Friday, May 4, 2018

Instagram will soon let you book restaurant tables and buy movie tickets within the app


Instagram is gearing up to become a major shopping and commerce platform in the near future, with the introduction of support for payments. TechCrunch reports that the company is presently testing a feature to allow some business accounts in the US and the UK to accept payments natively for booking restaurant tables; the same functionality will work for things like appointments at a salon, as well as tickets to events and movie screenings. As for shopping, the app already has ‘shoppable tags‘ on posts: merchants can tag items in pictures with a price and a link that takes you straight…

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