Payment online or over the phone is becoming very popular these days. To help make your corner of the world a little smaller and more convenient, Google and PayPal are strengthening their links so you can easily use PayPal on all Google services if you’ve already used it at least once on any of them.
This is not the first collaboration between these two giants, as PayPal became a payment option in Google Play in 2014 and in Google Pay last year. Something that already covers almost the entire range of places where you can use your Google Account for payment, but has one drawback, requires users to jump between Google Pay and PayPal when completing a transaction.
From now on, once you’ve added PayPal as an option in Google Play, you can also use PayPal as a payment option on YouTube, Gmail and Google Pay, you won’t have to log in to PayPal over and over again for each of those transactions. In other words, once you have authorized PayPal once on Google Play or Google Pay, it will work across the entire Google ecosystem.
It may seem like a small change, but it has benefits for both companies, as it means that users will be less inclined to cancel orders or change their mind if the payment process is almost instantaneous, and cements Paypal’s position as the preferred payment option on multiple platforms. Users will also be less likely to incorrectly enter their credentials or become victims of phishing.
For now, this novelty will only be available in the US, and it is possible that it will eventually be extended to the rest of the markets.