This year, electricity companies have lost money in the area of payments, giving consumers more choice. The electric dealer not only eliminates the regional estrangement, even goes into the line, lets the consumer when buys the breakfast, sits the rent to be able to enjoy the electronic payment convenience.
Application one: The taxi pays the treasure knot money
As early as a few months ago, many of the "trend of the cab" began to use micro-letter chat showmanship. In the future, the taxi built-in WiFi, pay PO checkout and other more trendy way of riding experience or will be landing in Beijing.
Alipay company recently issued a driver collection of two-dimensional code, Hangzhou and other taxi passengers only use mobile phone client to take the two-dimensional code, you can enter the amount to complete payment Alipay. According to the introduction, the payment treasure knot way can avoid because the passenger forgets to carry the wallet, does not have the change and so on causes the knot difficulty. Although this new style of knot is not yet extended to Beijing, but according to reporters understand that the way such as "pilot" success, is expected to promote in many cities nationwide.
A Beijing driver teacher told reporters, although Beijing Taxi also opened a bus card to pay the bill, but due to cumbersome procedures, long account, many drivers are unwilling to accept passengers to pay by credit card. "But the payment of Alipay is immediately to the account, and can be directly mentioned, drivers will also have a high enthusiasm." ”
In addition to knot taxis, Alipay is also promoting more online small micro-merchant payment business. Some people in the industry said that the future, including breakfast shop, newspapers and kiosks, small food and beverage stores and other small micro-businesses may become the target of Alipay merchants. This on the one hand depends on the convenience of Alipay in the small collection, on the other hand also avoided large and medium-sized enterprises, and the formation of a dislocation of the bank management.
Application two: Overseas website Direct Shopping
While Alipay was busy with the layout line, Tencent's payment tool, Tenpay, announced a partnership with American Express to launch an international account.
According to the introduction, the user opened the account will be able to achieve cross-border renminbi settlement. This means that Chinese consumers, after opening Tenpay American Express International account, can directly online from the major U.S. shopping malls, online brand stores shopping, not only do not need a U.S. address, but also to achieve renminbi settlement, payment process with the domestic payment is as simple as.
The first commercial outlets to open the service include Accor hotels, Beautyexpert, Bloomingdale, Apple's App Store and other popular sites. The types of products cover popular apparel, retail stores, electronic products, skin makeup, mother and child toys, air travel hotels and so on. After the user orders, American Express's "Overseas direct purchase" platform will designate a United States transshipment address for the user, after the user completes the Cross-border network purchase, the commodity will transfer from the overseas transshipment address to the domestic designated receiving address.
Some consumers believe that this will not only become the "sea Amoy clan" of the Gospel, but also let Tenpay narrow and Alipay in the overseas web site gap. According to the reporter understands, Alipay also with many Chinese Hong Kong, Macao and Overseas shopping website has reached the cooperation, but did not take the cooperation with the overseas company the way "the packing" access website platform.
Application three: Wedding to send red envelopes
Before many media have reported, parents in order to save the handling fee, with Alipay to children to transfer living expenses. Now, more alternative payment uses were born with Alipay to send wedding envelopes.
The wedding will be held early next month, Mr. Cao told reporters that the wedding is still in preparation, he received a number of "hair small" to the "virtual red envelopes." "Yesterday, the phone prompted So-and-so to me launched an instant to the account of the transaction, but also thought it was someone transfer the wrong account, hurriedly surf the internet to see a glance, the result is my hometown of good friends to give me a gift. The message on the transfer page also said "I wish Cao Go and sister-in-law married happy Forever knot concentric." ”
Mr. Cao said that his friend, because of his work, could not come to Beijing to attend his wedding, so he turned to the blessing with Alipay. And for such a blessing way, some people think that both convenient and not like bank transfer as deliberate, commercial, but a sense of humor and cordial. But others think it is not worth advocating. "In the wedding to send red envelopes Fortunately, if doctors, public servants use this to take bribes, supervision is afraid of trouble again." ”
Commercial newspaper reporter Chong Xiao Meng