It will come within 2 years—NFC payment via RuPay.
GPay work very slowly; this will give an idea of how much time it's going to take -
GPay also took Almost 2 years for Visa after the announcement.
Google Pay announced the rollout of NFC-based tokenized card payments in India on September 19, 2019 -
it supported Visa cards issued by HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Standard Chartered, and Axis Bank,
with plans to extend support to Mastercard and RuPay cards in the following months. 🤣 🤣
Google announced support for tokenised cards in the Google Pay app on September 19, at the Google for India event…
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Google Pay begins testing NFC-based payments feature via credit and debit cards on September 1, 2020 -
Android Police first spotted the development on August 28. Right now, only some Axis Bank and SBI cards on Visa are supported. While the feature has reportedly not rolled out to all users -
Google Pay is adding NFC payment support to its app in India, nearly three years after launching. Android Police first…
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Google Pay has started testing a new feature which allows contactless payments via credit and debit cards using near-field communication (NFC) technology.
entrackr.com
Note - I remember that in 2021, Google Pay actually started rolling out the NFC feature for everyone with Visa Card, but with limited banks. Before that, it was only available to a few selected users.
Google Pay and Mastercard announced their collaboration to enable tokenized card payments in India on December 21, 2021 -
Through tokenisation, Mastercard cardholders will be able to make payments through a secure digital token without having to share their credit or debit card details.
www.businesstoday.in
Note - Even with Mastercard, it was initially launched with only a few limited banks. I mean, even now there are only a few banks, but earlier it was even fewer.