Since its launch back in September last year, Google Tez, the company’s UPI-based payments app for India, has seen tremendous growth. As of December last year, Google reported that the app was adopted by over 12 million users and had processed approximately 140 million transactions. The company also introduced new features for the app, including support for utility bill payments, to further increase adoption.
As of now, the feature isn’t available to all Tez users and is only accessible if both the sender and the receiver are using the latest version of Tez. In order to start a chat, the Tez app now has a dedicated chat button which located next to the ‘Pay’ and ‘Request’ buttons. Additionally, users will be allowed to block a particular contact or disable a thread, if need be.
