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I recently took a trip to Shanghai and Kyoto and was blown away by this. In Shanghai even the taxis displayed their QR to accept payments. Kyoto accepted WePay
by inlined 9y ago
I recently took a trip to Shanghai and Kyoto and was blown away by this. In Shanghai even the taxis displayed their QR to accept payments. Kyoto accepted WePay and AliPay; the latter was most impressive because I was told AliPay requires the Chinese equivalent of a SSN
- rahimnathwani 9y agoAlipay overseas (e.g. in Kyoto) only works for Chinese citizens. Anecdote: I tried to pay with Alipay in a Uniqlo store on my last trip to Japan. The payment failed, so I paid by card instead. A minute later I received an SMS from Alipay telling me it was because international payments are only available to Chinese ID card holders.