WhatsApp Pay In India Launched | How Users Will Get Its Benefits?

WhatsApp Pay digital payment service has been officially launched in India. With the help of this service, users can now make payments during chatting with anyone anywhere. This service can offer a great competition to digital wallets available in the market like PaytmGoogle Pay, PhonePe etc.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently approved WhatsApp’s UPI service “WhatsApp Pay” to launch in India. After which WhatsApp Pay has officially launched in India. 

As we know that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was testing it in India for a long time, which has now been made available for Android and iOS users. But in the first segment of WhatsApp Pay, NPCI has set a limit of 2 crore  Indian users. That means that only limited number of users will get the option to use the payment feature of WhatsApp right now.

What is WhatsApp Pay?

WhatsApp Pay service was running on beta testing in India for the last two years. Because it was not officially launched due to some technical problems coming in it. But now after approval from NPCI and Govt. of India, it has been made available to Indian users. This is a UPI based service and with its help, users can send money to anyone in just one click like photos, videos & emojis in the chat box itself.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that 

Sending money will be now as easy as sending a message, photos & videos. Now you can send money to your friends and family through WhatsApp as easily as sending a message. There’s no fee, and it’s supported by more than 140 banks. And because it’s WhatsApp, it’s secure and private too.

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Will Support 10 Languages

WhatsApp Pay service is going to be available in 10 local languages of India and users can use any of these languages as per their convenience. This feature is available on both Android and iOS platforms. 

But for this, you have to update your WhatsApp account first. To avail this feature, it is necessary to have a UPI based debit card with users.

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WhatsApp Pay Features

Using the features available in WhatsApp Pay service, users can transfer up to One Lakh Rupees in a day.

With this feature, you can send money to any of your WhatsApp contact numbers anytime, anywhere in just one click. 

Also this awesome feature provides you the facility of Mobile/DTH Recharge. Money transferred from WhatsApp Pay will be directly saved in your bank account.

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