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Re:Facebook Pay by nmridul on Saturday February 12, 2022 @11:36PM (#30319267)
India is not in the list. But whatsapp payments are already available in India. So is Facebook pay something very different from whatsapp pay ?

It's confusing since the page says "Facebook Pay is a seamless, secure way to pay on the apps you already use". And whatsapp is listed as one app.

Maybe it's entirely different from UPI based Whatsapp pay

[] https://pay.facebook.com/availability/

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Re:Facebook Pay by metabro on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:03AM (#30319374)
You are right. Upi is something unique to India so WhatsApp pay in India can’t leverage the Fb pay infrastructure.

However, it can elsewhere including the us.

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Re:Facebook Pay by yunohn on Sunday February 13, 2022 @05:57AM (#30320856)
> can’t leverage the Fb pay infrastructure

According to “How it Works”, it supports multiple payment methods like PayPal & Credit cards - I don’t see why UPI couldn’t just be another option on the list specifically for India.

* https://pay.facebook.com/how-it-works/

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Re:Facebook Pay by shubham_sinha on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:03AM (#30319380)
WhatsApp pay is just another UPI app
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