Do you have your payment information stored online despite what Clark Howard and Craig Johnson have said?

No offense to either Clark or Craig, but I can’t say there aren’t any e-commerce sites that don’t require active account holders to have their payment information stored online. Amazon, Walmart, and Costco don’t allow Google Wallet for purchases on their respective regular websites at the present time. Um, don’t some e-commerce sites require payment information to be stored for membership auto-renewal stuff? In any case, check out this link:

https://clark.com/technology/why-you-should-never-store-your-payment-information-online/

I think I saw that Amazon accepts G Pay. Also, even if you add your payment info to a site you can delete it after the purchase goes. through and input it monthly before your subscribe and save is scheduled. You could also have a dedicated debit card on file and put just enough money in monthly to cover the charge. Costco does accept G Pay if you have their app, at least at the warehouse tho maybe not online.

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No offense, Jane, but as a certain Xander says in this 2023 thread, “Google Pay is not available on Amazon.” You might want to check out this NerdWallet article:

I have lots of payment information stored online!!!

I use CapitalOne virtual cards, which are only good at one merchant. If they get stolen, they are worthless to the thief. I think I have 20-30 of these set up for all of my routine pays.

I am shamelessly asking you to use my Capital One referral link.

My credit card provider supports Virtual Card Numbers and those are what I use at online merchants that store them. Its not quite as nice as what @ochotona has available, but it does the trick.