ã€Global Network Technology Report】 Yesterday afternoon, WeChat paid the first open app of WeChat payment in Tokyo, Japan, and launched an open new Wechat overseas payment platform to reduce the access threshold for overseas merchants, increase access efficiency, and make information transparent.
It is reported that the number of Chinese tourists traveling to Japan in 2016 exceeded 6.37 million, accounting for a quarter of the total number of foreign tourists in Japan. The huge tourist travel market has prompted more and more Japanese merchants to access WeChat. At present, Japanese merchants that support WeChat payment include Japan's Narita, Haneda, Kansai International Airport, Japan's Takashimaya Department Store and so on.
According to official WeChat payment data, Japan’s peak daily transaction volume in June was 40 times the peak in January. During the six months, the number of merchants that Japan’s access to WeChat paid rose more than 6 times, covering all aspects of food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, etc.; Japan’s WeChat in June. The number of payments increased 16 times from January this year.
The official pointed out that in the future, overseas merchants and service providers will only need to submit their application materials via online self-help - receiving account mail - online signing, and the application will be completed in three steps, which will result in manual docking and inefficiency.
In addition to launching a brand new overseas open platform, the WeChat payment team has also released the "WE Plan" cross-border payment product intelligence program, which increases the number of overseas merchants in terms of application opening, product opening, material support, marketing support, and technical support. The support of the service providers will better enable Chinese outbound tourists to enjoy the same "no cash" experience as at home.
It is noteworthy that, yesterday, Japan’s major supermarket chain Don Quijote officially launched the WeChat payment flagship store in Tokyo and Osaka, which is WeChat’s 100th Wechat payment flagship store in the world. It is understood that Don Quijote has already accessed WeChat in 37 stores in Japan including Shibuya and Shinjuku.
Haneda Fujiyaki, executive director of Haneda Airport, said at the conference: “The import rate of Haneda Airport’s duty-free shop WeChat has reached 75%. In the future, Haneda Airport will use the ability to pay by Wechat, WeChat public account, and card coupons to bring the Airport to the airport. Chinese tourists shopping in physical stores will be guided to the public number, and will use the public number as a starting point to bring more information and services to Chinese tourists. After returning home, Chinese tourists can still use the public number to understand information and purchase goods to achieve the airport public number and entity. Online and offline conversion of stores."
It is reported that at present, the number of concurrent active users of WeChat and WeChat reaches 938 million. WeChat Payment has landed in more than 13 overseas countries and regions, covering more than 130,000 overseas businesses in the world and supporting 10 foreign currencies (GBP, HKD, USD, The yen, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, euro, New Zealand dollar, Korean won and Thai baht are settled directly.