{"id":124796,"date":"2025-05-23T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124796\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:41:11","slug":"google-play-now-lets-you-ask-other-people-to-buy-apps-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124796\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play now lets you ask other people to buy apps for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_ig\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Google Play Store app next to other Google Apps stock photo\"  alt=\"Google Play Store app next to other Google Apps stock photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Google-Play-Store-app-next-to-other-Google-Apps-stock-photo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is expanding its \u201cAsk someone to pay\u201d feature for the Play Store.<\/li>\n<li>Users in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia will now have access to the feature.<\/li>\n<li>This option allows you to ask someone outside of your Google family group to pay for a transaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google I\/O<\/a> has been chock-full of announcements, ranging from Android Auto to Wear OS and everything in between. While a majority of the reveals have been AI-related, there has been plenty of news that\u2019s not related to AI. One such announcement shares that a new payment method is coming to the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s marketplace offers a variety of ways to pay for an app or an in-app item, whether it\u2019s through PayPal, credit card, a code redemption, or some other method. Last year, it introduced a new way to pay that lets you hand over the bill to someone else. At the time of rollout, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-play-ask-someone-else-to-buy-3446170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">payment method<\/a> was only available in India. But now, it\u2019s expanding to more markets.<\/p>\n<p>The payment method I\u2019m talking about here is called \u201cAsk someone else to pay.\u201d This feature appears as a button during checkout. If you tap on the button, it will generate a payment link you can send to someone outside of your Google family group. The user is then warned that whoever\u2019s paying has to know their full email address, they can also see the item that\u2019s being purchased, and that the payer has 24 hours before the payment link expires.<\/p>\n<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T41OD37tI54&amp;list=PLOU2XLYxmsIL4mCDJICu2vLPNw-zdcGAt&amp;index=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Ask someone else to pay is now rolling out to four additional countries. These regions include the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Such a Play Store feature could come in handy if you want to give a friend a gift. However, it could also quickly become annoying, as it could easily be used to beg someone to pay for something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-play-store-new-payment-method-3560534\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority TL;DR Google is expanding its \u201cAsk someone to pay\u201d feature for the Play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[867,3597,54334,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-google-play","10":"tag-google-play-store","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556258596081904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}