{"id":661405,"date":"2026-10-30T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661405\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:36:20","slug":"google-says-its-developing-new-cross-border-payment-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661405\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Says It\u2019s Developing New Cross-Border Payment Option"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> is reportedly developing a new travel payments capability for its digital wallet.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> Tuesday (Oct. 27) from the website Android Authority, the new Google Wallet capability would let travelers make QR-code-based payments overseas using the Alipay Plus<\/a> network.<\/p>\n

The report is based on code found within a recent update to the Android application, indicating that Google Wallet is preparing an \u201cOverseas QR payments\u201d setting designed to activate automatically when users travel to supported international destinations.<\/p>\n

According to the support page, the feature is designed to turn on automatically when the device detects it is located in a covered region.<\/p>\n

The payment option connects Google Wallet to Alipay Plus (Alipay+), an international cross-border payment<\/a> platform that links with regional merchant payment systems in Southeast Asia. Alipay Plus is the international counterpart to China\u2019s domestic Alipay wallet.<\/p>\n

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While Alipay Plus supports payment networks across multiple Southeast Asian countries, Google\u2019s support documentation so far lists only one destination, according to the report, saying the feature works in \u201cany of the supported destinations listed above,\u201d but explicitly names only Singapore.<\/p>\n

However, Android Authority said support could eventually encompass Alipay Plus networks in other regional markets such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

The report noted that Google has not yet issued a formal announcement or released a timeline for the feature. A spokesperson for Google told PYMNTS the company is \u201calways experimenting with new ways to help consumers, but have nothing further to share at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other digital wallet news, recent PYMNTS Intelligence research shows that merchants could hold onto more customers by accepting the digital wallets those buyers already use, with \u201cwallet gaps\u201d putting around 36 million U.S. consumers in danger of walking away.<\/p>\n

This finding comes from \u201cThe Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes Next,\u201d<\/a> a PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in partnership with PayPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Research from that report showed that 21% of consumers abandoned an online cart in the prior 30 days because their preferred payment method wasn\u2019t available.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor merchants, adding payment choices<\/a> offers a practical opportunity to complete purchases shoppers had already decided to make,\u201d PYMNTS wrote last week. \u201cA checkout without the preferred wallet is like a store with the right merchandise but a locked door at the register.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is reportedly developing a new travel payments capability for its digital wallet. According to a report Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11721,11115,85,46,321,59482,43,29292,262,125,244,68130,264],"class_list":["post-661405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-digital-payments","tag-digital-wallets","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-wallets","tag-news","tag-payment-methods","tag-pymnts-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-travel-payments","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}