Sampath Bank now enables businesses to accept Google Pay over the Sampath Bank Internet Payment Gateway (IPG), powered by Bancstac. This innovation allows merchants to seamlessly offer Google Pay as a payment method, providing customers with a secure and frictionless biometric checkout experience using Android devices.

An Immediate Revenue Driver for Merchants

Participating merchants can now offer Google Pay across e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and digital invoices. By offering one of the world's most popular digital wallets, merchants gain a powerful tool to accept payments from over 250 million wallet users across 85 countries. Crucially, this capability requires zero technical integration or development for businesses already utilising or onboarding onto the Sampath Bank IPG.

How Google Pay Checkout Works

When a customer selects Google Pay on a merchant's payment page, the IPG facilitates a secure transaction using tokenization, ensuring that sensitive card details are never exposed or shared. Cardholders are authenticated via robust security protocols, including biometric verification and device passcodes. Upon successful verification, the transaction is processed in real-time by Bancstac, and financial reconciliation is handled automatically within the standard Sampath Bank settlement process, maintaining accounting simplicity for the merchant.

Chirath Samarasekara, Head of Card Centre, Sampath Bank, said: “At Sampath Bank, we continually adopt new technologies that drive higher customer engagement and add tangible value to our payment ecosystem. We are proud to extend our strategic partnership with Bancstac to deliver Google Pay capabilities to our extensive merchant base. This solution provides our business partners with an effortless tool to grow their business to more customers and countries whilst offering the convenience and security of Google Pay”.

Evan Lau, CEO of Bancstac, said: “By enabling Google Pay, we have eliminated technical barriers for merchants wishing to accept one of the most widely used digital wallets globally. This payment innovation gives Sampath Bank merchants the tools to help increase sales conversions, reduce cart abandonment and enhance the digital payment experience for their customers”.

Photo caption: From left: Evan Lau, CEO – Bancstac and Chirath Samarasekara – Head of Card Centre, Sampath Bank PLC