days ago, Alipay announced the introduction of Business-to-government (travel service to the Enterprise) travel payment solution, through the establishment of an open credit payment system to solve the Enterprise Travel Service Fund Zhanya cycle too long, enhance the liquidity of corporate travel service providers, and help enterprises save business travel costs.
The same day, China Aluminum (601600, shares bar) and the world one, Air China, Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, HNA signed a cooperation agreement, Alipay for the Chinese aluminum enterprise travel projects to provide payment service system. Alipay is the domestic air travel industry's largest online payment service provider, its products and services have covered the aviation, tourism business process, the introduction of the Business-to-government Travel payment scheme, marking the beginning of the full force of Alipay pay the travel service market.
The introduction of Alipay business-to-government travel Payment Solution resolves the problem of settlement cycle conflict. "A senior industry insider in Hangzhou said. It is learned that Alipay business-to-government travel payment Scheme has introduced an open credit payment model, when the enterprise to travel service providers to purchase air tickets, Alipay introduced open funds for the enterprise to travel service providers advance ticket payments, enterprises as long as the deadline to log in to pay Alipay, you can complete the travel settlement. The whole mode, not only meet the enterprise's regular financial settlement needs, but also reduce the travel service funds to advance the pressure, so that travel service providers can devote more energy to customer service, to help enterprises travel costs "throttling".
In fact, as the economic uncertainty increases, the demand for travel costs is becoming more and more urgent in recent years, and many companies want to optimize travel costs to adapt to the changing economic situation. According to statistics, Business Travel management optimization, travel costs average savings 15%~20%. Take the airline ticket as an example, the enterprise uses the standard travel management, the employee's average ticket booking price can from 85 percent to 90 percent, reduces to 75 percent to 80 percent. That is to say, only airfare travel, the enterprise can save 10% travel cost in one year.
"We want to pay for a comprehensive financial services solution by concentrating on business-to-government travel to create more travel and cost-saving opportunities for businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency," he said. "Alipay vice President Genming said.