Google’s Project Fi today launches a nifty new feature to its wireless service. This NEW feature is called GROUP REPAY that’ll make it easy for a plan owner to get paid by the other members of the family plan. Most carrier offers group plans that allow A user to share his/her wireless plan with multiple family members, friends or, some inclined, random strangers.
Almost all adults share their wireless plans with at least one other person which means All Beneficiaries most find a way to repay the main account holder every month and splitting the bill can be tough. It takes work to calculate how much each person owes and can feel awkward to remind others to pay you back.
To take Off the stress and headache involve in sharing your wireless plan, Google introduced group repay. The Group Repay make it easy for a plan owner to get paid by the other members of the family plan each month. It calculate participating members’ portion of the bill, e.i how much each plan member owes, whether that’s their individual total of the bill, a fixed amount that you set, or the cost of their data usage above 1GB. Group pay also send out payment reminders to each member, and provide a simple way for members to repay plan owners directly through Project Fi.
Unsurprisingly, the google repay feature is integrated with Google Wallet for sending and receiving payments, so plan members can tap the payment notification right from the Fi notification on their Android home screen hitting on “Send Money” to pay for their portion of the bill. The plan owner can cash out these payments to a debit card or checking account if they’d like.
FINAL WORDS
Know what you owe—no math required: Say Goodbye to days have to pull out a calculator every month to figure out everyone’s share of the phone bill. whatever option you decide to select, Project Fi will do the math. No-matter the amount you’ve set of the cost of their data usage above 1GB for members total of the bill, Project Fi will automatically calculate the correct amount.
Easy setup, reminders, and payments: Simply select a repayment amount for each member at due time, Project Fi will send repayment notifications to each member to pay their bills.
Sending and Receiving payments is made simple with Google Wallet integration. For-there more Fi send money track your Project Fi payment history. View your full payment history and payment statuses for the current month on group repay.
Finally, if you’ve got a group plan on Project Fi, be sure to give Group Repay a look. One other Project Fi detail worth mentioning is that for a limited time (June 19th through July 17th, ), when Project Fi plan owners add a new member to their group plan, both will receive a free month of Fi Basics.