With Buyable Pins, Pinterest lets you buy stuff right in the app

Pinterest on Tuesday officially announced Buyable Pins, a button rolling out to iOS later this month — followed by Android and web later this year — that lets users buy products displayed on the social network’s mobile app

“The thing users have been asking us for a while is the ability to buy,” explained Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann at a company event held at Pinterest’s San Francisco headquarters on Tuesday

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Buyable Pins will be easy to pick out in feeds and searches, since each one also brandishes a blue price tag. Tapping a Buyable Pin brings you to another screen with a “Buy It” button alongside the “Pin It” button. Selecting “Buy It” brings you to an order screen where users can pay via credit card or Apple Pay Read more…

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