Facebook enhances payments service

Facebook has introduced new enhancements to its payments service designed to improve its functionality.


Facebook has introduced new enhancements to its payments service designed to improve its functionality.

The social network has offered a person-to-person payments service within its Messenger app for nearly two years, the Drum reports.

However, it has until now lacked a feature that enables financial transactions involving more than two people to be resolved easily.

With the added functionality, each participant in a chat log can either contribute a select sum, or bills can be divided equally between all those taking part in a conversation.

Commenting on the changes, product manager for consumer payments Partha Sundaram said: "It's simple, fast and secure.

"Whether you're splitting a restaurant bill or chipping in for a group gift, all you need to do is go to a new or existing Messenger group to get started."

Users can activate the payments service simply by clicking on the dollar logo included in the app.

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