Rakuten Viber, one of the leaders in private and secure communication via messaging and voice calls, announces that the payment feature via Viber will officially be available to all users in Croatia in the latest version of the application. With this new payment function, the platform continues its journey towards achieving super-app status by providing fast and free real-time money transfers between user accounts.
The service arrives in Croatia after the successful implementation of payment solutions in seven European countries: Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Estonia, enabling users to make instant and free international transactions between these countries, with plans to expand to more countries and currencies in the future.
Users in Croatia can easily and securely request and send money to each other by setting up a digital wallet. Mobile wallets can generally be created in less than a minute through a simple registration that requires basic user information. This registration allows transactions up to 120 EUR, but with additional verification, users can send up to 4,500 EUR. A user utilizing the payment feature can also send money from their wallet to another account, even if the recipient does not yet have a Viber wallet. All these options will be available to Viber users in Croatia.
To provide licensed payment services in the first eight markets, Viber has partnered with Rapyd, a global fintech services company. Rapyd integrates its licensed payment processing services directly into the Viber application to enable in-app payments. Viber users can access various additional financial services, including:
