Google Wallet adds a geolocated payment receipt history on a card. What easily manage your accounting, without using the slightest receipt of cash.
Google is pushing a new, much more detailed payments in its Wallet application. Each receipt now has in addition to the amount, the store name, its address and a button to call it directly when a phone number is available.
This precise location thus allows the application to display a new view that places each transaction on a card. However, it is not active by default. And his arrival on all devices with the latest version of Wallet seems still in progress (the new display was available at the time of writing this article).
How to activate this new detailed history of payments
The firm proposed something similar (less precise) a few months ago. But between July and August Google seems to have deactivated this on the server side – probably to prepare for the arrival of this new option.
Of course, not everyone is obliged to activate it: its usefulness depends on how you manage your finances, or if you carry out a freelance professional activity. Activating or deactivating it is very simple. To take advantage of this novelty, It is enough to touch one of your cards and open one of your last receipts.
You will then see a message offering you to get more detailed receipts during your next transactions. Then touch this card and follow the steps to finalize the configuration. Note that a new authorization must be granted to Wallet: precise location. This is essential to collect all the necessary information on the precise location where you make a payment.
Your precise location is only collected when you make contactless with your smartphone. Moreover, The new view with integrated card is only displayed for your next purchases. We appreciate in passing that Google asks Android users to grant this permission themselves-for a native application posing a priori little risk.
