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on september 5, taobao released an announcement announcing the addition of wechat payment capabilities: in order to enhance consumers' shopping experience, taobao plans to add wechat payment capabilities, which will be gradually opened to all taobao sellers seven days after this announcement is published. it will take effect on september 12, 2024, which is today.

based on the addition of the above services, taobao has upgraded its platform rules accordingly. the main changes are: the names, accounts, balances, transaction amounts, etc. related to payment service providers are uniformly standardized as "payment institution", "payment account", "payment account balance", and "order transaction amount".

later, the reporter found that, as of now, alipay is still the "preferred" payment channel on the payment page, but some merchants have already supported wechat payment. it is worth noting that if you want to choose wechat payment, you need to click "change" on the page to enter the "payment method selection" - "wechat payment" to make a payment.

in response to this, taobao's official customer service told reporters that consumers do not need to activate wechat payment. once the wechat payment function of the platform merchants is activated, the consumer end will automatically take effect. at present, please refer to the payment page. at the same time, a taobao merchant staff also said that they are currently accepting invitations in batches, and there is no specific activation time yet.

source: zhengguan news, tencent news