The feature was previously available through bots, which was a bit clunky.

With Payments 2.0, Telegram allows merchants to accept payments using several approved gateways - including highly popular Stripe - effectively covering over 200 jurisdictions around the world (i.e. Just yesterday (April 28), the company dropped another major update which shows the desire to move deeper into e-commerce and digital payments, which may eventually produce significant revenue. Slowly but surely, it is morphing into the world’s mega app - likely in part modelled on the success of China’s WeChat - and the first one that is neither chained by Beijing’s regulation nor Silicon Valley’s ideological bend.įar from being just a messaging app, Telegram is gradually moving into other areas of life, and it clearly has the ambition to become the default platform for many, or all, individual and professional needs. The rise of Telegram is one of the most exciting things in the mobile app environment in years.

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