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Send money to your friends with Gmail and Google Wallet [video]

Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Google I/O is in full swing and there’s a ton of updates to products like Google Music and Google Hangouts. One thing that didn’t get mentioned during the Google I/O keynote is that Gmail users can now send payments to friends using Google Wallet.

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With Google Wallet integrated into Gmail, all users have to do is click on the $ icon to attach a specific amount of money to an email. Payments will be handled with whatever credit or debit card you have linked to your Google Wallet. This service will even work if the recipient doesn’t have a Gmail account. However, the recipient must have a Google Wallet account to receive funds.

One caveat of this service is that credit card fees will be applied to expect 2.9% to be taken out of the total. There’s also a transaction limit of $10,000 USD and $50,000 USD limit per 5 day period.

Sending money with Gmail and Google Wallet is limited to the desktop. Mobile users will have to use the Google Wallet website to send money. The roll out will take place slowly over the next coming months to Gmail users over 18 years of age.

[Source: Google Commerce Blog]

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