Short answer
GCash is a Philippine mobile wallet operated by G-Xchange, Inc. and licensed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as an electronic money issuer. For merchants it functions as a payment method rather than a gateway: customers pay from a wallet balance or linked funding source, and stores usually accept it through a gateway or a QR Ph code.
Also called: G-Cash
The checkout flow differs from a card in a way that affects how you build. The shopper is handed to the wallet to authorise, then returned to your site, and the authoritative confirmation arrives from your gateway rather than from the shopper’s screen. An order marked paid on redirect alone will eventually be marked paid for a payment that never completed, so the state change belongs on the webhook.
Operationally, wallet payments reconcile differently from cards. Refunds return to the wallet on the provider’s own timing, chargeback rights under the card networks do not apply, and disputes run through the wallet operator’s process instead. The pattern to avoid is informal collection to a personal GCash number: no order reference, no automatic confirmation, no audit trail, and a manual matching job that grows with every order.
Common questions
Is GCash a payment gateway?
No. GCash is a payment method, in the same sense that a Visa card is a payment method. Accepting it on a website normally means integrating a gateway that lists GCash among its supported options, or displaying a QR Ph code for in-person and social-commerce sales.
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Related terms
Maya
Maya is a Philippine digital payments brand covering a consumer wallet and a merchant acceptance business, alongside a Bangko Sentral-licensed digital bank under the same name.
Payment Gateway
A payment gateway is the service that carries a customer’s payment details from a checkout to the institutions that authorise and settle the money — card networks, banks, e-wallets.
PayMongo
PayMongo is a Philippine payment gateway built around a developer API and hosted checkout, aggregating cards, wallets including GCash, Maya and GrabPay, online banking and over-the-counter payments behind one integration.
Cash on Delivery (COD)
Cash on delivery is a payment arrangement where the buyer pays the courier at the doorstep and the courier remits the proceeds to the merchant later.
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