Google Pay is aiming at becoming a true virtual wallet by gathering payment and loyalty cards in a single application. Since last year, commuters in Las Vegas, Portland, and the West Midlands have also been able to save their transit tickets in their phones, allowing them to leave their wallets at home. Melburnians, and more generally Victorians, can also use their handsets as their transportation pass now, as Google Pay just added support for Myki, the region's transit card — not the password manager we reviewed.

Commuters with an NFC-enabled Android device running version 5.0 or higher and a full-fare, child, senior, or general concession Myki card can sign up to the trial, which is currently open to 4,000 testers before it rolls out to a broader audience. Once accepted in the program, you'll be able to add a new Myki Money or Myki Pass card to your Google Pay account and top it up with any Visa or Mastercard card. Besides saving the card information and letting you hop on public transport, Google Pay also displays your trip history and remaining balance in the application, so you don't have to use other software to check them out.

As this is still a trial program, Google hasn't updated its official support page yet, but we hope Myki will appear on it very soon.

UPDATE: 2019/04/08 2:22pm PDT BY HAGOP KAVAFIAN

According to one of our tipsters, Google Maps now displays the remaining Myki balance directly within the app when viewing public transport directions. We're not sure if the feature was there from the start or if it's just been added, but either way, it's a neat addition that saves you the trouble of going through the gates with an empty balance.

Source: Ausdroid, Reddit

Thanks: John, Nick, Ketitom, Nathan Bullen