Online payments via WhatsApp: innovation via a communication platform!

 

The rise of online payments in India is imminent and engaging as the local government is pushing forward new digital billing alternatives for merchants and shoppers to get accustomed to. Facilities such as microtransactions, lending and mobile wallet are solicited as they tend to take control of the e-commerce industry.

Amid the avail of cashless payment methods, one communication platform, generated by the international Meta Groupe, wants to create its very own payment provider using your mobile phone. Indeed, WhatsApp’s line of vision is to operate their new billing system ‘’without a cap’’.

What is a CAP?

A converged application platform, also referred to as CAP is a structured data keeping system which links all services on several networks and compacts them all in one automated computing service. In other words, WhatsApp’s escalating request for a no-CAP operating infrastructure would imply that the funding, billing and other e-payment activities could be carried out casually between customers as long as they were in possession of one another’s contact details.

Unfortunately, the feedbacks from the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) were not in favor of this demand. Henceforth, it was after years of trial and errors, attempting at meeting the Indian e-finance policies and regulations that the NPCI gave the green light for WhatsApp to launch their project in 2020!

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The WhatsApp logo on a mobile, showing the worldwide connectivity of the app

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