It seems that version 2.18.21 of the messaging application brings with it a major improvement. A section for mobile payments is displayed.
Although at the moment it is only available in India.
This is not a great new service, as there are already similar ones, such as Apple Pay, Android Pay,
WhatsApp offers payments via iPhone
WhatsApp wants to make your life easier, so you can make payments from the same application. No need to install anything else.
This expands the options with which you can make payments.
WaBetaInfo has revealed the news on his Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/WABetaInfo/status/961492696958472192
It looks like it will be extremely easy to activate this option.
In a few simple steps we can configure our bank within the application, and make payments with this option.
Although at the moment, as we have mentioned before, it is only available in India.
Why in India? Because it is the country that has the most users of said app.
Testing started in early February. We expect it to arrive in the next few weeks, in most countries.
What are the advantages of WhatsApp Pay?
At the moment that WhatsApp offers payments through the iPhone, it is making life easier for us and you are surely wondering: Why?.
Because we can transact with other contacts regardless of their operating system.
To be able to carry out the transactions we must link our bank account. At the moment we do not know for sure how this link will be made.
We assume that WhatsApp will have to make agreements with banks, in the style of Samsung Pay .
In addition, it seems to be, yet to be confirmed, that in addition to making money transfers, you can make payments in stores and stores.
Perhaps the payment system is through a QR code that will be scanned.
Everything is still very much up in the air.
This is great news, because despite the fact that there are many payment apps between users, none have had the expected success. But this time, by implementing the service in an app with a lot of users, it might be successful. We'll tell you.
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