Google Pay users who live in the United States You can now use the new functionality of the payments tool, which provides the option to send money abroad. At the moment, transfers can only be made to two countries, but this will be greatly expanded soon. The USA is the first country to have access to the feature, which should soon be extended to other places in the world.

According to the publication in official google page, the integration of Google Pay with Western Union and Wise has made it possible to release these international money transfers, but for now, with limited destinations. Only users living in Singapore or India will be able to receive money sent from the United States, but this restriction will only apply when the service launches.

This restricted scenario, however, has a deadline set to change. “By the end of the year, we expect Google Pay users in the U.S. to be able to send money to people in more than 200 countries and territories through Western Union and to more than 80 countries through Wise,” the company said. Google.

Sending money abroad is done in just a few steps

Although the feature is not yet available to users who do not live in the United States, it is always a good idea to learn how to send money abroad using Google Pay, in case you need it. use the resource when it is released here. And, according to the instructions posted by the company, the method is quite simple.

The first step is to select, from your contact list, the user who lives abroad and who will receive the money via Google Pay. Once this is done, you need to click on “pay” and then select the partner for the transfer (currently Wise and Western Union, which They also work here, and can be accompanied by traditional credit card brands, such as Visa, Mastercard and Cielo). The following steps are intuitive and, according to Google, “safe and reliable”.

Data from a recent Mastercard research showed that this is a growing segment and that it should continue to grow globally. According to the report, every year people send around US$700 billion to friends and relatives living in different countries, and 73% of them use this method regularly. This is yet another reason to believe that Google Pay's ability to send money abroad, currently restricted to transactions between the United States, India and Singapore, should soon expand.