Barcode Pay, Alipay’s New Mobile Payment Solution
By end of December 2010, the payment volume using Alipay per day has exceeded rmb2.5 billion. The number of daily transactions on Alipay reached 8.5 million and 500k transactions were completed on mobile per day. Alipay’s mobile app becomes one of must-have ones for Chinese and has been installed on over 10millions handsets.There is no reason why Alipay should not go mobile.
eBay just acquired mobile payments provider Zong for $240 million in cash, which basically again proves one thing, as the CEO of Zong said,
Most of e-commerce will shortly become m-commerce.
2010年12月末までに、アリペイを使用した一日あたりの支払い額は25億人民元を超えた。アリペイにおける一日の取引数は850万件に達し、一日あたり50万件の取引がモバイルで行われた。アリペイのモバイルアプリは中国人が持つべきアプリの一つとなり、1000万以上の携帯電話にインストールされた。アリペイがモバイル分野へ進出すべきでない理由は何一つない。
eBayはモバイルの支払いを提供するZongを2億4000万ドルで獲得し、それはすなわち、次のことを証明することになるとZongのCEOは語った。
ほとんどのeコマースはもうすぐmコマースになるだろう。
As the counterpart of eBay in China, Alipay is catching up with this trend. Early this month, it reveal its own mobile payment solution called Barcode Pay. Alipay has around 550 millions registered users (by end of 2010) and people are get used to pay online using Alipay which is indeed convenient. But how to get consumer to pay when they are on mobile, which is what Barcode Pay mobile payment solution is trying to solve. Once you logon alipay on the mobile app, you can see a unique barcode.
Just present it to the merchant and get it scanned, you will see a pop-up message on your phone asking you to confirm the payment. The money will be charged directly from your Alipay account. See the following illustrations.
Alipay wants to sell this Barcode Pay solution to cafe, bar, gas station, super market and restaurant etc. Alipay’s official blog also said the company is working on other mobile solution for non-smartphone, web-cam and NFC devices.
