WhatsApp is going to introduce a new shopping experience with JeoMart. The service will allow users to shop from JioMart right within their WhatsApp chat.
WhatsApp has announced to launch shopping experience on WhatsApp for the first time. Consumers can browser through JioMart’s entire grocery catalog right within their WhatsApp chat. In addition to adding items directly into your cart, users can also make payments using their Jio Money wallet or via their bank account via Paytm Payments Bank.
It is now the world’s first end-to-end shopping experience on a popular messaging platform. WhatsApp users in India will now be able to browse JioMart’s entire grocery catalog on the app, add items to the cart and make payments without having to leave WhatsApp.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg said in a statement:
Excited to launch our partnership with JioMart in India. This is our first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp — people can now buy groceries from JioMart right in a chat. Business messaging is an area with real momentum and chat-based experiences like this will be the go-to way people and businesses communicate in the years to come
JioMart is an Indian e-commerce company with $221 billion Indian conglomerate, JioMart has positioned itself as a direct rival to Amazon and Flipkart in India.