Mobile Payments in China - A Documentary

This is a documentary I made going over mobile payments in China, how they work and what is different compared to America.
NOTE (January 22nd, 2019): Target now does accept Apple Pay and Google Pay
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[@paulac.6349]

Great documentary, thanks for clarifying how the mobile payments work there. It’s crazy how things change fast in China, five years ago mobile payments were not even close to be what it is today. Great to have someone share this type of information

[@TylerCallahan95]

Thanks!

[@integr8nfp423]

Appreciate the clip, thank you

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

As of now in 2020, from what I heard, both WeChat and AliPay has become unreliable and not very user-friendly to people outside China and foreigners.
WeChat now is overly complicated to register and login, and you need another WeChat user to finish the registration.
English in AliPay is a hit and miss. Not everything in AliPay is fully translated into English or any language except Chinese, making it difficult to use due to the language barrier. Not only that, from what I heard, to use AliPay, you need a Chinese bank account. Non-Chinese bank accounts won't work on AliPay.

[@dr.tarandeepsingh]

We do need chinese account but very convenient when you need to stay for a long time...

[@usmanwijanarto8608]

thank you for explanation ..
great , and clear ones ..
best regard

[@alicezhang4349]

Thanks my loves for sharing and liking this video💕💕

[@TylerCallahan95]

Thank you Alice and everyone that has watched the documentary so far. Really appreciate everyone enjoying it.

[@alicezhang4349]

OMG you replied!!!!!!! I love youuuu

[@paulianacaetano1]

Hi Tyler! First of all, thanks for sharing!! Please, answer me a question? For me foreign tourist buy on AliPay or WeChat, is really necessary get a chinese bank account? There is a other way for purchase from outside China?

[@axxelcinematic3192]

Pauliana Caetano I guess u can't do that as a tourist cuz thy need the residency paper to open a bank account

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

@@axxelcinematic3192 Crap. 😓

[@magnushodge9456]

Expeditetools,com helped me financially .They got a transfer of $29,000 added to my account .

[@ChristopherBrown-bf9ip]

Realexpeditetools,com helped me financially .All thanks to em i received a transfer of $30,000 .

[@joeyl.7088]

why is the scenary from HK continuously being used in the background?.. not politically related but just wondering since their main source of cahsless payment is via octupus or payme

[@MahdiKnicks]

What happens when a Chinese person's phone gets stolen, do they die?

[@lxynb666]

you can go to the bank to froze your cards,then the police will help you catch the theft

[@chenecho3252]

i am so proud of china ，it very convient，i love china

[@teetcl9319]

😂😂😂😂

[@josephinealquinto2653]

What about those people from the mountain in China or those that are really poor. Do they also have a bank account and a cellfone?

[@TylerCallahan95]

You bring up a good point. For those areas, cash would still be used in the majority of transactions

[@hujianwz1976]

last year , I travel west part of sicuan province where is very poor , 4G still work， of course, wechat pay Alipay working . China is powerful now.

[@lungtsui7647]

Josephine Alquinto Almost all Chinese have mobile phones, and mobile phone signals cover all parts of China，even in the mountains, mobile phones can be used normally.

[@lxynb666]

I can tell you the truth
In China , the internet is everywhere, even at the mountain.

[@lxynb666]

Even beggars in China ask you to pay with qr code

[@joelkevin320]

Do this kind of payment always need internet connection ?

[@TylerCallahan95]

They usually do yes

[@josephinealquinto2653]

How can a tourist buy things in a
Cashless city as Shenzhen?

[@TylerCallahan95]

Well up until last year, it was easy for a tourist to sigh up for WeChat pay for example and accept money from friends to fill up their account, allowing them to use the payment system no problem. However, since last year laws have gotten tighter and it has been restricted to needing a Chinese card to accept money. This has really cut off tourists from using these so as of now for tourists, the main way to pay is back to using cash.

[@magnushodge9456]

I got help from expeditetools,com financially .They sent me a transfer of $29,000 just yesterday .

[@danieledistioromanmendoza47]

Yes visiting china for buy tax