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Gmail boarding passes and movie tickets can now be stored in Google Wallet

03/19/202403/18/2024 Sam Lambert

Google Wallet - Gmail app on phone update

In the mobile app’s latest update, support was added to draw these documents from Gmail Recent Google Wallet updates have given the mobile app the ability to support drawing travel boarding passes and movie tickets right out of a Gmail email account. The new feature for the app was originally announced in developer release notes Once Google Wallet has been updated, users will be able to automatically use the confirmation emails they receive for their boarding passes and movie tickets to import those documents into the app. Both boarding passes…

Google Wallet is finally adding QR code scans for payments

06/30/202306/29/2023 John Montgallo

Users of phones without NFC technology will now be able to use the app to complete purchases. Google Wallet has announced that it will be letting users without near field communication (NFC) technology-enabled phones to use QR code scans to make payments instead. This will make it much easier for users without NFC to be able to make mobile payments. By using a QR code, users will be able to simply scan the barcode a merchant displays. All that is needed is their smartphone camera (and the Google Wallet app).…

American Eagle Outfitters announces Google Wallet launch

10/29/201110/29/2011 John Montgallo

American Eagle Outfitters has announced that they’ve launched Google wallet in five of their stores, American Eagle Outfitters, 77kids, and Aerie shops in the United States. Google Wallet is a mobile service that operates through an app available for Android smartphones that allows shoppers to use those devices in order to redeem discount coupons, earn loyalty points, or even pay for purchase, simply by tapping or waving the device at a reader at checkout counters. American Eagle, a company that focuses primarily on the 15 to 25 year old male…

Radio Shack poised to begin accepting mobile payments through Google Wallet

08/26/2011 Stephanie Beck

Radio Shack has announced that it will be one of the first retailers that will be taking advantage of the latest mobile payment technology being offered through Google Wallet. This announcement follows a press conference made by Google in June, when it divulged its new partnerships with credit card companies and banks that would bring near field communications (NFC) payments to phones running on their Android operating system. The start of the service was through the Nexus S phone, but NFC will be a part of all future Android phones,…