page<\/a> for something called Traveler QR.<\/p>\n

As Google highlights there, this option is designed to activate automatically when your phone detects that you\u2019re in a covered region. While Google mentions that includes \u201cany of the supported destinations listed above,\u201d the only one we see specifically named at the moment involves \u201cAlipay+ partner networks in Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that may ultimately expand to Alipay Plus in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and more, but right now we just see Singapore. There\u2019s also the chance that Google isn\u2019t entirely finished building out this support page, anyway \u2014 we don\u2019t find it publicly linked from any others just yet. It does read a little odd to mention \u201cany\u201d supported destinations and only feature one, so maybe we just got here too early.<\/p>\n

All that in mind, we\u2019ll keep an eye out for anything resembling a formal launch announcement for Traveler QR, or maybe even just spot some updates to that support page that help to further clear up what we should expect.<\/p>\n

\u26a0\ufe0f An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: TL;DR Google Wallet appears to be readying support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5497,49,48,192,36044,190,61],"class_list":["post-949101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-authority-insights","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-google","tag-google-wallet","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}