WhatsApp Business users alert! Important latest features update for you

In good news for those who are using WhatsApp for Business, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced two new features to make it easier for people to know what's available and for entrepreneurs to quickly sell their products on WhatsApp for Business.

According to the company, it is now providing businesses with the ability to create and manage their catalogue from WhatsApp web/desktop rather than just mobile phones. "Since many businesses manage their inventory from a computer, this new option will make it quick and easy to add new items or services so their customers know what's available," WhatsApp was quoted by IANS.

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This will be helpful for businesses with big inventories like a restaurant or clothing store so they can manage their catalog from a bigger screen. Currently, people can browse more than 8 million business catalogs on WhatsApp, including 1 million in India, to find something they might like to buy, according to the report.

The company introduced carts on WhatsApp during the holiday shopping season last year so people could browse a catalog, select multiple products and send the order as one message to the business. Now, it is giving them the option to "hide" specific items from their catalog and easily show them again when they're back in stock or available to customers.

This feature is beginning to roll out to businesses around the world starting today, the IANS reported. According to a recent survey, 76 per cent of adults in India said "I am more likely to do business with/purchase from a company that I can contact via messaging than one that I cannot.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp will reportedly roll out a feature allowing the migration of chat history between iOS and Android. WABetaInfo,  a website that tracks WhatsApp, took to micro-blogging site Twitter to announce that this new WhatsApp feature may arrive soon.