Google Pay now supports peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing

Google Pay is looking to increase the convenience with support for peer-to-peer payments and mobile ticketing. Google Pay will allow users to pay to or request money from a friend via peer-to-peer. This was already feasible via the separate Google Pay Send app, but it is now rolled into the main Google Pay feature set. This means that we will likely see Google Pay Send support wind down in the future. 

Gerardo Capiel, Director of Product Management at Google Pay, noted that this makes it easier to split the bill with your friends if you bought something with Google Pay, you can tap on the purchase and then request payment from up to five people.

Since Google is basically combining two apps,  it sounds like Google Pay Send isn’t long for this world as Capiel put it, “We want to basically bring everything into Google Pay".

The Google Pay app is also gaining the ability to save mobile tickets and boarding passes, to be found in a new Passes tab that will also include loyalty cards and gift cards. So far, Ticketmaster and Southwest have been announced for support at launch, with services like Eventbrite, Vueling and Singapore Airlines to follow.

While some of Google Pay’s functionality like the new Passes Tab is limited to Android, Capiel said the goal is to support users on any platform. So you can also access Google Pay on the web and on an iOS app. Now Google says it’s making it easier to manage all your payment information across platforms, allowing users. For example, to update their payment info on the web and see it reflected in their app.

Looking ahead, Capiel said his team plans to add support for more ticketing partners, and also to launch the Google Pay app in more countries particularly the ones where the service is already being used for online payments.