{"id":269267,"date":"2018-07-23T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269267"},"modified":"2018-07-23T08:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:14:03","slug":"snapchat-to-shut-down-payment-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/269267-snapchat-to-shut-down-payment-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat to shut down payment service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat will shut down its Snapcash peer-to-peer payment service, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/22\/snapcashing-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed to TechCrunch that its payment platform would shut down on 30 August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Snapcash was built in partnership with Square and competes with other payment applications such as PayPal, Venmo, and Square Cash.<\/p>\n<p>Snap said Snapcash users would soon be notified of the service&#8217;s impending shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Snapcash was our first product created in partnership with another company &#8211; Square,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re thankful for all the Snapchatters who used Snapcash for the last four years and for Square\u2019s partnership!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat has been exploring various options to boost its revenue growth, including a new\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/267721-snapchat-working-on-visual-search-feature-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">camera search feature<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/267721-snapchat-working-on-visual-search-feature-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Snapchat working on visual search feature \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat will shut down its Snapcash peer-to-peer payment service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[52597,169,52595,22637],"class_list":["post-269267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-payment-app","tag-paypal","tag-snapcash","tag-snapchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269275,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269267\/revisions\/269275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}