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Either Alipay or WechatPay, most of the time. Cash is allowed as well.
by showbufire 7y ago
Either Alipay or WechatPay, most of the time. Cash is allowed as well.
- peterburkimsher 7y agoCould you suggest how to use Alipay or WechatPay as a foreigner without a local bank account? Things like city bikes are great and very convenient. In Kaohsiung it used docking stations and a metro card. From what I hear, in China they are dockless, and use mobile apps (which means an expensive roaming data plan) and Chinese payments. These may be convenient for locals, but very user-unfriendly to foreigners. Locals probably have their routine figured out, whereas foreigners are probably going to visit new places, and will therefore use bicycles more.
- NamTaf 7y agoI was able to link my foreign amex to wechatpay a year or two ago. I couldn't deposit money into it, but it let me at least open a wechatpay wallet. Then I could use red envelopes from acquaintances and give them the cash equivalent. This may not work for more than street-food-level expenses though.
- atr_gz 7y agoAlipay just started allowing foreign credit cards! Wechat will probably follow suit soon, if they haven't already. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3036457/foreign-travelers-can-now-use-alipay-without-chinese-bank-account https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3036457/foreign-t...
- chenzhekl 7y agoAlipay now has a service called TourPass, which is basically a prepaid card dedicated for people coming from outside China.
- kuschku 7y agoAlipay actually has expanded across the world - you can register an account with a normal EU credit card or bank account, and even pay with AliPay at many stores in Europe (even in cash-loving Germany DM is accepting it)
- ajdlinux 7y agoWhen I was there last year, many vendors outright refused cash. Perhaps it would have been different if I were looking actually serious about buying in quantity.