internet giants "tear down walls" again: taobao will connect to wechat pay, alipay and meituan
2024-09-05
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original title: taobao will connect to wechat pay, alipay and meituan (lead)
internet giants "tear down walls" again (theme)
beijing daily (reporter sun qiru) the era of "building high walls" between internet giants is gradually fading away. yesterday, taobao announced that it would connect to wechat pay. on the same day, alipay "joined hands" with meituan, and meituan takeaway and meituan hotel officially entered alipay.
taobao and tmall announced yesterday that in order to improve the shopping experience of consumers, taobao plans to add wechat payment capabilities and adjust the platform rules after the opinion collection is completed. this adjustment will cover all taobao and tmall merchants. the relevant person in charge said that the platform adheres to the concept of open cooperation and actively explores interoperability and cooperation with various platforms to continuously improve the shopping experience of consumers and make their shopping more convenient, enjoyable and efficient.
the reporter found through actual testing that wechat payment option has been added as a payment method in the taobao special price app.
yesterday, alipay's official weibo account released a poster of its cooperation with meituan takeaway and meituan hotel. many consumers have discovered that the mini-programs for meituan's two core businesses, takeaway and hotel, have been launched on alipay. previously, the only way to order takeaways on alipay was to use ele.me, and if you wanted to use alipay to pay when placing an order with meituan, you had to click one more step than other payment methods. so far, the alipay mini-programs for meituan's six core businesses, "meituan takeaway", "meituan buy medicine", "meituan power bank", "meituan cycling", "meituan running errands", and "meituan hotel", have all been launched.
"not connected" was once a chronic problem in the domestic internet industry. take alibaba and tencent, the two giants behind taobao and wechat, for example. as the two giants in china's internet industry, the payment systems of alibaba and tencent have not been fully connected. when shopping on taobao, users tend to choose alipay to pay, while in the wechat ecosystem, they mainly use wechat pay. this has limited user choices to a certain extent and affected user experience.
interoperability is accelerating in all fields. in may this year, jd finance, the wallets of the three major telecom operators and other apps announced that they would realize commercial payment code interconnection with wechat pay, providing users with more payment options without adding code cards or changing the payment function of the platform.
internet analyst ding dao shi believes that the "removal of walls" and interconnection within the industry are in line with the direction of national policy guidance and also bring consumers a real sense of gain. he believes that in recent years, the strategic cooperation between douyin and ele.me, the cooperation between kuaishou and meituan, and the fact that tencent video can search for youku content all show that the "removal of walls" in the internet industry is showing a trend of continuous acceleration. from the perspective of enterprises, the giants have moved from disputes to cooperation, breaking through one "blocking point" after another, resulting in lower customer acquisition costs. from the perspective of consumers, the cost reduction brought about by the reduction of confrontation between platforms allows consumers to buy lower-priced products and get a better service experience.
source: beijing daily
