It was just a few extra taps and took several days to transfer. This worked fine, and if it was deposited directly to a bank account, there weren't any fees. The pool for sending and receiving this money is your Google Pay balance, and previously, the main way to spend this balance was to transfer it out of Google Pay and into a bank account (though it's also a payment method on the Play Store and Google hardware store). According to a new report from 9to5Google (Google does not seem to have a blog post about this yet), starting this week, US Android users can request a 'Google Pay Balance Card' that will allow them to spend their Google Pay balance directly on purchases.īesides the NFC tap-and-pay functionality, Google Pay also has a P2P payment that lets you exchange money with other people.

Now, the company is finally starting to add features on top of this stripped-down service, starting with the return of a debit card. Earlier this year, Google blew up the existing Google Pay and started over with a new codebase that had more restrictions and fewer features.

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