Google Pockets was launched by the corporate in India on Wednesday. The app is designed to retailer boarding passes, loyalty and reward playing cards, occasion passes, automotive keys, and transit tickets. The app may digitise sure bodily paperwork and retailer them for straightforward entry. Whereas the corporate beforehand unified its cost and pockets apps in different markets, it has confirmed that the Google Pockets app will exist alongside the Google Pay app in India, which can proceed to deal with funds through the NPCI’s UPI community and supported financial institution playing cards.
At a launch occasion on Wednesday, the corporate introduced that the Google Pockets app can be obtainable to obtain on Android smartphones through the Google Play retailer in India. The app was noticed on the Play Retailer final month, together with screenshots that hinted at help for numerous options in India, akin to storing and displaying flight tickets, loyalty playing cards, occasion tickets, and transit playing cards.
Google says that it has partnered with over 20 firms in India, together with PVR, Inox, Air India, Indigo, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, Easemytrip, Ixigo, and Pine Labs. The corporate may even add help for extra firms over the approaching months.
In accordance with the corporate, customers will be capable to add film and occasion tickets from PVR and Inox to Google Pockets. In the meantime, cell boarding passes can be added to Google Pockets for straightforward entry — the app at the moment helps Air India and Air India Specific flights, through corporations like MakeMyTrip, Easemytrip, and Ixigo. Customers may even be capable to entry transit playing cards for providers akin to Kochi Metro, Hyderabad Metro, VRL Travels, and Abhibus through the app.
The Google Pockets app may even permit Indian customers to scan bodily paperwork, akin to baggage tags, parking receipts, and printed airline boarding passes, utilizing a QR code or barcode. Company badges can be added to Google Pockets, as the corporate has partnered with integrators like Wavelynx and Alert Enterprise.
If customers have good personalisation settings enabled in Gmail, the Google Pockets app will automaticaly fetch and show IPL, film, and prepare tickets utilizing the occasion affirmation mailed to the consumer, in keeping with the corporate. The Google Pockets app may even let customers entry digital variations of their loyalty playing cards for Flipkart, Dominos, and Buyers Cease.
It is price noting that in contrast to world markets, the place the corporate has unified its funds apps, the Google Pockets and Google Pay apps will proceed to work independently of one another in India. Whereas the Google Pockets app will supply entry to all of the options talked about above, entry to UPI funds and contactless funds (tap-to-pay) utilizing supported financial institution playing cards can be obtainable through Google Pay in India.
