betakit : Shopify now allowing merchants to sell products through Facebook Messenger

Shopify now allowing merchants to sell products through Facebook Messenger

After already launching the ability to communicate with customers through Facebook Messenger, Shopify has followed up with a new merchant system that allows products to be sold directly within Facebook's service.This new integration gives customers a "Shop Now" option when starting a conversation with any Facebook Business Page via Shopify's Messenger Sales section.This launches the store's product page and allows users to browse and purchase items, though transactions are still completed through Shopify's Facebook Messenger checkout portal.

Facebook enables encryption for mobile Messenger app's 900 million users

Facebook this week said the roughly 900 million account holders who use its mobile Messenger app each month can now make their conversations illegible to eavesdroppers after it finished rolling out a feature that uses end-to-end encryption to protect private messages from prying eyes.Less than three months after it began making its "Secret Conversation" function available to select users, a spokesperson for the social network told Wired this week that the feature is now available across the board.The ability to encrypt conversations is present in an updated version of Messenger released for iOS and Android smartphones this week, providing the mobile-minded vast majority of Facebook's billion-plus users with an easy way of protecting their conversations with an additional layer of security.