{"id":904427,"date":"2025-02-10T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=904427"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:31:47","slug":"whatsapp-reportedly-testing-bill-payment-feature-for-users-in-india-heres-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/10\/whatsapp-reportedly-testing-bill-payment-feature-for-users-in-india-heres-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp reportedly testing bill payment feature for users in India: Here\u2019s what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular messaging app WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that would allow users in India to make various bill payments directly within the app. This development marks a significant expansion of WhatsApp&#8217;s financial services offerings in one of its largest markets.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Android Authority, the upcoming feature is expected to enable users to pay a variety of bills, including electricity bills, water bills, mobile recharges, rent payments, and more. This functionality would be integrated into WhatsApp&#8217;s existing UPI-based payment system, WhatsApp Pay1. Currently, WhatsApp Pay allows users to send money to contacts and make payments to businesses via UPI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular messaging app WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that would allow users in India to make various bill payments directly within the app. This development marks a significant expansion of WhatsApp&#8217;s financial services offerings in one of its largest markets. As reported by Android Authority, the upcoming feature is expected to enable users to pay a variety of bills, including electricity bills, water bills, mobile recharges, rent payments, and more. This functionality would be integrated into WhatsApp&#8217;s existing UPI-based payment system, WhatsApp Pay1. Currently, WhatsApp Pay allows users to send money to contacts and make payments to businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}