Now Google Wallet and formerly Google Pay focus on payments contactlesscontactless, those who use the mobile phone’s NFC to exchange payment information, Putting aside all those mobile phones without NFC and even to all countries where mobile payments are made with QR codes instead of NFC. Not for longer.

Google announced it in a blog post QR code payments will come to Google Wallet in the coming months, and first in Brazil, a country where many mobile phones in roaming don’t have NFC technology.

Payments made with QR codes on Google Wallet

To pay by mobile phone, our mobile phone and the place where we pay must somehow communicate and be the mode that Google always chooses for its payment system. was NFC. We have already made it ready by putting the mobile phone next to the data phone at the right time.

However, NFC is partly QR codes for your payments instead of using NFC. In these cases, Google Wallet could not be used to make payments.

Google is finally giving up and will offer support for payments by scanning a QR code. Instead of putting our mobile in front of the data phone, we need to open Google Wallet and scan the dynamic QR code displayed on the data phone and includes all payment details. Then, we see what we will pay as a summary on the screen, and after our identity is verified with the biometrics of the mobile phone, a payment order is given from the card.

period Something more manual than NFC payments, but where this type of payment is standardized, all alternatives work similarly. Payments made with a QR code and without NFC will arrive on Google Wallet “in the coming months” and first in Brazil.

More info | Google

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