{"id":454102,"date":"2020-12-02T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=454102"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:07:29","slug":"telkom-launches-whatsapp-payment-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/454102\/telkom-launches-whatsapp-payment-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom launches WhatsApp payment service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.telkom.co.za\/today\/shop\/plan\/telkom-pay-digital-wallet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Telkom Pay<\/strong><\/a>, which is its digital wallet service that runs through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Pay allows customers to send money to anyone with a cellphone number and can be accessed without any other app or software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are launching financial services solutions that cater to everyone and that are easy to access through one\u2019s phone, 24\/7, at an affordable price for consumers and businesses,\u201d said Telkom managing executive for financial services Sibusiso Ngwenya.<\/p>\n<p>To use the service, users must simply add Telkom Pay on WhatsApp using 068 483 5566.<\/p>\n<p>They will then be able to message this contact and follow the prompts to enable Telkom Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Once registered, users can pay other South Africans using their cellphone number, or they can request payment by sending a \u201cPlease Pay Me\u201d to other users.<\/p>\n<p>QR Code payments are also supported, and\u00a0Telkom said customers will be able to pay their airtime, data, and electricity bills using the service.<\/p>\n<p>Users can add funds to their Telkom Pay Digital Wallet via EFT, Nedbank ATM, or at a Pick n Pay store, while withdrawals are possible from Nedbank ATMs and Pick n Pay.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said that users across all mobile networks can use the platform \u2013 they do not have to be subscribed to Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Pay is compliant with the latest security standards and every registered user is required to verify their account and ID number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour information is private \u2013 Telkom Pay is fully Data Protection compliant,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/453224\/huawei-to-launch-its-mobile-payment-service-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huawei to launch its mobile payment service in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has launched Telkom Pay, which is its digital wallet service that runs through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":409605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,65],"class_list":["post-454102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454102","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=454102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454104,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454102\/revisions\/454104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}