The company‘s global chief, Will Cathcart, said as the Facebook-owned messaging giant taps an upsurge in digital payments means the UPI-based payment service will officially launch in its dominant market by the end of 2019.
See what the company’s head stated in FAQ-
“We’re building a new payment feature for India that enables people to send money to each other via WhatsApp easily.
We are beta testing this feature, so it’s only available to a limited number of people in India.
WhatsApp Pay could use follow WeChat Pay’s business model because WeChat Pay is holding the number 1 position in China’s market with more than 800 million monthly active users(MAU).
A Quick Look Over WhatsApp Pay’s Working and Other Expected Services
Telegram, a popular instant messaging app, has introduced a new feature to give group admins on the app better control over how members engage, the latest in a series of interesting features it has rolled out in recent months to expand its appeal.
The feature, dubbed Slow Mode, allows a group administrator to dictate how often a member could send a message in the group.
If implemented by a group, members who have sent a text will have to wait between 30 seconds to as long as an hour before they can say something again in that group.
The messaging platform, which had more than 200 million monthly active users as of early 2018, said the new feature was aimed at making conversations in groups âmore orderlyâ and raising the âvalue of each individual message.â It suggested admins to âkeep [the feature] on permanently, or toggle as necessary to throttle rush hour traffic.â
As tech platforms including WhatsApp grapple with containing the spread of misinformation on their messaging services, the new addition from Telegram, which has largely remained immune to any similar controversies, illustrates how proactively it works on adding features to control the flow of information on its platform.
In comparison, WhatsApp has enforced limits on how often a user could forward a text message and is using machine learning techniques to weed out fraudulent users during the sign up procedure itself.
WhatsApp is considered to be the most popular messaging application, thus it is a good example to follow in messaging app development.
We've been spending the whole day with our smartphones at hand and with round-the-clock access to the Internet. So it's not surprising that we prefer to communicate with friends through all sorts of instant messengers. And the most popular among them is WhatsApp.
According to Statista, every month it is being used by 1 billion people all over the world. In addition, WhatsApp is the most sought-after application in 109 countries. But how to create a messaging app like WhatsApp? Is it even possible? Let's figure it out!