{"id":983033,"date":"2026-01-03T07:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983033"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:06:40","slug":"whatsapp-to-roll-out-local-billing-for-business-users-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/whatsapp-to-roll-out-local-billing-for-business-users-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to roll out local billing for business users later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: WhatsApp is set to launch local billing for business users in India and Brazil by the second half of 2026, a move aimed at reducing foreign exchange costs, eliminating cross-border transaction issues and enabling faster settlements in two of its largest markets. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Meta-owned platform&#8217;s business messaging services are billed largely in US dollars, forcing Indian startups and enterprises to deal with forex mark-ups, currency volatility and compliance challenges. With local billing, eligible Indian customers will be billed in rupees, allowing payments through domestic channels and improving predictability of costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: WhatsApp is set to launch local billing for business users in India and Brazil by the second half of 2026, a move aimed at reducing foreign exchange costs, eliminating cross-border transaction issues and enabling faster settlements in two of its largest markets. Currently, the Meta-owned platform&#8217;s business messaging services are billed largely in US dollars, forcing Indian startups and enterprises to deal with forex mark-ups, currency volatility and compliance challenges. With local billing, eligible Indian customers will be billed in rupees, allowing payments through domestic channels and improving predictability of costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983033","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}