What is Facebook Pay, where is it available, and how does it work?

(Pocket-lint) - Facebook offers a payments system, called Facebook Pay, which lets you nonstop wealth to friends, store for goods, and adjacent donate.

What is Facebook Pay?

Facebook Pay is designed to facilitate payments crossed Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook said it's portion of "ongoing enactment to marque commerce much convenient, accessible, and secure" for its users.

Facebook wage was initially made disposable for fundraisers, person-to-person payments, tickets purchases, in-game purchases, and immoderate purchases from pages and businesses connected Facebook's Marketplace. Now it has been afloat integrated with Instagram and Messenger, successful supported countries, and WhatsApp enactment is starting to rotation retired too.

The service, which is antithetic from Facebook's Calibra and Libra efforts, is "built connected existing fiscal infrastructure and partnerships", according to Facebook. It is utilizing Stripe, PayPal, and different processors to grip payments.

How does Facebook Pay work?

Facebook Pay is designed to beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic possible, truthful getting started doesn't necessitate immoderate further apps, you tin usage Facebook Pay straight successful the app you privation to use.

You tin entree Facebook Pay successful the settings conception of the Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps. Once you person added a outgo method you tin easy nonstop wealth to friends, marque a acquisition oregon donate to a cause.

To entree Facebook Pay connected Facebook

1. Go to Settings past Facebook Pay on the Facebook app oregon website.
2. Add a outgo method.

To entree Facebook Pay connected Instagram

1. Tap your profile icon astatine the bottommost close of your screen
2. Press the more fastener astatine the apical close (three horizontal lines)
3. Select Orders and payments
4. Choose Payment settings
5. Add a outgo method

Facebook said it won't automatically acceptable up Facebook Pay crossed the apps you actively usage unless you take to bash so.

Which outgo methods are supported?

Facebook Pay supports astir debit and recognition cards arsenic good arsenic PayPal, successful supported countries.

Where is Facebook Pay available?

Facebook Pay is disposable successful countries crossed Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North America.

While astir countries person enactment connected the Facebook app, enactment for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are rolling retired gradually.

In the UK, we person entree connected some Facebook and Instagram.

In the United States, Facebook and Messenger are supported.

You tin cheque determination availability here.

Want to cognize more?

For much information, sojourn pay.facebook.com.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 13 November 2019.