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Tuesday 9 June 2020

WhatsApp Pay ~ In-Chat Payment


WhatsApp Pay ~ In-Chat Payment

What'sapp is not only a communication tools which is act an important platform for many individual small business entrepreneurs by Whatsapp Business feature, which helps consumers to convey their requirements better to the business persons clarify their doubts by just few clicks and some typing. The key missing component in this business is payment service which includes the user to open additional application or any other payment gateways and complete the payment process.

The introductions of What’sapp pay service and integrate that with what'sapp business sounds great.

"Take the order, send the bill and obtain the payment all on one app"

Businesses are too excited about the idea of doing business and receiving payments in the same window.

There is no doubt that WhatsApp Payments is extremely new and limited in functionality in its current state. All you can do is send or receive money at the moment. In comparison, apps like Google Pay, PhonePe and PayTM also allow you to make payments for services and products.

WhatsApp Pay is a Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based payments service will allow users to make payments to anyone from their WhatsApp contact list; It will enable WhatsApp users to both send and receive money.

The UPI interface allows customers to form instant fund transfers through a virtual address, also referred to as, Virtual Payment Address (VPA). The fund transfer process is fast, easy and may be done on a 24/7 basis on all three hundred and sixty five days during a year.

Whatsapp Pay: Modes of transaction

During the initial phase, WhatsApp Pay allowed users to send money only to their contacts after which it enabled UPI ID. WhatsApp Pay users could enter the UPI ID and send money. Later in March WhatsApp introduced QR code for its payments service. Each WhatsApp Pay user features a unique QR code which users can scan and send money.

Whatsapp Pay in India

Whatsapp's payment gateway WhatsApp Pay has been on its Beta tests for nearly two years and Facebook has been struggling to launch it in India for quite a while now. However, the Facebook-owned messaging application is reportedly launching its payments option in partnership with three private banks in India within the coming months.
Whatsapp's two-year delay even after getting restricted testing clearance from the National Payments Corporation of India was mainly because the corporate faced multiple legal and regulatory hurdles.

RBI has also directed the NCPI to not allow a full-scale launch of a payments business by WhatsApp, on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) till they're fully compliant.
The latest development damages the company’s aspirations to have a payment play in India on the fast-growing UPI network. WhatsApp Pay has been restricted to 1 million users in beta-mode since February 2018. The Facebook-owned social messaging app has quite 400 million users in India and quite 2 billion users worldwide. With these many subscribers to the app, India is that the largest marketplace for the app currently. For this reason, the upcoming WhatsApp Pay service is touted to be hit among the users in terms of digital transactions. In this manner WhastApp Pay aims to require on already established digital payment gateways within the country, mainly Google Pay and Paytm.

Features and Benefits of WhatsApp In-Chat Payment

·        Make payment to anyone on WhatsApp contact list from anywhere and at anytime.

·        User-friendly ‘pay’ feature that makes transferring funds as simple as sending a photo or a message.

·        The payee/beneficiary will receive a payment notification on their chat window once the fund transfer has been made

·        There is no need to ask the payee for account details such as account number or IFSC Code. All you would like may be a virtual address to form payment

·        The WhatsApp In-Chat Payment application is a one-of-a-kind payment feature.

The WhatsApp Payments feature are going to be directly competing with Google Tez and BHIM UPI app. Unlike its predecessors, WhatsApp Payments currently doesn't offer any cashbacks to its users.

WhatsApp security features 

WhatsApp has decided to intensify the safety round the app. In the first beta update this year, WhatsApp has introduced the Authentication feature for an additional layer of security. The feature has been unrolled in WhatsApp beta update 2.19.3 version for Android devices. It is available for devices running Android Marshmallow or higher and equipped with a fingerprint sensor. The Authentication feature on WhatsApp for Android uses either a pre-registered fingerprint on the device or a fresh one on the app. This feature is analogous security feature to what has been seen during a few payment apps just like the Google Pay and Samsung Pay. While there are third party apps which may put a fingerprint lock, it'll be interesting to ascertain how effective native fingerprint protection for WhatsApp is. WhatsApp has already implemented FaceID and TouchID on iOS.

But these features are still under development and it will be some time before they are rolled out for open public. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has begun work on Authentication feature for its Android version. Now already in beta, the feature fingerprint unlock for all WhatsApp is predicted to be unrolled soon. For WhatsApp beta users, they have to travel the Privacy section within the Settings menu.

Here is an choice to enable fingerprint authentication which has got to be toggled on. Once done, the appliance will ask you to register your fingerprint afresh or use the already saved fingerprint data on the device. This completes the setup for WhatsApp's Authentication feature.

Two-step authentication

The two-step authentication feature adds an optional security layer to your application. When enabled, WhatsApp asks users a six-digit passcode whenever you log-in together with your WhatsApp account on another phone. This code is different from OTP, so even if someone gets hold of your SIM card, no one will be able to log into your WhatsApp account.

Biometric Lock

While most Android phones with custom skins on top accompany some sort of app lock, it's safer to use the native biometric lock on WhatsApp. WhatsApp for Android now has the choice to line fingerprint lock for the app, whereas on iPhones, it comes with the choice of setting the FaceID or TouchID for the app– whichever is available for that specific phone. This way, you'll rest assured that nobody is reading your messages while you're away.


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