Telegram Is Planning To Roll Out Bot Payments
Telegram Messenger has grown from being a simple cloud based messaging app to become a community of over 100 million apps that send texts, create stickers/themes, build bots for use and also recently make voice calls. There is still so much more that can be done in improving the overall experience and Telegram’s co-founder shared a snippet of an upcoming blogpost that highlights several exciting updates on Telegram Messenger.
As spotted by Vasili Shinkorenko, Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov is planning to release some cool new features that could be rolled out in the future.
Telegram launched the Bot Platform back in 2015 which they went ahead to bolster it with a major 2.0 update in 2016. Since then, we have seen people come up with various bots that we use every day and also led Telegram to launch a gaming platform based on that bot platform.
Pavel Durov shared a preview of a blogpost about an upcoming update on Telegram where it showed that they are probably going to launch Bot Payments in the next update.
“Bot Payments is a way for bots to accept payments from their users worldwide,” Durov said in the shared post. It will be a new platform for payment providers to connect to this platform.
Apparently most of the payments will be handled by Stripe and each payment goes directly from the user to the bot developer. Telegram will not profit from the transactions. Also, they won’t see the credit card data and if there are disputes, this will be dealt directly by bot developers.
Once the system is live, you will fill your credit card information (gladly only once) and confirm the payment.
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