How to use WhatsApp Pay to send money to contacts?

Last updated on Jun 26, 2021, 03:51 pm WhatsApp Pay isn’t popular, but here’s how you can use it Facebook-owned WhatsApp first introduced an in-app money transfer service in 2018 as part of a trial. Named WhatsApp Pay, it officially launched last year and is now available to 20 million users in India. However, it doesn’t seem to have caught on like rival UPI solutions—PhonePe and Google Pay—despite the Centre’s Digital India initiative. WhatsApp Pay isn’t popular yet, but here’s how to use it. WhatsApp has more users from India than any other country According to Statista, India had over 340 million WhatsApp users as of January 2021. That is the largest number of WhatsApp users from a single country. Brazil ranks a distant second with 99 million users. However, when it was launched over two years ago as a test in partnership with ICICI Bank, WhatsApp Pay was available to just one million users in India. Today, around 20 million people have access to WhatsApp Pay Business Standard reported that on February 7, 2020, WhatsApp Pay received approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for a widespread rollout in a phased manner. The first phase made the…
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