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It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html

It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica... And the merchant doesn't know this. Their setup process is typically: Open up WeChat, login, click the plus in the top right corner, pick Money, click receive money... And of course paying and receiving is much easier once everything is setup.

zhte415 9y ago
This is correct. 1. Customer scans QR 2. POS operator hits given this is a realtime hit and noone else is hitting this QR at this time. 3. Customer received bill, hits OK. Confirmation sent to both reatailer and customer at the same time. Customer often shows retailer this has been successful. Receipt printed and handed to customer. 4. Customer walks away happy. The transaction from 1-4 takes less than 2 seconds. Very efficient. The stumbling of a new customer to get their phone out, activate pay, question if any special offers are in offer however drags this out to a vastly greater amount of time than using cash. However, the tech UX is sound. Edit: Live in China. Wish people could use cash as queues are much longer when the 'human factor' is added in/ Perhaps this will fade, but it has already been a few years and sees no fading as retailers add discounts, coupons, to the payment, which leads customers to click around their phone rather than being prepared in advance with discount coupons and cash.
- ksec 9y ago
  One thing I forgot to mention, Receipt! For whatever reason Apple Pay or Visa / Master still hasn't figure this out. WePay you get Receipt All in one. And this purchasing Data should live inside my phone, not in the cloud. and the data could be used as personal Financial management. Realistically Apple should be the one doing this, but pretty much like All of their services, they are half hearted and they dont give a damn. P.S - I wonder if QR Code can be made in Circle shape rather then Rectangular.
rsync 9y ago
"It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica..." http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica... OK, but presumably a very long URL with a lot of hasing/coding in the URL that not only describes the transaction but secures it, correct ? QR Codes are an open-standard - they are not something that wechat made up - so could you use some other mechanism to transmit that URL ? Could I email the very same URL and expect it to work ?

zhte415 9y ago

This is correct. 1. Customer scans QR 2. POS operator hits given this is a realtime hit and noone else is hitting this QR at this time. 3. Customer received bill, hits OK. Confirmation sent to both reatailer and customer at the same time. Customer often shows retailer this has been successful. Receipt printed and handed to customer. 4. Customer walks away happy. The transaction from 1-4 takes less than 2 seconds. Very efficient. The stumbling of a new customer to get their phone out, activate pay, question if any special offers are in offer however drags this out to a vastly greater amount of time than using cash. However, the tech UX is sound. Edit: Live in China. Wish people could use cash as queues are much longer when the 'human factor' is added in/ Perhaps this will fade, but it has already been a few years and sees no fading as retailers add discounts, coupons, to the payment, which leads customers to click around their phone rather than being prepared in advance with discount coupons and cash.

ksec 9y ago
One thing I forgot to mention, Receipt! For whatever reason Apple Pay or Visa / Master still hasn't figure this out. WePay you get Receipt All in one. And this purchasing Data should live inside my phone, not in the cloud. and the data could be used as personal Financial management. Realistically Apple should be the one doing this, but pretty much like All of their services, they are half hearted and they dont give a damn. P.S - I wonder if QR Code can be made in Circle shape rather then Rectangular.

rsync 9y ago

"It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica..." http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica... OK, but presumably a very long URL with a lot of hasing/coding in the URL that not only describes the transaction but secures it, correct ? QR Codes are an open-standard - they are not something that wechat made up - so could you use some other mechanism to transmit that URL ? Could I email the very same URL and expect it to work ?