The Google Play Store is full of apps, books, games, and more that require payment to access. Here’s how to add new cards to your account and remove old ones.
The Google Play Store is the official app marketplace for Android phones and tablets. While there’s a wide variety of apps and services that you can download and install from the platform for free, a lot of them offer premium features and additional content that you need to pay for. There are also just as many apps that can be acquired for a one-time fee. In order to access those, you need to link a payment method with your Google Play account.
As a Google account holder, you’ve likely been prompted multiple times to add a payment method to your Google Play profile so that you can purchase content. Based on testing and according to the general consensus online, you don’t actually need to have a payment method in place to have a Google Play account and access the Android app catalog, but it would be useful to have in the event that you come across something that’s not available for free.How to add a payment method to your Google Play account
When you link a funding source with your Google account, the payment method becomes accessible on Google Play as well. Here’s how to do it on a computer:
The steps for adding a payment method are similar on an Android device or for a Chromebook user with the Play Store app enabled:
Other Google payment methods you can add (and access through Google Play) include PayPal and Google Play gift cards, which you can purchase online and in person.
