Facilitating payments on the web (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)

Key Takeaways

there are many ways to add support for payments on your website but which one is right for you and your customers my name is Sauk and I am a developer advocate with Google pay today I want to provide some guidance on how you as developers can enhance the online checkout experience for your customers specifically I'll walk you through how to make payments simple and more secure with autofill and Google pay in many cases people make online purchases with a credit or debit card providing this information is often accompanied with a request for other details lucky uses shipping or billing address autofill simplifies this experience for users by making their payment details readily available during the checkout flow order field does much the work for the user and no additional effort is required by website operators to take advantage of it author I feel works by providing a list of suggested payment and contact details that have been saved to the users browser if the user is signed in to Chrome chrome autofill extends this by asking the user to save these details to their Google account this action makes the users payment and contact details available across any of the chrome enabled devices checkout formed can vary significantly from one website to another to account for this chrome autofill uses heuristics to identify payment and contact detail fields to improve the effectiveness of autofill and to ensure that your users have a great autofill experience make sure your form fields are tagged with their respective attributes for credit card fields and address fields links to autofill resources can be found in the video's description below with Google pay you can make checkout even easier for customers by eliminating payment and shipping forms altogether Google pay provides users with a simple and secure method for entering their payment and shipping information on websites plus it works across all modern browsers hundreds of millions of Google users already have their payment details saved to Google pay that means purchases are just a click away they don't even need to enter a CVC in addition to accepting credit card and debit card payments Google pay offers additional payment methods like PayPal once configured using PayPal as a payment method with Google pay no longer requires that you to re-enter their PayPal password when making a payment the security and privacy of user data is paramount to Google and this is no different when it comes to payment data in Google pay payment credentials are encrypted for secure payment processing integrating the Google pay button into your website is easy and testing it out requires very little effort first include the Google page of script file check if the user is ready to pay add the Google pay button request payment data and finally extract the payment token for processing a detailed step-by-step guide is available as a codelab linked in the description below to speed up and simplify the purchasing experience for your customers I have the Google pay button to your checkout flow Shopping Cart and product pages Google pay is always making improvements for both our merchants and users so keep an eye out for new features like promo codes and offers we've also been experimenting with enhancements to the Google pay button and early results have shown increased usage rates amongst users if you are interested in early access to these new features please let us know by following the link in the description below what about the payment request API the payment request API is a w3c standard that helps users share their payment and contact details with websites using web or native payment apps like Google Play if you are a payment app provider we encourage you to explore the payment request API as a way to offer your users and enhance experience on Chrome browsers payment app creators can use the web payment standard to deliver a better user experience the Google page ova script library leverages the payment request API to provide a native experience on Chrome for Android with a native experience rolling out soon on Chrome for desktop at the moment the payment request API is not consistently supported across all browsers and requires developers to include browser specific logic therefore to accept Google pay we recommend that developers integrate with the Google page out script library directly Google pay can simplify your customers purchasing experience by eliminating the need to interact with a payment form completely in addition it provides a simple browser agnostic API for developers a simple and secure payment experience for users on both mobile and desktop support for additional forms of payment and in future access to features like promo codes and offers when used together water fill and Google pay can help to make payments simple and secure thanks for watching and see you next time [Music]