UnionPay Business: Alipay and paid pass split

Tencent Lei Jianping technology reported July 3

On the occasion of the termination of their cooperation, Shanghai UnionPay and Alipay respectively terminated their cooperation and announced that the convenience of payment for their conveniences and the convenience of payment products "universal payment" for water and electricity coal business in Shanghai were in normal operation and completely unaffected.

Official introduction, "universal payment" in the Shanghai region to open convenient payment services include daily utilities payment, credit card repayment, mobile phone recharge, access to localization with other value-added services such as cable payment, broadband payment, auto insurance purchase, Ticket hotel booking, "universal benefits" coupons to download, etc., to meet all types of living users pay and convenient payment needs.

Official pointed out that "universal payment" users in the vicinity of the door of convenience stores, supermarkets, bank offices and other fixed places, the use of "universal payment" POS machines, multimedia kiosks, ATM for convenience payment. Users can log in through the Internet "universal payment" online convenience payment platform, the use of the client, or at home using the phone POS, TV to complete payment requirements.

CUP revealed that it has set up "universal payment" convenient self-service terminals in 260 stores in Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang. It provides users with "universal payment" convenient payment service, allowing users to pay bills at their doorsteps daily. In the near future, CUP will also deploy "universal payment" self-service terminals to nearly 2,000 stores in Iraq's 10 provinces / cities nationwide.

Many organizations pay more attention to water and coal tariffs because service agencies need to invest a lot of manpower, financial platform, content access, research and development of emerging channels, terminal deployment and operation and maintenance, and user marketing.

With the increasing rise of Internet payment and mobile payment, numerous agencies and so on have laid out offline online user traffic entrances. Public utility payment has been paid more and more attention in enhancing user experience and increasing customer stickiness.

Alipay has been in the forefront of the industry such as utilities. However, the announcement of the recent pay-pass announcement said that in order to protect the convenience and safety of the pay-flat platform subscribers, it was decided to terminate the provision of public utility billings business for Alipay.

Commonly known as payment, the frequent occurrence of public utilities bill processing system recently, pay-through EBPP system channel blockage, server downtime and other issues. The investigation is due to Alipay initiated (non-user initiated) a large number of high-frequency billing inquiry.

Alipay responds by saying that cooperation between the two parties has been under way since 2009 and that "a large number of high-frequency bill inquiries" have started since 2011, not a recent adjustment. Such an Internet-based user experience is indeed one to the traditional enterprise's system capabilities Item challenge

Alipay said Alipay Shanghai utilities utilities payment service is still normal, only a few institutions affected users are temporarily unable to use Alipay payment, the company is looking for ways to strive to solve this part of the user's problem as soon as possible.

Analysts pointed out that this time taking advantage of Shanghai paid and Alipay trouble "unpleasant" occasion, CUP emphasizes its normal business operations, mainly to leveraging Alipay's business, better local development in Shanghai.