By Chris Skeldon 
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular online instant communication platform, is in the system WhatsApp Pay One of his most recent assets. This function, as the name suggests, can be used to receive or send money through the app.
Your developers will now have included a new shortcut that will simplify this process through the app. In fact, there is a new button to simplify the use of this payment system, which facilitates the rapid transfer of funds through the platform.
The news is in WhatsApp version 2.21.17 for Android
However, it is an experimental feature, which is only available in the beta version of the Android app. As stated in the post WABetaInfo, always attentive to the designs of this platform for the Facebook group, the news can already be tested.
More specifically, anyone who joined the testing program – simple and free procedure – can try out WhatsApp version 2.21.17. By installing this version, you will be able to take advantage of this new payment shortcut.
Note, however, that WhatsApp Pay is only available in some countries and regions, such as Brazil, India, as a starting point. However, the company intends to increase the availability of the respective system.
The new Payment shortcut is also available in iOS beta
Until then, to use WhatsApp Pay, users had to access chat actions and only then could they send a payment through the app. From now on, if the functions under test now reach the stable version, there will be a dedicated shortcut for that.
It is worth noting that WhatsApp Pay is built on the basis of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform. This is the same rule used, for example, by Google with its Google Pay system. It is particularly safe and easy to use.
For those interested in the beta version of this instant communication platform, there is another beta version available now. More specifically, version 2.21.17.20 for Android mobile devices.
Finally, it is worth noting that even in Brazil, WhatsApp Pay is a beta program. Thus, it is in its initial stage of testing and feedback in order to ascertain the rate of its use, as well as the opinions of users.
On the other hand, in India it is already a more popular payment platform, competing with other well-established options like the Google Pay example mentioned above. Unfortunately, there are no expectations for its availability in Europe.
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