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Google Wallet API For Digital Goods Will Be Retired On March 2, 2015

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

An anonymous reader points out that Google plans to shut down Google Wallet API for third-party digital purchases. "Google has quietly revealed it plans to retire the Google Wallet API for digital goods on March 2, 2015. The company plans to continue supporting the sale of apps on Google Play as well as in-app payments, but users will not be able to purchase any virtual items offered on the Web through Google Wallet. We say "quietly" because there is no official announcement from Google. Furthermore, Google says it has no plans to proactively communicate the change to Google Wallet users; buyers will simply get 404 errors when trying to check out after support is pulled."

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  1. Google's Paypal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google had some competing thing of paypal, for credit cards I used quite often and they retired that too years ago. It was something I used quite frequently.

    They retired that too. Thing was my business depended on it and it took a while to find a nonpaypal solution.

    All this type of stuff does is remind me to not rely on google for merchant options. Business want stability.