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Is it possible to link to China e-payment services to YouTrip?

Will YouTrip consider getting linked to other payment platforms in China, like Alipay, WeChat Pay or Unionpay? It will be super useful for travellers to China.

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Kelly Trinh

06 Nov 2019

Backoffice technical at financial services firm

Update: looks like Alibaba already launching their own thing...

https://amp.scmp.com/business/article/3036366/a...

Previous comments here:

Alipay / Wechat pay looks very unlikely since their the add to Alibaba/Tencent would be to keep users in their eco-system and so linking up with YouTrip or other outsiders is not in their interest.

Unionpay is card scheme like Visa/MC - since they are competitors, it would be amazing to see one card that supports both Unionpay and Youtrip's current partner Mastercard.

In a broader sense - the China domestic payments market is colossal and Unionpay grabbed the top spot in global cards market from Visa in 2016, so linking with them is the envy/dream of all payment companies. Any potential company is going to need to pay a high price to get any partnership agreement with Unionpay - would be great to see it happening here first in SG/YT but seems unlikely to me.

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