What’s new in Google Pay — Google for Builders Weblog

Posted by Jose Ugia – Developer Relations Engineer

Throughout Google I/O 2023, we shared among the new options we’re including to Google Pay and mentioned how you should use them to simplify and strengthen your integrations, and add worth to your clients making funds in your utility or web site.

Learn on for a abstract of what we lined through the occasion, or take a look at the recording of our session on YouTube: What’s new in Google Pay and Google Pockets.

Legal responsibility shift on eligible transactions with Google Pay

Google Pay is increasing its zero fraud legal responsibility safety on Android units for eligible transactions leveraging main fee community safety capabilities. Earlier than in the present day, on-line funds made with a Mastercard have been assured by this safety. As we speak, we’re saying that we’re increasing this profit by rolling out service provider legal responsibility safety to eligible Visa on-line transactions which are made utilizing Google Pay.

As well as, we’re making it simple to confirm and add types of funds to Google Pay. As only one instance, Google Pay has added help for card authentication each earlier than and after a fee transaction. Google Pay customers are actually in a position to confirm their saved card through an OTP code or their banking app which creates a device-bound token that helps safe and seamless transactions each on-line and offline.

Scale back fraud with Google Pay

As a part of our mission that will help you cut back fraud and enhance authorization charges with out growing person friction, we’re actively engaged on a brand new service — Safe Fee Authentication, a service constructed to assist with danger and compliance based mostly authentication wants. This service can be utilized for eligible fee transactions that require further verification, and use safe and excessive performing machine sure tokens to satisfy two-factor authentication.

We’re utilizing this chance to have interaction with companies such as you as a part of an early entry program, to know the way it will help you enhance authorization efficiency. If fraud is a problem for your corporation in the present day, contact us to tailor your authentication technique with Safe Fee Authentication.

The brand new dynamic button

We’re giving the Google Pay button a recent new look, making use of the newest Materials 3 design ideas. The brand new Google Pay button is available in two variations that make it look nice on each darkish and light-weight themed purposes.

We’re additionally introducing a brand new button view that simplifies the combination on Android. This view helps you to configure properties just like the button theme and nook radius straight in your XML format. The brand new button API is accessible in the present day in beta. Take a look at the up to date tutorial for Android to start out utilizing the brand new button view in the present day.

Later this quarter, you’ll be capable of configure the brand new button view for Android to indicate your customers further details about the final card they used to finish a fee with Google Pay.

An improved take a look at suite with fee service supplier playing cards

We’re introducing PSP take a look at playing cards, an improve to Google Pay’s take a look at suite that permits you to use take a look at playing cards out of your favourite fee processors to construct end-to-end take a look at situations. With this improve, you’ll now see particular take a look at playing cards out of your processor populate in Google Pay’s fee sheet, enabling further testing methods, each guide and automatic.

This improve additionally helps take a look at automation, so you possibly can write end-to-end UI exams utilizing acquainted instruments like UIAutomator and Espresso on Android, and embrace them in your CI/CD flows to additional strengthen your checkout experiences. The brand new era of Google Pay’s take a look at suite is presently in beta, with net help coming later this yr.

Digital playing cards, autofill and extra

Final yr we launched digital playing cards on Android and Chrome. Since then, we’ve seen nice adoption, offering safe and frictionless on-line checkout experiences for thousands and thousands of customers. Prospects utilizing digital playing cards have loved sooner checkouts, reported much less fraudulent spend, and made on-line transactions that have been declined much less usually.

Autofill is receiving visible enhancements to cut back checkout friction, and can quickly let your clients full fee flows utilizing financial institution accounts in Europe. For builders utilizing autofill, we’re introducing suggestions in Chrome DevTools that will help you enhance checkout efficiency. We’re additionally enhancing autofill to raised fill kinds throughout frames, serving to you facilitate funds extra securely.

Take a look at the Google I/O keynote for Google Pay and Google Pockets to be taught extra.

What’s forward

We’re decided to develop the variety of verified types of fee throughout the Google ecosystem, and proceed to push for easy, useful, and safe on-line funds, providing you a strategy to empower different companies, and speed up that change for shoppers.

Later this quarter, you’ll be capable of configure the brand new button view in your Android purposes, to indicate your customers further details about the final card they used to finish a fee with Google Pay. We’re additionally engaged on bringing the identical customization capabilities introduced for Android to your web sites later this yr.

Get began with Google Pay

Check out the documentation to start out integrating Google Pay in the present day.

Study extra concerning the integration by having a look at our pattern supply utility in GitHub.

When you’re prepared, head over to the Google Pay & Pockets console and submit your integration for manufacturing entry.