{"id":65664,"date":"2019-11-26T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.online-tech-tips.com\/?p=65664"},"modified":"2025-01-17T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:22:44","slug":"what-is-facebook-pay-and-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.online-tech-tips.com\/what-is-facebook-pay-and-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Facebook Pay and How to Use It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Facebook Pay<\/a> is Facebook\u2019s effort to make moving money online easier and more secure. You can use it as a money sending app<\/a> to split a bill with friends or as a service to order things online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook introduced Facebook Pay on November 12, 2019. There has been a payment platform on Facebook and Messenger since before then, but it\u2019s only now that Facebook has announced plans to bring it to their other apps and websites – WhatsApp and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The new idea with Facebook Pay versus the old way Facebook has allowed online payments, is that you can have the payment method be used across all their apps. After signing up and choosing a payment method, you can easily buy things and exchange money with recipients from any of their apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Facebook Pay Works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Facebook Pay currently runs on Facebook and Messenger, but it\u2019s also coming to Instagram and WhatsApp. It works across all platforms, so you can use it through those websites or through the mobile apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only users in the US can use Facebook Pay at this time, but Facebook is planning on rolling it out to other countries eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Facebook Pay Is For<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Facebook Pay serves two purposes depending on where you\u2019re using it – to pay people and to buy things online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what you can do (eventually, once implemented) with Facebook Pay from each of Facebook\u2019s apps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n