{"id":630166,"date":"2026-08-10T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/630166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:06:12","slug":"google-play-adds-venmo-as-a-payment-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/630166\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said that users can use Venmo\u2019s wallet or other linked payment methods, such as bank accounts and cards, to pay for subscriptions or tip creators within different content-based apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Users can go to payment methods within their account\u2019s settings to link a Venmo account. Google Play already offers other digital payment methods including PayPal and Cash App along with cards from American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and JCB in the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside the U.S., the company has also experimented with allowing users to pay for digital purchases using <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/08\/google-to-allow-users-to-pay-for-android-apps-using-cash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cash at a nearby store.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People are spending more money on apps and games across the world. In 2025, user spend across iOS and Play Store was over $167 billion for in-app purchases, up 10.6% year-on-year, according to a report from analytics firm Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,823,19359,19,17,279,82],"class_list":["post-630166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-eire","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117071366142209118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}