Google Pay kills website and adds fees on instant transfers
Google has made major changes to its digital payments platform, Google Pay, in the past two weeks. For those who haven’t noticed the change, the company recently revised the logo and design of the platform. But it looks like Google isn’t done transforming Google Pay just yet, as it plans to make many more changes to the platform.
For starters, the company plans to take down its web app in early January. From now on, the Google Pay web app offers the ability to manage payment methods. It also allows users to send money to family and friends. Now, the company is said to be killing the web app or at least part of it.
According to a 9TB5 Google report, Google will not allow users to send or receive money from its web app starting in January 2021. Users will be able to send or receive money from the new Google app. Company pay.
“From the beginning of 2021, you will no longer be able to use pay.google.com to send and receive money from other people. To send and receive money, use the new Google Pay app,” said the company in a notice posted on the web application.
Although users will not be able to transfer or receive money, they will still be able to use the platform to manage payment methods.
Apart from that, Google is also adding new fees on instant transfers made through Google Pay. This means that if users try to transfer money from their Google Pay accounts to their debit cards via instant transfer, they will either have to pay 1.5% or 31 cents, whichever is greater, reports Android Police. .
The catch, however, is that these fees on instant transfers are only valid for Google Pay users in the United States. Google Pay users in India will not have to pay such fees.
