In 2015, Facebook introduced payment transfer among the individual within the messenger. But now this feature is also added to the groups, where in messenger group people can either send funds to a specific individual in the group or everyone. This facility can be availed by clicking $ sign present there.Now Send Payments Through Messenger:Facebook suggested this to be the useful feature for such groups which are running on purchases basis. People would be able to send payments using the payment module of the Facebook.Within your chat you can also request for payments from the other group members. You can request someone for payments by adding a text or note to it. It will indicate, for what reason the payment you are requesting from the individual.Notifications of Group Payments:
If the payment is for the whole group, means if it is divided equally for all the members who are supposed to pay, then there will also be a message which will appear in the chat box notifying who ever has paid.Facebook said that they haven’t launched this payment module to take benefit of it by cutting some percentage. The focus is completely on providing the users a new feature which can benefit them in transferring payments between them.Added Value in Facebook Features:This is a great feature for most of the users who are keen to transfer payments very often. However, this makes Facebook stand even tall among its competitors and is adding too much value to the further fame of Facebook.Rumors About WhatsApp:However, there are also some rumors about the same kind of payment functionality in another app which is now the property of Facebook and that’s WhatsApp. Now let’s see when these rumors turn into a reality.