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Pong Cashsoon

A balance pong spends for you with your yes: pay anywhere online, send to friends, split bills, and book for the group.

Coming soon

Pong Cash isn't open yet. It's being tested with a small group and will reach more accounts over time. Until it's on for your account, pong won't offer to pay or send money. It gets you to the total and hands it back.

Pong Cash is a balance in your pong that it can spend for you, always with your yes. It pays at a store's own checkout the way a card would, moves money between friends' pongs, and turns "I'll pay you back" into one text.

9:41
pong

Today 7:48 PM

👀
send maya $24 for the movie tickets
sent maya $24
A pong receipt card: SENT CA$24.00 to Maya
+iMessage
Maya's receipt card: RECEIVED CA$24.00 from Sam
What the other side gets
Pay a friend. Every payment comes with a receipt card in the chat.

How it works#

  1. 1

    Add money

    pong sends you a link to add Pong Cash by card. Payments are processed by Stripe; pong never sees your card number.

  2. 2

    pong gets to the total

    Shopping, a booking, tickets: pong does the work and stops at the store's final review with the real total.

  3. 3

    You say yes

    pong asks once, with the exact amount and the store. Nothing is charged without that yes.

  4. 4

    pong pays and confirms

    It fills the payment details at the store's checkout, submits once, and reads the store's confirmation. Your balance changes only when the store accepts the charge. You get the order number and a receipt card.

Pay anywhere online#

Pong Cash pays like a card on the store's own checkout page, so it works on almost any site, not just partners. The card details are filled in by reference: pong never sees the digits, and the live view on your dashboard is hidden while it's paying. If your balance is short, pong sends a top-up link and finishes once you've added money.

9:41
pong

Sat 2:10 PM

👀
get me 2 tickets for dune part three tonight around 7, good seats
7:10pm imax, row J seats 11 and 12, dead center. $44.50 with fees at cineplex. pay with pong cash?
yes
done. order 81734520, tickets are in your email
A pong receipt card: PAID CA$44.50 at Cineplex
+iMessage
Buying with a yes.

Pong to pong#

Send Pong Cash to anyone in your crew by text: "send leo $15". Naming the person and the amount is the yes. Money you receive works exactly like money you added.

Split the bill#

Drop a photo of the receipt in the group and say who's in. When you say "I paid, split it", each friend's pong gets a request for their share. Each friend approves their own payment. Nobody is ever charged from someone else's message.

9:41
MLsushi night

Fri 10:22 PM

👀
@pong i paid, split it with leo and maya
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Sam's pong

$126.60 with tip, so $42.20 each. sent leo and maya their share

Leo

@pong pay it

Leo's pong

sent sam $42.20
+iMessage
Split from a photo.

Book for the whole group#

For a group plan, friends' pongs can send you their share first, and then your pong books with everyone's money in one go. The cabin, the concert tickets, the dinner deposit: one person's pong does the booking, and nobody has to chase anyone.

9:41
MLcabin weekend 🌲

Mon 8:15 PM

👀
@pong the cabin is $480 for the 4 of us. collect everyone's share and book it

Sam's pong

asked maya, leo and priya for $120 each. i'll book as soon as it's in

Maya's pong

sent sam $120

Leo's pong

sent sam $120

Priya's pong

sent sam $120

Sam's pong

everyone's in. booked the cabin for oct 24 to 26, $480 paid. confirmation's in sam's email
+iMessage
Everyone chips in, one pong books.

Receipts#

Every send, receive and purchase comes with a receipt card in iMessage and WhatsApp: what happened, how much, who or where, when, and what's left.

Receipt card: SENT CA$24.00 to Maya
Money you sent to a friend's pong
Receipt card: RECEIVED CA$24.00 from Sam
Money a friend's pong sent you
Receipt card: PAID CA$44.50 at Cineplex
A purchase pong made for you

The wallet page#

On accounts with Pong Cash, wallet on the dashboard shows your balance, recent activity and the full history: money added, sent, received and store purchases with their status.

Good to know#

  • Pong Cash is in Canadian dollars. A store that charges in another currency shows that total as it is.
  • It's a prepaid balance for spending through pong. It isn't a bank account and doesn't cash out.
  • A routine or a mail-triggered turn never pays. Paying always comes from a yes in a conversation.
  • A declined payment is reported plainly. pong doesn't retry the same card details.
  • A payment page can't be taken over from the live view.

Something missing or wrong? Tell pong, or email founders@vira-labs.com.