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A little over a week ago, Google announced that order tracking had fully rolled out to Google Wallet for everyone in the US. First announced in June, the idea behind order tracking is simple: let you see and track all your online orders — not just those made through Google Pay — in the Wallet app.
Google didn’t make much fanfare about Wallet’s order tracking, and when I first heard about it, I didn’t think much of it either. However, after having the feature on my Wallet app for the last few days, I’m completely sold.
There’s no shortage of ways to track online orders on your Android phone in 2026. The Google Play Store is filled with apps dedicated to order tracking, many of which have been around for years. Google itself already shows recent online orders in the Gmail app, and you can use Gemini to do this, too.
That’s all fine and dandy, but I’m not particularly keen about any of these solutions. I don’t want or need another app on my phone. I like to spend as little time as possible looking at my email inbox, and I don’t trust Gemini to get my order information right.
Order tracking in Google Wallet pulls its information from your Gmail account, so the data it gathers really isn’t that different from the Gmail order info that exists today. However, I think it having a home in the Wallet app makes a lot more sense.
There are two main ways to interact with order tracking in Google Wallet: home screen pop-ups and the main transactions page. I first realized order tracking had come to my Wallet app when I opened it and saw a pop-up that a recent Walmart order had been delivered. Tapping the pop-up showed more information about the order (including the order total, order number, etc.), and tapping the X icon dismissed it from the Wallet home page. Clean, simple, and effective.
If you want to take a closer look at your orders, tap the View more button at the bottom of the Wallet app. Here, you’ll see that the top of the Transactions tab now has a carousel showing your latest online orders. Swipe all the way to the left on this carousel, and you can tap All orders to view a full history of all your online order information.
Even in this early stage, I think order tracking in Google Wallet is implemented really well. Without any extra work required on my part, I now have a central place to see all of my orders at a glance. A recent Amazon order for dog treats and supplements appeared immediately, as did an order from the official Converse website. Scrolling through the list, I also see order info for Meijer pickup orders, Google Play subscriptions, Pet Supplies Plus, and more. If you receive an order-related email at your Gmail address, it should appear in Wallet without you lifting a finger.
All of this is presented on the new “Transactions” page, and I particularly like that you can filter it to show only online orders, Google Pay/Wallet transactions, or both. As someone who uses a budget app to manually log my purchases throughout the month (and sometimes forgets to do so), having a page like this with a reverse-chronological list of all my in-person and online orders is brilliant.
As with any new software feature, Google Wallet order tracking isn’t perfect. The app shows a handful of orders labeled “Ready for pickup” that were picked up days ago. An option to mark an order as picked up/completed would be great. I’d also like the ability to manually pin certain orders to Wallet’s homepage. If I have an anticipated order I want to keep tabs on, pinning it to the main Wallet page rather than having to tap “View more” to find it would be much better.
I certainly hope these changes come to fruition, but regardless of if/when they happen, the presence of order tracking is just the latest in a series of excellent updates to Google Wallet this year. This past April, Wallet underwent a massive (and fantastic) redesign. According to our own recent findings, Google is also working on a bold new look for passes, a helpful Updates page to monitor pass changes, and a clever tool to verify your age online.
Google Wallet may not be the most exciting app in Google’s portfolio, but it is arguably one of the most important — and it’s one I use regularly throughout the week. I think Google has just about nailed the payment and pass experience at this point, so it’s nice to see things like order tracking flesh out the app experience with genuinely useful new features.
So long as Google doesn’t go overboard and end up in a 2020 Google Pay situation, I think experimenting with smart additions like order tracking is great, and I hope we see more of it.
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