WhatsApp facilitates payments done the messaging app with WhatsApp Pay

The world's most popular instant communications platform over the Internet, WhatsApp, has the WhatsApp Pay system as one of its most recent assets. This function, as the name implies, can be used to receive or send money from side to side the app.

Your developers will now have included a novel shortcut that will simplify this process through the application. Indeed, there is a new button to streamline the use of this payment system, facilitating quick transfer of funds through the platform.

The news are present in the WhatsApp version 2.21.17 for Android

 The new option for speedy access to the WhatsApp Pay system. Credit: WABetaInfo .

It is, however, an experimental feature, available only in the beta version of the Android app. As the WABetaInfo publication , always attentive to the designs of this platform of the Facebook group, the news can already be tested.

More precisely, anyone who has joined the testing program - a simple and free procedure - can try the WhatsApp 2.21.17 form. By installing this version, you resolve be able to take advantage of this new payment shortcut.

Memo, however, that the WhatsApp Pay system is only available in some countries and regions, namely Brazil and India, as pointed out by the platform . However, it is the company's intention to increase the availability of the system in question.

The new payment shortcut is likewise available in the iOS beta version

Until at that moment, to use WhatsApp Pay, users had to access the chat actions and only then can send a payment through the app. From now on, if the functions now under test reach the stable version, there will be a dedicated shortcut for that.

It should be eminent that the WhatsApp Pay system was built based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform. This is the same base used, for example, by Google with its Google Pay system. It's particularly safe and easy to use.

For those attentive in the beta version of this instant communications platform there is another trial version available now. Extra specifically, version 2.21.17.20 for Android mobile devices.

Finally, it should be noted that level in Brazil the WhatsApp Pay system is a pilot program. It is, therefore, in its initial testing and feedback phase in order to ascertain its usage rate, as well as user feelings.

On the other hand, fashionable India it is now a more popular payment platform, competing with other well-established options like the aforementioned Google Pay example. Unfortunately, there is no forecast for its accessibility in Europe.