Alipay And Sasa Cooperate To Open "Future Store"

In August 28th,

Sasa's international "future store" was launched in Hongkong.

The "future store" brings together new cool payment methods such as voice payment and face recognition, triggering a long queue of Hongkong residents and tourists.

Alipay's global speed up overseas access to stores has exceeded 30 thousand

As early as 2007, Alipay began to try cross-border payment business.

At that time, the main purpose was to provide cross border collection services for customers, so that users could use Alipay to use Renminbi.

Overseas website products.

Over the next few years, Alipay's cross-border payment business has developed rapidly, covering more than 600 businesses in 32 countries and regions, supporting twelve overseas currencies, including Sterling, Hong Kong dollars and US dollars.

Six years later, Alipay set up an international business division, providing users with "sea rush" payment services from the past to tax refund, O2O, pportation cards, international remittance and other fields.

Up to now, Alipay has provided cross-border payment services for 2000 overseas businesses covering more than 40 countries and regions overseas, and supports 14 currencies settlement.

Covering e-commerce sites include iHerb, MY BAG, Japan Lotte and so on, as well as Singapore Airlines such pport travel service providers.

On overseas tax rebate services, Alipay has supported online tax refund services in eight countries including France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Holland and South Korea.

Alipay is accelerating the development of mobile payment based technologies to the world stage.

In August this year, all the stores of Sasa international in Hongkong have been fully connected to Alipay. As with offline stores in mainland China, customers can quickly settle accounts at any shop in Hongkong SaSa, as long as they show Alipay payment code.

Lian Shang network reporter found that in Hongkong SaSa store, Alipay payment billboards are placed on multiple shelves and cash registers. When customers check out, cashiers will ask if there is Alipay.

In order to better promote cooperation between the two sides, all SaSa stores in Hongkong launched a Alipay payment "50 full reduction of 15" preferential activities.

From 28 to 29, at the gold Plaza store in Tongluowan, you can get two tickets and 50 percent off coupons if you show pink or blue items to the shop assistants. The maximum payment of Alipay can be reduced by RMB 150 yuan (RMB).

In addition, the store has launched a Alipay user's value of 1500 yuan (HK $1 yuan) and 28 special items.

"Future store" is the further exploration of Sasa international and Alipay on the basis of mobile payment technology. This is also a new business model of Hongkong retail joint Alipay's first trial.

In the "future store", Hongkong citizens and tourists can experience new and cool payment technologies such as acoustic payment for vending machines and face recognition.

As Asia's largest cosmetics chain, Sasa has always been the "golden signboard" of Hongkong's tourism retail industry.

Every year, a large number of mainland consumers go shopping in Hongkong, Sasa.

Sasa said that Alipay is the most familiar and reliant mobile payment method for mainland tourists. Alipay payment is not only convenient and quick, but also can solve the trouble of exchanging foreign currencies.

In addition, mobile payment is becoming the trend of global consumption. Through Alipay, Sasa hopes to provide all customers with more convenient and interesting payment experience.