
The move aims to “allow more small and medium-sized merchants to experience the convenience of digital renminbi payments in more scenarios”, the company said in a news release. JD said all its proprietary automatic cashiers and smart POS machines now accept digital yuan as a payment option and relevant software development kits have made digital yuan compatible. Internet giant JD has made functionality available across an array of its online and offline assets, including JD’s e-commerce and finance apps, as well as 7Fresh-the fresh food chain supermarket it backs. The app also said it will explore the novel digital yuan payment experience in Beijing’s Winter Olympic Village, which is set to open on Jan 27. Once activated, the function allows users to receive remittances and pay for goods and services with digital currency in WeChat. In a similar vein, Tencent-owned WeChat, China’s largest messaging app and one of the leading payment services, also began supporting the digital yuan last week via the WeChat Pay mobile wallet. The pilot version of the app was rolled out on Jan 4.

To link to two services, users need to first submit an identity authentication via the e-CNY app, the digital yuan wallet application developed by the central bank. The transaction value of the digital currency via Meituan also surged 64.4 percent compared with a week ago, the company said, adding that the number of users adding the digital yuan payment option to the Meituan mobile wallet expanded almost twentyfold. Local services company Meituan said the number of digital yuan-denominated payments jumped 42.7 percent after connecting the Meituan app with the e-CNY app, which was developed by the People’s Bank of China, the central bank.

Like this one, or of course this one.A shopper pays using e-CNY at a store in Sanya, Hainan province.Įlectronic payments via China’s digital currency have enjoyed a stratospheric rise in a matter of days after the novel payment option was made available across the country’s major mobile apps. If this doesn't work for you, keep in mind China has other payment options. If you have an older bank account that you registered with your previous passport, and you are using your new passort to register WeChat pay it won't work. The phone number and passport number registered with your bank must match the data you enter on WeChat.Your best option then is to register a new bank account with the exact same name as on WeChat If you used a middle name on your bank card but not on WeChat, you are out of luck. The name on your bank card must match exactly the name on registered on WeChat.If you are having trouble adding a bank card, here is what that usually boils down to: They’re asking you to do this because you shouldn’t be sending/receiving money from/to strangers with a newly created WeChat pay account to risk not getting blocked by their fraud detection. Once WeChat confirmation is received, ask three friends from existing contacts to send you small payment, receive payment to WeChat money. There's screenshots going around WeChat groups from another conversation with the WeChat support team that also suggests the following. 1) Withdraw all your money from WeChat in Balance > WithdrawĢ) Go to Payment Managment (the 3 dots on the top of the Pay page), and cancel all Auto-Deducation Services.Ĥ) Go to " Payment Managment" again and cancel WeChat Pay.ĥ) Set up WeChat Pay again by adding a new bank Card Please note that all your payment history will be deleted. This assumes that your WeChat pay was working fine until yesterday and that you currently have a bank card linked to your WeChat account. They should be answering daily 8am to 6pm. If this doesn't solve the problem, please contact WeChat support at 95017, choose 0 from the menu, then 9 for English. Long story short, you have to cancel WeChat Pay and set it up all over again. So, here's what you have to do to fix this problem if you are experiencing it.

Recent upgrading of banking regulations by the government has led to some trouble with the new version of WeChat.
