WhatsApp will also allow you to send money through chats
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The most widely used messaging application in the world continues to search for formulas to conquer markets. If we already knew that WhatsApp is implementing its Business or business version, now we see what its payment service looks like. Yes, payments or sending money between users through chats. Something that is being talked about more and more strongly and that, now, begins to be a reality.
Of course, for the moment WhatsApp will only implement this function in emerging countries such as IndiaThere, starting this month of November, it will begin to test its in-app payment system. If all goes well, the function will be available to use in December, as stated by Gizmodo.
Fast but only for India
According to sources such as Business Insider, the system chosen by WhatsApp will be P2P or user to user Something that would ensure the process and allow that the system worked without intermediaries. All this in response to a market in which WhatsApp has a large market share, being the majority messaging application.
As well as digital payments. And it is that in India the population is used to making daily payments directly through the Internet with their mobile phones. Thus, being able to send money between users would be a really comfortable and useful practice for them.
How does it work
The payment function between WhatsApp users is fully integrated into the application. To such an extent that it is necessary to display the share menu to find it. Along with the photograph, the videos or the voice notes, the payments will have their own icon Thus, you just have to click on it in one of the conversations where want to send money.
After that, all you have to do is enter the amount of money to send and a security code that allows you to carry out the transfer. The process is carried out instantly so that the other user has the amount sent. In addition, like any shared element, it is registered directly in the chat.
Mobile payments
More and more banks and applications are opting to bring users' financial management to mobile phones.At the moment WhatsApp seems to limit this feature to countries like India. However, banks and manufacturers have already brought mobile payment options to developed countries: Samsung Pay and Apple Pay as great exponents. It is logical that, in the near future, with this system in place, even more systems for sending money among users will proliferate Even more so if you do not depend on banks, companies , types of mobiles or applications that only use some and not others.
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