McDonald’s Memo Says Android Pay Launching This Week

This memo posted on Reddit states that McDonald’s will start accepting the new Android Pay option on Aug. 26. (Photo: reddit/blackmartian)

Though it hasn’t received the headlines that Apple Pay has, Google’s Android Pay mobile payment has been slated for a vague “later this year” launch. Recently leaked memos from McDonald’s now seem to indicate that the platform could go live as early as this week.

This is according to Android Police, which posted a screengrab of a “Mobile Payment Update” note from a McDonald’s location. It states that Android Pay begins Aug. 26 and instructs employees that it will work the same way as Apple Pay works on their payment terminals.

A second McDonald’s memo, posted to Reddit, echoes the Aug. 26 date.

What calls the accuracy of this information into question is the mention in both notes that Samsung Pay will launch Aug. 21. It didn’t and isn’t slated to debut until September.

Android Police believes the confusion can be attributed to confusion with the Aug. 21 debut of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ device. Also, as Mashable notes, Samsung Pay did launch last week in the company’s home country of South Korea.

Android Pay is definitely in the offing, whether it’s this week or in the weeks to come. We’ll know soon enough whether the Aug. 26 date is real or not.