Google has partnered with Visa and MasterCard to enable mobile payments via Android Pay at online merchants that already accept the card networks’ respective Visa Checkout and Masterpass digital wallet platforms, in an effort to expand Android Pay to more merchants and shoppers.
Android Pay will be available through those merchants starting early next year, and the companies claim it will speed up checkout times, reduce the likelihood of cart abandonment and give customers the flexibility to authenticate their payments with their own preferred manner of identity verification, such as fingerprint recognition.
