Updates are coming

Telegram upcoming features on Durov's Instagram Stories

\\\ Today's Telegram update is featuring other two major features - Video Messages, Telescope and Instant Views Platform \\\

Payments for Bots

Imagine a world where you can order a pizza, pay for pair of shoes, hire a car or refill your metrocard — all of it just by tapping a few buttons on Telegram.

To make this possible, today we are launching Bot Payments - a way for bots to accept payments from their users worldwide.

(VIDEO DEMO)

If you Telegram v.XX (or newer) installed, don't be surprised if a bot adds a Pay button to something you can order from it. Once you tap Pay, you'll be asked to fill in the credit card information (only once) and confirm the payment. After that, ordering stuff from bots will take only two taps!

Telegram is an open platform, so bot developers can implement the necessary APIs and accept payments from users starting right now, without lenghty confirmations. If you're a bot developer, check out the docs!

(DOG SOMEWHERE ON THE RIGHT)

Currently most of the payments are handled via Stripe, but Bot Payments are a platform for payment providers all over the world. If you're a payment provider (especially in a developing country), please check outs the docs (can't read that)

When accepting a payment from a user, Bot developer can choose between all available payments providers, selecting the one already used by the payer or the one with the lowest commission.

Each payment goes directly from the user to the bot developer. Telegram does not take any commission from the payments and doesn't profit from these transactions. We also don't see or store the credit card data. This makes it impossible for Telegram to handle complaints or cashbacks - so the disputed payments will be dealt by the bot developers, the payment providers and the banks.

As for us, we'll do what every sheriff has to do: kill the bad bots and award the good ones with a badge. We're sure there'll be plenty of good ones.

Happy shopping! Telegram Team

Credit: Merl