Google Pay now allows you to carry boarding passes and event tickets

Google's mobile payment system grows and improves. It no longer only serves to pay in different establishments without carrying your wallet, bringing the terminal with NFC technology closer to the dataphone, now it does many other things with the content that you have already purchased. We are talking about boarding passes and tickets or tickets to events, which travel directly in the payment service to forget about looking for emails and QR codes when entering a plane or a concert.But not only that, there are also payments between friends Has the end of credit and debit cards come?

Payments between friends

Let's say you decide to pay for a dinner in order to deal more quickly with the payment issue, although you intend to divide the bill among your friends and yourself. Well, it is no longer necessary to use independent applications that make the calculation, and the application of your bank to request each part to each friend. All this can be done in Google Pay with up to five people For this, Google has implemented a new tab with which you can not only split payments to calculate each part, but also Request this money from other contacts.

The downside is that this feature is still in its infancy.For this reason it is limited to the United States of America No official date for its arrival in Europe. But at least we have the certainty that it will be around at some point in the future.

Tickets and boarding passes in the app

More interesting and practical is that Google Pay now collects, saves, and displays different types of receipts for admission to planes and concerts, for example. We are talking about boarding passes and tickets in a virtual version. Something that, as with credit cards, disappear when Google Pay comes into action. As already happens on iPhone with Passbook, it is already possible to save the virtual versions of these passes in the Google application for Android phones.

The downside, again, comes when it comes to understanding that the service is taking its first steps. This means that not all boarding pass and ticket purchase channels still work with Google Pay.For example, Vueling will be added soon to avoid having to carry boarding pass cardboard, while it is already possible to store tickets purchased in Ticketmaster

There is a special tab for this after the last update of Google Pay. This is where not only loy alty cards and offers are collected, but also any content purchased and ready to be used as ticket or boarding pass.

More control over the platform

From now on, in addition, Google Pay is synchronized across all devices where you have entered your Google account. This means having all the updates in the application, such as credit card changes, even if you have used the comfort of the computer to enter your new tax information.It does not matter if it is the web, the iPhone version or the Android application. Absolutely everything is synchronized and can be updated, modified and used on any device.

In addition, now from the application you can quickly configure which cards you want to apply the expenses to when making purchases from your mobile . No need to enter them again as long as they are saved and associated with your Google account.