# Messager

## Overview

**Messager** is Victoi's chat product. It is what happens when a messaging app and a money app are built as one thing instead of glued together: you and the people you talk to share a single thread that holds the words, the calls, the photos, the tickets, the plans, the splits, and the actual money.

Messager is not a payment add-on to a chat app, and not a chat tab on a finance app. It is a place where the people in your life can spend, save, plan, and decide things together — in real time, in any language, with end-to-end encryption.

## Key features

### Chat

- **1:1 and group chats.** Direct conversations and groups of any size.
- **Messages and money side by side.** Send a payment inside the same thread as the conversation — the request, the confirmation, and the chat are one history.
- **Rich messaging.** Reactions, replies, pinned messages, view-once media, voice notes, file sharing.
- **Broadcast lists.** Send to many people at once without creating a group.
- **End-to-end encryption.** Messages and calls are encrypted in transit.

### Calls

- **HD voice and video.** 1:1 and group voice and video calls in high definition.
- **End-to-end encrypted.** Calls are encrypted between participants.
- **Free worldwide.** Calls between Victoi users are free, anywhere in the world.

### Groups

A Victoi group is a chat thread with structure. Beyond the messages and the calls, a group can run:

- **Fundraising campaigns.** Pool money from the group for a specific purpose — a wedding, a funeral, a project, an emergency — with a goal, a deadline, and a transparent ledger.
- **Surveys and polls.** Ask the group a question, see who voted what, and decide.
- **Events.** Create an event with date, location, RSVPs, tickets, and check-in — for a party, a wedding, a launch, a meet-up. Tickets can be sold, free, or invite-only.
- **Group treasury.** Every group can hold a shared treasury — a balance the group owns, that can be contributed to and drawn from under rules the group sets.
- **Jangi inside a group.** Turn a trusted group into a savings circle without leaving the chat.

### Travel inside chat

- **Trip plans.** A travel booking can be linked to a group thread so the itinerary, photos, and cost splits live where the conversation already is.
- **Split bills.** Costs paid from one wallet can be split across the people in the thread.

## How it works

1. **Find or invite.** Start a 1:1 or create a group. Friends already on Victoi appear immediately; those who aren't can be invited.
2. **Talk.** Send messages, voice notes, photos, files. React, reply, pin.
3. **Call.** Tap the call icon for voice; tap again for video. Group calls work the same way for everyone in the thread.
4. **Pay.** Send money from inside the thread — to one person or to many. The payment and the conversation are the same history.
5. **Organise.** Open a fundraiser, a survey, or an event from the group's actions menu. Each lives in the thread; results are visible to the group.
6. **Hold money together.** Enable the group treasury for a shared balance, with rules the group agrees to.

## Use cases

- A close group of five splits dinner: one taps to pay the restaurant card, the bill is dropped into the group chat, and a one-tap split moves the right amount from each person's wallet.
- A family group runs a fundraiser for a relative's medical bills with a goal, a deadline, and updates pinned to the top.
- A wedding party uses an event with RSVPs and ticketing for the reception, group calls to coordinate the rehearsal, and a Jangi to save together toward the cost.
- A founders' group runs a weekly survey on what to ship next, voice-calls in HD on Mondays, and shares a small treasury for joint expenses.
- A travel plan for a friends' weekend lives inside one thread — flight times, hotel address, photos, splits.
- An organiser of a community meet-up sells tickets inside an event, scans guests in with the in-app check-in screen, and runs a virtual room for people joining remotely.

## FAQ

**What's different about Messager compared to a normal chat app?**
Messager carries money. The same thread that holds the conversation holds payments, fundraisers, polls, events, group savings, and a shared treasury. There is no jumping between a chat app and a payments app.

**Are my messages and calls private?**
Yes. Messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted in transit. The conversation is between the participants.

**Can I send money inside a chat?**
Yes. Send to one person in a 1:1, or to several people in a group. Payments appear in the thread alongside the messages.

**What is a group treasury?**
A shared balance the group owns. It can be contributed to by members and drawn from under rules the group agrees to — it is the same idea as a Jangi treasury, available to any group that wants one.

**Can I run polls and events?**
Yes. Surveys (one-question polls and multi-question questionnaires) and events (with RSVPs, tickets, and check-in) can be created from inside a group.

**Can I call people who aren't on Victoi?**
Calls between Victoi users are free worldwide. Non-Victoi users can be invited to join.

**What is an event ticket?**
A pass to an event run inside Messager. Tickets can be free, sold, or invite-only. The organiser can check guests in from the app on the day, and remote guests can join a virtual room from the same event.

**Can I run a Jangi inside a chat?**
Yes. A trusted group can turn itself into a Jangi — the same chat thread becomes the home of the savings circle.

## Related products

- **Money.** Payments inside a chat draw from your wallet; received money lands in your wallet.
- **Jangi.** A group can be a Jangi; every Jangi has a chat thread.
- **Travel.** A trip plan can live inside a group thread, with the itinerary and splits visible to everyone going.
- **Viki.** Ask Viki to draft a message, summarise a long thread, run a survey, start a fundraiser, or set up an event in the group.