WhatsApp adopts 500 Indian villages to promote digital payments

The initial results from the pilot programme showed villagers adopting ‘payments on WhatsApp’ as new mode of payments.

From village-grocery store to the beauty-parlour and scores of other people and small and medium businesses are now accepting and receiving payments digitally using ‘payments on WhatsApp’, the company said.

“People sometimes don’t want to come all the way to the shop, instead, they just give me their list and location on WhatsApp and I deliver orders to them. I can also receive payments from them on WhatsApp,” said Anil K.R, a poultry shop owner at Kyathanahalli.
Further, to push digital access, WhatsApp recently also placed the rupee symbol in its chat-composer.

In addition, WhatsApp has equipped its main camera to scan QR codes, adding another layer of convenience for users of payments on WhatsApp, to enable access to 20 million QR-accepting stores in the country.

The company said it will continue to make significant investments in ‘payments on WhatsApp’ over the next six months, in order to accelerate its growth across India.

The initial results from the pilot programme showed villagers adopting ‘payments on WhatsApp’ as new mode of payments.

From village-grocery store to the beauty-parlour and scores of other people and small and medium businesses are now accepting and receiving payments digitally using ‘payments on WhatsApp’, the company said.

“People sometimes don’t want to come all the way to the shop, instead, they just give me their list and location on WhatsApp and I deliver orders to them. I can also receive payments from them on WhatsApp,” said Anil K.R, a poultry shop owner at Kyathanahalli.
Further, to push digital access, WhatsApp recently also placed the rupee symbol in its chat-composer.

In addition, WhatsApp has equipped its main camera to scan QR codes, adding another layer of convenience for users of payments on WhatsApp, to enable access to 20 million QR-accepting stores in the country.

The company said it will continue to make significant investments in ‘payments on WhatsApp’ over the next six months, in order to accelerate its growth across India. IANS