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MIHAI IONESCU: Hi, everyone.
Welcome to another session of "Developers Live." We're going
to talk about payments, Wallet APIs, very
exciting session today.
We're going to start with some announcements.
There have been quite a few things happening
since we last talked.
Then we have a demo.
My colleague here, Peng, will demo some of the
latest APIs in action.
And, of course, we're going to end with a Q&A session and
answer your topics raised on the
forums and on the Moderator.
So let's start with some announcements.
A very exciting week, so what happened this week?
PENG YING: Yeah, so I can finally talk about one of the
products I've been working on for quite a bit.
Well, I mean, this is like the second
iteration of the product.
But it's something that I think is really useful to
developers and merchants.
So the product itself is called Google Wallet for
online commerce.
And the idea is that, right now, purchasing on the mobile
web is something that's very time-consuming and difficult.
I've seen statistics that state something like 97% of
all mobile web purchases are canceled.
What we set out to do is we set out to make this process
more frictionless.
And in order to do so, what we're doing is we're
leveraging the power of Google Wallet to enable these
transactions.
And what I mean by that is anybody who has made a
purchase on Google Play, who has made a purchase on Chrome
Web Store, or bought something with Google Wallet has their
credentials stored within the cloud.
And what Google Wallet for online commerce does is it
allows merchants to leverage these credentials.
So when you allow a customer to purchase Google Wallet,
what happens is we pass over a one-time use
card to your servers.
And you can process the transactions with your typical
transaction rails.
And then I'll be showing a demo of this in the near--
well, I'll be showing a demo of this
later on in the session.
So very exciting announcement.
I think it has tremendous benefit for mobile web
developers.
MIHAI IONESCU: Absolutely.
I'm looking forward to the demo.
What else?
Oh, an announcement about your questions on
the forums and Google+.
We're getting a lot of those.
And we want to consolidate them in just one place.
And the best place to do that, we think it's Stack Overflow.
We've already been consolidating a lot of Stack
Overflow questions from other Google APIs.
So look for an announcement early next week.
We're moving all our questions to Stack Overflow.
And the tag, of course, will be Google Wallet.
So we'll announce it on the forums and
on the Google+ page.
PENG YING: Yep.
So shall we talk about the benefits?
There's a few benefits--
MIHAI IONESCU: Of course.
PENG YING: --of using Stack Overflow.
So one of the ones that I've seen, well, one of the ones
that we've noticed is that when you're using Google
Groups, which is our typical one-to-many forum support
platform, is that when you have a question about, let's
say, Google Wallet for digital goods or checkout or something
else, these groups are kind of isolated communities where the
topics are all solely focused on this one topic.
And within Stack Overflow, instead of that, it's a huge
community where these questions are tagged with the
topics that they're on.
So what this enables us to do is instead of having these
small, segregated groups, you have one huge community with
everybody answering, everybody interacting.
So we hope that by switching over to Stack Overflow, we
provide both a better experience, and we help build
out the community for Google commerce-related products.
MIHAI IONESCU: Definitely much easier to search.
And right now, there's also some
cross-pollination among APIs.
Developers use different APIs.
Stack Overflow is a much better place to find
information about all available Wallet APIs.
Good.
What else?
What else is new for the next few weeks?
We have some new conferences that we're going to present
Wallet and talk about Wallet APIs at.
A very exciting one--
Google for Entrepreneurs in Kansas City.
So if you're from the Midwest area, make sure you make time
to attend that.
It's on November 13 at the Kauffman Conference Center in
Kansas City.
Cool.
So let's do the demo.
PENG YING: All right.
Let's do the demo.
If you could--
let's take a look at my laptop.
And then so right now, this is the Five Guys.
We announced Five Guys, one of our premier launch partners.
And the idea is that normally I would--
so think of this as the Five Guys mobile site.
And then what we're going to be doing here is just taking a
look at how the flow is different between using Google
Wallet for digital goods and how it can simplify the flow.
So let's say I want to order lunch, and there's a
Five Guys around me.
This is the one in San Diego, which has Google Wallet for
online commerce enabled.
So I just want to get a burger--
regular hamburger, delicious, delicious hamburgers, all the
Way, of course.
MIHAI IONESCU: All the way?
PENG YING: All the way.
And then here you can see it, the Buy with
Google Wallet button.
So if I want to continue my typical
checkout, I would do that.
And then I would have to either login or create an
account or checkout as guest.
And then I'd have to enter in some additional information
such as credit card names, info.
MIHAI IONESCU: So how much data is that?
PENG YING: It's a few extra fields.
But in this case, so if I'm using an Android device, I'm
already typically logged in, which is
something I can leverage.
And in this case, I'm also logged into their browser, so
it knows who I am.
I can simply click Buy with Google Wallets.
I can enable this transaction.
And then Use the Same Shipping Address, Use Google Wallet.
So this is pre-authorizing Five Guys to have access to my
Wallet credentials.
So next time, you'll see how the flow changes.
I'll do this twice.
I'm going to continue here.
And then boom.
So it has all my payment credentials and payment
information and contact information.
Now, if I place this order, I'll actually get a
cheeseburger in San Diego.
And I'm in Mountain View, so unfortunately, I'm won't
complete this one.
But we can go over to--
we made a sample as well, so we go to
wallet.java.appspot.com.
Actually, let's go to our documentation.
Because the sample is also iFramed in our documentation.
So go to developers.googl e.com/wallet-online.
And so this is our sample and our documentation as well.
And I just want to walk you through it.
So if I wanted to buy a camera on our sample, I would add it
to the cart.
And then here, I could either buy with Google Wallet or
Continue Checkout.
The button changed a little bit, which is why the spacing
is a little bit off.
But that one's going to be fixed in the very near future.
So I'm already pre-authorized on this site.
So instead of confirming my selections about my method of
payment, about my shipping address, I can simply click
Buy with Google Wallet.
And it automatically passes the
information over to the merchant.
And in this case, it's Sandbox, fake information, so
no real-world transaction's going to be processed.
I can place this order, and I'm done.
It might take a second, a quick second.
And there you go.
I have my receipt.
I have purchased my good.
I didn't have to add any of my billing or shipping
information in my mobile device, which is
super painful at times.
And I can continue on with my rest of the day.
Let's say if I wanted to buy another item, or in this case,
maybe I want to upgrade my camera, I can go
through the same flow.
And because I'm pre-authorized now, what you can also do is
tie the Continue Checkout button with the
Google Wallet call.
And so Continue Checkout can also request credentials from
Google Wallet.
Think of it as a OAuth2-style payment credential access, so
something that could be potentially super powerful.
I can continue through it.
And I'm done.
And because what's happening here is that Google Wallet is
passing over a one-time cards to the merchant, merchants and
developers don't really have to change their existing
payment rails.
So it's super, super simplistic integration.
And we can walk through-- well, I don't think we need to
walk through it today.
But you can take a look at the documentation yourself.
It's under Tutorial.
Right now, sign up, unfortunately, is closed.
We're only working with the partners.
But if you are interested in becoming one of our upcoming
or future partners, then you can sign up through--
there's a link on the FAQ page.
It's right at the bottom.
So contact us.
And then we are always looking to add additional partners.
Cool.
So if you want to find out more, visit this site,
developers.googl e.com/wallet-online.
Play with the APIs or play with the sample.
Take a look at the APIs.
And then if you're really interested, express your
interest by contacting us.
MIHAI IONESCU: What other merchants do we have that
there are live with this API right now?
PENG YING: So we have 1-800-Flowers is
live with this API.
And I forget the last one.
MIHAI IONESCU: Rockport.
PENG YING: Is it Rockport?
MIHAI IONESCU: Rockport, yeah.
PENG YING: OK, so Rockport is also live with this API.
And we hope we get a few, or many more.
MIHAI IONESCU: If you want to buy flowers or shoes or--
PENG YING: Yeah.
Flowers, shoes, or cheeseburgers.
MIHAI IONESCU: We've covered the entire spectrum.
But flowers would be really nice.
And you want to buy them on the spot.
And you have only your mobile device.
PENG YING: Exactly.
MIHAI IONESCU: You don't need to insert all the address
information, all the card information.
Just one click--
PENG YING: And you're done.
MIHAI IONESCU: --your loved one gets the flowers.
PENG YING: I can see this being really useful,
especially for mobile ordering.
I can see instead of going to whatever fast food place where
we're getting lunch and then waiting in line and then
placing your order and waiting for it to be cooked, that
people can just go on their phone and place their order
ahead of time and then go and pick it up.
I think that's something that's a huge time saver.
There's also a lot of other potentials in this.
I think mobile commerce is one field
that's definitely growing.
So with that, there's a lot of opportunity here, like maybe
hotels or something.
MIHAI IONESCU: More time to eat, and
more time to buy stuff.
PENG YING: Like hotels and travel will probably be
another big area.
MIHAI IONESCU: It's making lives easier and
commerce more efficient.
Thanks, Peng, for the demo.
We hope you liked it.
And make sure you go check out the demo line or the
documentation.
And if you're interested in trying it in the Sandbox and
learning more about the API, use the merchant sign-up form.
And we'll get in contact with you.
Great.
So next, let's look at some questions.
We've got quite a few questions submitted in the
forums and in the Moderator.
Charles started the first one.
So it's a subscription API-related question, that's
subscription for digital goods API.
And the question is, "Can I create a subscription with no
expiration date?"
So that is a very good question.
And currently, the API requires you to specify the
number of times the subscription payment recurs.
So you cannot create an open-ended subscription with
no expiration date.
But it is indeed a very valid case and
something that makes sense.
So we are working to add that additional functionality.
And we hope to have it soon.
So thank you for the question.
And it's something that's in the works.
You want to take the next one?
PENG YING: Sure.
So "When will the Save-to-Wallet Offers API be
generally available to online merchants?" We get questions
about when things are going to be released all the time, and
when will they be available to merchants, or when are we
going to do this.
Unfortunately, we can never comment on any of that.
I wish we could.
But in this case, all I can say is soon, in
the upcoming future.
MIHAI IONESCU: We do have some documentation, though, if
people want to learn more about it.
PENG YING: We do.
I think--
I forget.
I haven't taken a look at the API myself.
So I don't know too much about how available it is, either.
But there is documentation available.
MIHAI IONESCU: I'll take the next one.
Along the same lines, "Any word on support for Sprint
Galaxy Note 2?" So I think we support all
Galaxy devices on Sprint.
Sprint is one of our partners for Google Wallet.
And I would be surprised if Galaxy Node doesn't work.
I may be wrong.
But to make sure you have a device that works, there is a
list of available devices.
And it should be listed there.
And the list is in the Help Session.
So if you go to wallet.google.com, and at the
bottom of the page you click on Help, you will see the Help
Center, and then there's a link to eligible devices.
And most if not all of Sprint devices are listed there.
So you can check that.
Next one.
PENG YING: I guess this one's for me.
"T-Mobile--
what are the chances of an agreement coming through or at
least support for the Galaxy S3 for Google Wallet?" Again,
we're working with all of the carriers.
And I can't say any more details, but we're working
with the powers that be.
MIHAI IONESCU: So Galaxy now works on MetroPCS.
We just announced availability on MetroPCS.
And T-Mobile is buying MetroPCS.
So you never know.
PENG YING: I heard MetroPCS is growing a lot.
They've had huge subscriber growth.
MIHAI IONESCU: All right, I'll take the next one.
The question is, "When will support for international
buyers be added to the Google Wallet for online commerce
API?" So we just talked about it, the Google Wallet for
online commerce.
We saw demo that Peng did.
And right now, it's released to a limited number of
participating partners that we just launched with yesterday.
It's not even fully available in the United States.
Things will slowly be released.
If you are a United States merchant, you can
apply to test it.
We just showed you the sign-up link in the FAQ section.
And then we hope to have more merchants available soon, also
internationally.
PENG YING: Yep.
That'll be very awesome.
We want to expand as quickly as possible.
MIHAI IONESCU: It is a really useful API.
And we've seen a lot of interest from merchants.
And we love international merchants.
Next one?
PENG YING: Next one's for me.
"Will there be any APIs exposed for adding loyalty
cards?" Again, I wish I could comment on things.
I mean, I can't speculate on when things are going to be
launched or if they're going to be launched, even.
So I guess it's going to be a waiting game.
MIHAI IONESCU: Yeah, which one is going to be released first?
PENG YING: If it's launched, then it's launched.
And then you'll know.
MIHAI IONESCU: I'll take the next one,
which is somehow related.
There is one merchant who says, "We are running a
universal loyalty platform using NFC tags.
If I want users to be able to adopt into the Google Wallet
ecosystem, what is the tag specification to be used?" So
if I understand the question correctly, it is about
NFC-enabled loyalty cards.
For example, at the grocery store, instead of swiping the
card, you just tap the card.
And that'll be your loyalty card.
If you have multiple cards like that, definitely it makes
sense to add all of them into the phone.
And don't go--
when you switch retailers--
PENG YING: --NFC to NFC.
MIHAI IONESCU: And then you just tap the phone, and
automatically it will just work.
So instead of carrying a lot of cards, you
just carry the phone.
So as we talked in the past, this would fit perfectly
within the Wallet ecosystem.
Right now, as we said earlier, we don't have an API.
But, yeah, it's something that is definitely worth
considering.
PENG YING: Yeah, they could even-- so like, we do some
stuff in the background, too.
So it doesn't have to be NFC-enabled.
It could be maybe a back-end API.
When the transaction gets to Google, then we can do
something with the transaction information as well.
MIHAI IONESCU: So an API for the merchant, we enable the
loyalty card directly on the phone.
That would be something great.
Let's see.
I guess that's it for questions.
Anything else we want to announce?
So we can recap.
So we had major release this week.
PENG YING: Google Wallet for online commerce, now available
for consumers.
Soon for developers and merchants like yourselves.
MIHAI IONESCU: And then next week, look for an announcement
for Stack Overflow.
We're moving all our questions, all our support to
Stack Overflow across all Wallet APIs.
And if you're in the Midwest area, Kansas City, there is a
Google for Entrepreneurs Conference at the Kauffman
Center, November 13.
If you have time, it's going to be really cool.
Make sure to attend and sign up.
PENG YING: Awesome.
MIHAI IONESCU: OK.
Well, thank you.
PENG YING: Short and sweet this week.
Next week we have a great show for you-- or not next week.
In two weeks, we have another great session for you.
We'll be bringing on a partner to showcase how they've
implemented Google Wallet for digital goods.
MIHAI IONESCU: Monetization.
PENG YING: Yeah, monetization.
MIHAI IONESCU: It's making money.
PENG YING: It's going to be fun.
MIHAI IONESCU: All right.
Thanks, everyone.
And see you in two weeks.
PENG YING: See you.
MIHAI IONESCU: Bye-bye.
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