{"id":130706,"date":"2016-07-19T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=130706"},"modified":"2016-07-19T22:33:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:33:51","slug":"absa-launches-banking-for-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/130706\/absa-launches-banking-for-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa launches banking for Facebook Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absa is set to launch a world banking first, it said: ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Absa said the \u201cworld-first in banking technology\u201d will allow customers to conduct banking without having to leave their\u00a0\u201cfavourite social media platform\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of the banking service on Facebook Messenger follows soon after the introduction of Absa ChatBanking on Twitter in May this year,\u201d said Absa.<\/p>\n<p>Absa customers will be able to use Facebook Messenger as well as Twitter to conduct the following transactions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the their transactional account balance<\/li>\n<li>Buy airtime or data<\/li>\n<li>Get a mini-statement<\/li>\n<li>Buy prepaid electricity for selected municipalities<\/li>\n<li>Make a payment to existing beneficiaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Absa said accessing ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger is a one-time only process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsa customers who are registered for Absa Online and have access to the Express tab, can register for ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To add a\u00a0Facebook Messenger profile, customers must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logon to Absa Online<\/li>\n<li>From the Express tab in Absa Online click on Settings<\/li>\n<li>Click on Manage ChatBanking<\/li>\n<li>Click on Add Profile and follow the prompts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cOnce you have added your profile via Express on Absa Online and verified your profile by sending a private message to AbsaChatBanking via Facebook Messenger, you need to send a private message saying \u201chi\u201d to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ChatBanking was scheduled to launch on Tuesday (19 July).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Absa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/130550\/absa-launches-new-website-and-banking-app\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Absa launches new online banking site and mobile banking app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/124867\/absa-wants-you-to-do-banking-over-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Absa wants you to do banking on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa is set to launch a world banking first, it said: ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":114730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[29,25,45],"class_list":["post-130706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-absa","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130708,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130706\/revisions\/130708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}