By testing its split payments feature in Facebook Messenger, Meta further enmeshes its app in consumers’ social and financial lives. Two years ago, the company integrated Facebook Pay across Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Earlier this year, the company began testing a QR code-based peer-to-peer payment channel via Facebook Pay so users can send money to each other via Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“If you’ve struggled with dividing up (and getting paid back for) group dinners, shared household expenses or even the monthly rent, it’s about to get easier,” the company said in its announcement.
