Google Pay

Learn how to accept payments using Google Pay.

Google Pay allows customers to make payments in your app or website using any credit or debit card saved to their Google Account, including those from Google Play, YouTube, Chrome, or an Android device. Use the Google Pay API to request any credit or debit card stored in your customer’s Google account.

Google Pay is fully compatible with Stripe’s products and features (for example, recurring payments), allowing you to use it in place of a traditional payment form whenever possible. Use it to accept payments for physical goods, donations, subscriptions, and so on.

Customer locations
Worldwide except India
Presentment currency
See supported presentment currencies
Payment confirmation
Customer-initiated
Payment method family
Wallet
Recurring payments
Yes
Payout timing
Standard payout timing applies
Connect support
Yes
Dispute support
Yes
Manual capture support
Yes
Refunds / Partial refunds
Yes / yes

Using Stripe and Google Pay versus the Google Play billing system

For sales of physical goods and services, your app can accept Google Pay or any other Stripe-supported payment method. Those payments are processed through Stripe, and you only need to pay Stripe’s processing fees. However, in-app purchases of digital products and content must use the Google Play billing system. Those payments are processed by Google and are subject to their transaction fees.

For more information about which purchases must use the Google Play billing system, see Google Play’s developer terms.

Stripe’s React Native SDK is the fastest and easiest way to start accepting Google Pay in your React Native apps. The PlatformPayButton component wraps Google’s required UI, and you can use the confirmPlatformPayPayment and createPlatformPayPaymentMethod methods to seamlessly collect or create payments in your app with minimal setup.

Set up Stripe
Server-side
Client-side

Server-side

This integration requires endpoints on your server that talk to the Stripe API. Use our official libraries for access to the Stripe API from your server:

Client-side

The React Native SDK is open source and fully documented. Internally, it uses the native iOS and Android SDKs. To install Stripe’s React Native SDK, run one of the following commands in your project’s directory (depending on which package manager you use):

Command Line
yarn add @stripe/stripe-react-native

Next, install some other necessary dependencies:

For iOS, navigate to the ios directory and run pod install to ensure that you also install the required native dependencies.
For Android, there are no more dependencies to install.

Stripe initialization

To initialize Stripe in your React Native app, either wrap your payment screen with the StripeProvider component, or use the initStripe initialization method. Only the API publishable key in publishableKey is required. The following example shows how to initialize Stripe using the StripeProvider component.

import { StripeProvider } from '@stripe/stripe-react-native';

function App() {
  const [publishableKey, setPublishableKey] = useState('');

  const fetchPublishableKey = async () => {
    const key = await fetchKey(); // fetch key from your server here
    setPublishableKey(key);
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    fetchPublishableKey();
  }, []);

  return (
    <StripeProvider
      publishableKey={publishableKey}
      merchantIdentifier="merchant.identifier" // required for Apple Pay
      urlScheme="your-url-scheme" // required for 3D Secure and bank redirects
    >
      // Your app code here
    </StripeProvider>
  );
}

Note

Use your API keys for test mode while you test and develop, and your live mode keys when you publish your app.

Enable Google Pay

To use Google Pay, first enable the Google Pay API by adding the following to the <application> tag of your AndroidManifest.xml:

AndroidManifest.xml
<application>
  ...
  <meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.wallet.api.enabled"
    android:value="true" />
</application>

For more details, see Google Pay’s Set up Google Pay API for Android.

Create a PaymentIntent
Server-side

First, create a PaymentIntent on your server and specify the amount to collect and the currency. If you already have an integration using the Payment Intents API, add card to the list of payment method types for your PaymentIntent (this is also the default payment method if none are provided):

A PaymentIntent includes a client secret. You can use the client secret in your React Native app to securely complete the payment process instead of passing back the entire PaymentIntent object. In your app, request a PaymentIntent from your server and store its client secret.

Initialize Google Pay
Client-side

First, check whether or not the device supports Google Pay by calling isPlatformPaySupported.

import { usePlatformPay } from '@stripe/stripe-react-native';

function PaymentScreen() {
  const { isPlatformPaySupported } = usePlatformPay();

  React.useEffect(() => {
    (async function () {
      if (!(await isPlatformPaySupported({ googlePay: {testEnv: true} }))) {
        Alert.alert('Google Pay is not supported.');
        return;
      }
    })();
  }, []);

  ...

  return (
    <View >
      ...
    </View>
  );
}

Present the Google Pay sheet
Client-side

After you know Google Pay is available and your app has obtained a PaymentIntent or SetupIntent client secret, call confirmPlatformPayPayment. When confirming a SetupIntent, use confirmPlatformPaySetupIntent instead.

import {PlatformPayButton, usePlatformPay} from '@stripe/stripe-react-native';

function PaymentScreen() {
  const {
    isPlatformPaySupported,
    confirmPlatformPayPayment,
  } = usePlatformPay();

  React.useEffect(() => {
    ... // see above
  }, []);

  const fetchPaymentIntentClientSecret = async () => {
    // Fetch payment intent created on the server, see above
    const response = await fetch(`${API_URL}/create-payment-intent`, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        currency: 'usd',
      }),
    });
    const { clientSecret } = await response.json();

    return clientSecret;
  };

  const pay = async () => {
    const clientSecret = await fetchPaymentIntentClientSecret();

    const { error } = await confirmPlatformPayPayment(
      clientSecret,
      {
        googlePay: {
          testEnv: true,
          merchantName: 'My merchant name',
          merchantCountryCode: 'US',
          currencyCode: 'USD',
          billingAddressConfig: {
            format: PlatformPay.BillingAddressFormat.Full,
            isPhoneNumberRequired: true,
            isRequired: true,
          },
        },
      }
    );

    if (error) {
      Alert.alert(error.code, error.message);
      // Update UI to prompt user to retry payment (and possibly another payment method)
      return;
    }
    Alert.alert('Success', 'The payment was confirmed successfully.');
  };

  return (
    <View >
      <PlatformPayButton
        type={PlatformPay.ButtonType.Pay}
        onPress={pay}
        style={{
          width: '100%',
          height: 50,
        }}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

OptionalCreate a PaymentMethod
Client-side

Going live with Google Pay

Follow Google’s instructions to request production access for your app. Choose the integration type Gateway when prompted, and provide screenshots of your app for review.

After your app has been approved, test your integration in production by using testEnv: false, and launching Google Pay from a signed, release build of your app. Remember to use your live mode API keys. You can use a PaymentIntent with capture_method = manual to process a transaction without capturing the payment.