Like Tencent’s money transfer service on WeChat, Freecharge features Chat and Pay. In a blog post Freecharge had recently announced that users can now use its Chat n Pay facility to pay using WhatsApp. The procedure of using it is the users will have to go to Freecharge on WhatsApp, on the Freecharge Menu of their Android phone and click Enable. This will give them access to enable Freecharge in accessibility settings, then open WhatsApp and type in the amount followed by FC, for example 100F, and the transfer’s will be done.
During the launch of FreeCharge’s ‘Chat-n-Pay’ feature, Anand Chandrasekaran, the Snapdeal Chief Product Officer said in an exclusive Business Insider interview that the intuition was that payments can be social. Looks like, they have done it. In March, the Chat n Pay feature was launched on FreeCharge. It was built as a feature better than the new chat-based communication found in the latest version of the FreeCharge app.
To enable its Wallet payments in merchant outlets, FreeCharge has recently joined hands with Zivame, ClearTrip, RedBus and Cafe Coffee Day. The company claims that the customers can pay any time within 10 seconds. They say that this is a secure way across all RedBus platforms. FreeCharge is currently positioned against segment-leader Paytm. The portal is a key to Snapdeal’s businesses in building an all-inclusive online marketplace like China’s Alibaba. Lt us know your thoughts and opinions on the same through the comments section below or through any of our social media channels.
