Last month, we announced an extension of our
existing partnership with Google to enable consumers in the US to use PayPal as a payment method in the Android Pay wallet where Android Pay is accepted - in apps and in stores. Today, we’re announcing another facet to our partnership. Android Pay users that have linked their PayPal accounts will be able to enjoy a simplified payment experience online at millions of merchants that accept PayPal. The new experience, which featured at
Google I/O today, allows Android Pay users on Chrome mobile web to pay at millions of online merchants that accept PayPal using their PayPal account and their fingerprint -- without needing to enter in their username or password.
This partnership will help speed checkout from Android phones by using Android Pay to seamlessly authenticate users where PayPal is accepted. Similar to PayPal’s deployment of
One Touch, merchants on the latest versions of PayPal Checkout will not need to do any integration to take advantage of these new capabilities.
Pali Bhat, VP of Payments Products at Google, addressed the importance of a seamless mobile checkout experience, sharing: “Mobile checkout remains one of the biggest sources of friction in the commerce experience, and we're excited to collaborate with PayPal on enabling streamlined checkout experiences for all Android Pay and PayPal users.”
As more and more shopping moves to mobile and as we deliver great mobile customer experiences through our unique two-sided platform of over 200 million users and 16 million merchants, PayPal’s mobile-first strategy is paying off. We’ve been very focused on partnering with leaders across the industry, like Google, to make great mobile buying experiences more available and remove friction from mobile shopping. This new seamless way to make a purchase with PayPal on Chrome mobile web with an Android device is just one way we’re working to simplify the checkout experience. PayPal’s One Touch is another way, and enables consumers to securely check out across platforms and devices without having to type in any payment information once logged in. More than 53 million people globally have opted into PayPal’s One Touch, and the experience is enabled across more than 5 million merchants around the world.
Over the past year, PayPal has been focused on forging
strategic partnerships with key players across the industry, from Visa and Mastercard to Google and Facebook. These partnerships expand PayPal’s reach, enable better experiences across more contexts and offer our customers more choice and optionality in how they manage and move their money.
We will continue to forge new collaborations to expand our services and reach, explore new contexts, increase conversion for our merchants, create better mobile experiences and give our consumers the flexibility, security and speed that digital payments can offer.
The PayPal integration with Android Pay is supported on versions of Android OS 4.4 and higher, including KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow and Nougat. To get started, sign up for
PayPal and download the
Android Pay app. This new experience and also the ability to tap and pay in stores with Android Pay and PayPal will start rolling out to US consumers soon.