Page Summary
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Google Wallet has expanded its availability to numerous countries and regions, including Bermuda, Cambodia, El Salvador, and others, and now supports Wear OS and Fitbit devices in more locations.
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New features include support for VDV eTicket Services Motics spec in Germany, surfacing train tickets from Gmail in Wallet, and enabling physical to digital card conversion for the closed loop transit API.
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Developers can leverage functionalities such as triggering push notifications for passes, using AppLinkData for easier access to websites or apps, and accessing basic analytics for their passes.
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Google Wallet introduced Generic Private Passes API for sensitive data, launched in Japan, and expanded to Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Kuwait.
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Demo mode allows for faster pass development with sandbox environment and access control, while PassContraints offer control over screenshot and NFC capabilities of passes.
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September 15, 2026
Updated documentation and specifications for offline digital ID acceptance and Mobile Driver's License (mDL) verification using Multipaz protocols, including updated riskScore recommendations and proof user guides. Learn more.
Refreshed 'Add to Google Wallet' badge assets with enhanced localization and support for Right-to-Left (RTL) layout rendering. Learn more.
New debug error codes reference guide launched to help partners troubleshoot card provisioning, NFC handshakes, and Smart Tap reader errors. Learn more.
Updated Card Provisioning API specifications to document optional digitizationOptions and digitizeCard request parameters. Learn more.
Campus ID access passes support the Aliro standard for secure digital credentials.
Unitech Electronics and Shanghai Sunmi Technology terminals are certified for Google Wallet Smart Tap 2.1 integrations. Learn more.
Published comprehensive API reference and tool documentation for the Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server, enabling AI agents to manage passes, query metrics, and configure merchant integrations. Learn more.
Google Wallet introduces Android Expressive Passes, offering rich, brand-forward layouts, modernized hero images, and refined details views across Event Tickets, Boarding Passes, Loyalty Cards, and Generic Passes. Learn more.
June 30, 2026
Updated Google Wallet brand guidelines with display specifications for multi-card presentation and stacked digital passes. Learn more.
Published dedicated developer Terms of Service for digital credential issuers and verifiers integrating with Google Wallet Identity.
Saved coupons are automatically upgraded to linked loyalty accounts when users connect their merchant accounts in Google Wallet.
Added the India Aadhaar IACA certificate to the list of supported digital identity issuers in Google Wallet.
Introduced preview documentation and getting started guides for the official Google Pay & Wallet Developer Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agent integrations. Learn more.
Google Wallet expanded automated boarding pass check-in configurations to 10 additional airline carriers.
March 31, 2026
Google Wallet transit capabilities expanded with native provisioning for Navigo transit passes and Calypso HCE applet integration.
The Card Metadata API includes support for custom secondary brand color attributes in card metadata responses to enhance pass styling.
Overhauled developer documentation for Google Wallet Identity and launched the onboarding guide for Verifier Registrars accepting digital credentials. Learn more.
October 14, 2025
Nearby Passes Geofence Notifications are now available for all regular pass types. Developers can set up to 10 merchant locations per class and per object. Users entering a merchant location will receive a push notification on their lock screen, providing easier access to Wallet objects. Learn more.
Developers can now take advantage of Wallet's email ingestion integration which enables your loyalty, boarding pass, and event ticket passes to be automatically added to users Wallet's from their Gmail provided they have Gmail's Smart features control on.
Multiple access cards (Campus ID, Corporate Badge, Hotel Key, Multi Family) with the same Application ID can now be provisioned to a single Google Wallet. When multiple cards share an AID, the card most recently selected in Google Wallet takes precedence for presentation to a reader. Users can easily select which card to present. Learn more.
Merchants integrated with Smart Tap can now request to pilot our post-tap Loyalty Program Enrollment (aka Bounceback) experience. Users that tap to pay at a store are prompted to sign up for the merchant loyalty program.
Users can now add their own nicknames to passes to make them easier to organize in the Google Wallet app and website.
April 15, 2025
On March 11th, Google Wallet launched in Jordan 🇯🇴 and Pakistan 🇵🇰! Users can now add cards, passes, and pay with the GPay checkout button across all Android, Wear and Fitbit devices.
Loyalty and Gift Card passes can be added from the wallet.google.com homepage just like the Wallet App! Integrating with Loyalty Program Enrolment can now reach users on the web.
Users can now view the real-time status of their train (e.g. On time, Delayed) if they save their train tickets to Google Wallet in India (Indian Railways) and Canada (Via Rail)!
In select countries Wallet now allows parents and guardians to enable their children to add event tickets, generic passes, and more to Google Wallet. Read more here.
Join Google Wallet I/O on May 21-22, 2025 to hear about all of the changes coming to Google Wallet and Google Pay.
Users with manually added loyalty passes to Wallet are now able to upgrade their passes to Wallet API integrated passes for merchants who integrate with Loyalty Program Enrolment.
December 19, 2024
The Google Wallet app is live, or will soon* be live, in the following countries:
Egypt 🇪🇬, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Bermuda 🇧🇲, Cambodia 🇰🇭, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Guernsey 🇬🇬, Kosovo 🇽🇰, Morocco 🇲🇦, Nicaragua 🇳🇮, Panama 🇵🇦, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Tajikistan 🇹🇯, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, Monaco 🇲🇨, Peru 🇵🇪
Field Updates with notifications have been launched across different pass types allowing developers to update their passes and easily notify users for certain fields. The notification will appear on the user's lock screen and inform them that there is an update on their pass.
Help your users find your website, app, or other data more quickly by using the AppLinkData with custom display text. Define the AppLinkData on your passes and the button will appear at the bottom of the front of pass view. Define it for a class, or make it personalized at the object level.
Finding classes in the Google Pay and Wallet Console is now easier. You can now sort your recently created classes by date created.
Value Added Opportunities have launched and you can now update objects and classes to include value added opportunity modules. The modules will be displayed on the details page of the users pass and can link to issuer content. For gift cards, loyalty cards, and offers we also support an automatic integration with Shopping Merchant Center.
We are providing users with more control over how they receive push notifications. We've introduced a control on the back of pass view that allows users to turn off notifications for passes they no longer want to receive.
September 27, 2024
We have launched Google Wallet Android App in Bermuda 🇧🇲, Cambodia 🇰🇭, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Guernsey 🇬🇬, Kosovo 🇽🇰, Morocco 🇲🇦, Nicaragua 🇳🇮, Panama 🇵🇦, Paraguay 🇵🇾, and Tajikistan 🇹🇯!
Google Wallet now supports VDV (((eTicket Services Motics spec for secure mobile ticketing in Germany. Transit agencies and developers are welcome to leverage Google Wallet specifications here to cryptographically secure tickets from copying, falsification or fraud.
wallet.google.com launched in the following countries! This is just phase 1 of our journey of making it available to every GPay and Wallet user, everywhere!
Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Brazil 🇧🇷, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, Croatia 🇭🇷, Cyprus 🇨🇾, Czechia 🇨🇿, Denmark 🇩🇰, Estonia 🇪🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Greece 🇬🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, Iceland 🇮🇸, Ireland 🇮🇪, Israel 🇮🇱, Italy 🇮🇹, Latvia 🇱🇻, Liechtenstein 🇱🇮, Lithuania 🇱🇹, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Malaysia 🇲🇾, Malta 🇲🇹, Monaco 🇲🇨, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Norway 🇳🇴, Poland 🇵🇱, Portugal 🇵🇹, Romania 🇷🇴, San Marino 🇸🇲, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Spain 🇪🇸, Sweden 🇸🇪, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Thailand 🇹🇭, UK 🇬🇧, Ukraine 🇺🇦, United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪, and Vietnam 🇻🇳.
The closed loop transit API now supports physical to digital card conversion.
Train tickets (in addition to loyalty cards, movie tickets and boarding passes) from Gmail are now surfaced in Google Wallet when a user buys a ticket and gets a confirmation email in their Gmail.
We launched WearOS support for grouped passes, pass archiving, and unscannable passes, improving the passes experience for Wear users!
June 04, 2024
Check out all of the new features that were announced at Google I/O 2024 in the Everything you need to know about Google Pay and Wallet video.
Corporate Badges have launched in multiple countries! To see where you can save yours to Google Wallet, refer to the "Save your corporate badge to Google Wallet" support article. Developers working with supported Access protocols and Account Hubs (like NXP) can integrate this functionality, enabling companies to digitize employee badges. Please see the Corporate Badge developer documentation for more information.
Google Wallet now launched in Guernsey 🇬🇬, Morocco 🇲🇦 and Bermuda 🇧🇲 !
We have expanded Google Wallet on Fitbit to all Fitbit devices that support NFC in all markets except JP 🇯🇵, TW 🇹🇼, SA 🇿🇦.
Users in India can now get Google Wallet and use it for a wide range of everyday use cases including air travel, events, transit, loyalty and more!
Ever want to engage your users through passes push notifications? Developers can now Trigger Push Notifications to their pass users via the add message API!
AppLinkData links are now included on the front of the pass view for easier access to your website or app (or be prompted to install your app if not already installed).
The Generic Private Pass API now supports Add and Delete callback events to be informed when a user successfully saves or deletes a pass.
The Generic Private Pass API now supports update notifications which enable users to be notified when an update is available for their pass. The message will link to your app or website so the user can download a new version of the pass.
You can now use the Google Pay and Wallet Console to access basic analytics about your passes at the class level. Navigate to the Wallet API > Class management tab and click on the analytics button to access the new dashboard. Note: you will only be able to see views on passes if there were more than 50 unique users on a given day due to privacy restrictions.
The Generic Private Pass API no longer requires you to request allowlisting of each image you want to include on passes.
Join the Auto Linked Passes beta feature by filling out your interest on this form. The Auto Linked Passes feature lets you attach a grouped pass to one a user has already saved.
On June 10, 2024, Google Wallet will require Android 9 or higher on your phone and Wear OS 2.x or higher on your smartwatch. More information on how to update can be found in the Help Center.
March 07, 2024
Google Wallet launched in Dominican Republic (🇩🇴), Monaco (🇲🇨), and Peru (🇵🇪) on November 7!
Movie tickets and boarding passes from Gmail are now surfaced in the Google Wallet when a user buys a ticket and gets a confirmation email in their Gmail. This integration is live for some global movie chains and airlines and we are working to expand this.
We have made it easier to manage the passes that appear in Google Wallet. Most passes can now be manually archived by users, which will move the pass down into the newly named 'Archived Passes' section (formerly known as 'Expired Passes'). Users can also unarchive previously expired or archived passes for easier reference on their home feed. Users can also archive passes from their Wear OS devices for easier management.
[Beta Feature] Loyalty cards saved to Wallet can now be used to highlight membership benefits while users browse your products on Google Search and Shopping. This feature is limited to the US. Please contact support if you are interested in piloting this combined Google Shopping x Google Wallet feature.
A longstanding issue that prevented the titleLabel from appearing on the back of the pass was addressed. The titleLabel field that appears on the front of the pass (aka card view) is now visible on the back of the pass.
Flight Passes now use DATETIME by default and show both the date and time on the front of the pass.
We will soon be automatically moving AppLinkData definitions to a more prominent location on the front of the pass (aka card view) so that users can more easily access your website or app (or be prompted to install your app if not already installed). The change requires no update on your end.
October 06, 2023
Passes are now enabled for Colombia (CO) 🇨🇴 , Faroe Islands (FO) 🇫🇴, Greenland (GL) 🇬🇱, Isle of man (IM) 🇮🇲, San Marino (SM) 🇸🇲 and Peru 🇵🇪!
Google Wallet now supports QUICPay and iD on Wear OS by Google. Users in Japan can now add supported credit and debit cards to Google Wallet and tap to pay with their Pixel Watch.
You can now use the new wide header logo to specify a rectangular header image to be displayed at the top of the pass in the front of pass screen. Read more here.
JavaScript web buttons have been translated and converted to 'Add to Google Wallet'.
July 17, 2023
Smart Tap is now enabled for Generic Private Passes.
July 10, 2023
We launched Google Wallet in Albania (🇦🇱), Argentina (🇦🇷), Bosnia and Herzegovina (🇧🇦), North Macedonia (🇲🇰), and Montenegro (🇲🇪) on June 6! With this launch we also support Wallet on WearOS and Fitbit devices!
The Google Wallet FAQ page now has many useful answers and suggestions to the most common questions the Wallet team receives. Check it out and see if it helps you as you develop for Google Wallet.
Account Restricted Passes have launched in beta which allow developers to associate some pass objects with Google accounts which limits who can save the pass. By setting the user's email address on the Pass via the API we validate that the account set on the pass object matches the Google Account of the Google Wallet user saving the pass. File a support request to gain access to the feature.
RCS Business Messaging (RBM) has launched for Boarding Passes which allow developers to bring branded, interactive mobile check-in experiences, right to the native Android messaging app. You can use Google Wallet with RBM to design a seamless check-in flow. Once the check-in is complete, users can add the boarding pass to their Wallet from the Google's Messages app.
Events tickets with Smart Tap NFC capabilities will now prompt the user to use the contactless capabilities of the pass through a new NFC Education feature. Users are prompted with instructions on how to use NFC-enabled passes.
The maximum number of TextModuleData fields and Message fields has been updated to support 20 for both Class and Object on the default pass template.
May 09, 2023
The Generic Private Passes (GPP) API supports passes with sensitive data fields and approved sensitive use cases. With the introduction of this new API Wallet can now support* commonly requested use cases such as:
- Health Insurance Cards
- National IDs
- Travel Documents
- Passes that display biometric data
* Use case support depends on use case approval per country.
Google Wallet is now available in Japan on Android and Wear devices! See the blog post here.
Demo mode enables pass developers to get started with the Wallet API in a self-serve manner immediately with support for the following features:
Lean Onboarding: Only 3 clicks to creation, requires minimal onboarding.
Sandbox Environment for demo mode partners.
Access Control: Only allow listed emails can save passes.
Risk Management: UI elements to clearly denote test passes.
Google Wallet recently launched in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Kuwait on Android and Fitbit and Wear devices! You can now use Google Wallet in over 60 countries and regions worldwide!
Google Wallet will stop working Android 5 (L) and Android 6 (M) by May 21st.
PassConstraints give developers more control over the screenshot and NFC capabilities of their passes. As a developer, you can control when a user is able to screenshot a pass and when it will convey specific NFC objects.