Google Pay is now available at 9 new banks

Google's mobile payment system continues to expand. Until now, very few banks were compatible with the Google system, with Bankia or BBVA as some of the most prominent. However, after its arrival in Spain two years ago, now Google Pay is expanding its list of compatible banks with 9 new entities

If you are a customer of one of the new banks available, you will surely have received the notification.If not, you can check the list of compatible banks on the official website. Among the novelties that appear on this list we have entities such as Cajasur, Unicaja, Ibercaja, Caja Rural or Liberbank, among others On this same page you can check which cards of each bank are compatible with the service, since not all of them are always included. In entities that have been around for a longer time, the list of cards is broader. However, in new entities it is very common for them to start with a specific type of card and then expand.

What can we do with Google Pay?

Google Pay is an application that we have available on Android phones. If we have a compatible card, we can use our mobile to pay with it without having to carry the card with us or without taking it out of our wallet Unfortunately, the world of mobile payments is very divided and we do not have a universal system compatible with all cards.Some banks have even decided to implement mobile payments in their own applications, giving up solutions like Google Pay or Apple Pay.

With Google Pay we can pay in businesses that accept this payment system. But also in hundreds of apps and websites without having to enter the card details over and over again. Among the applications and websites that accept Google Pay we have PcComponentes, Airbnb, Deliveroo, Groupon or Uber, among others.

And, of course, we can also use Google Pay as a payment method on all Google websites and services For example, we can use it in the Play Store, with the Google Assistant, in Google Chrome and in YouTube Red. Our payment data will be stored in our Google account, so payment with Google Pay will be very fast.

With Google Pay we can not only have payment cards at hand. The application also allows us to store boarding passes, business loy alty cards, show tickets and much more Among Google's partners for this service we have, for example , to Edenred and Sodexo with their Ticket Restaurant cards.

Although it has been in Spain for two years, Google Pay needs to continue growing and achieving new alliances with banks and savings banks. At the moment there are no banks as important as Banco Santander or La Caixa, but we hope that the service will continue to expand its compatibility.