Alipay - Simplify Your Life

I downloaded the app prior to our trip to Beijing and must say this helped us so much, as China is so digitalized. Before you leave add you creditcard (amex doesn’t work, we used Mastercard). It’s a bit trial and error, it took me a few iteration, but got it linked. In the app you have a number of mini apps. You almost have everything you need in the one app. The most used function is Pay/Receive. If you open you’ll get a QR code. Shop owners will scan the QR code to pay. It feels very secure. You have to confirm with pincode and if the amount is bigger there’s another validation from the credit card app. One time something seemed wrong - I thought I had paid, but the merchant said not. But the transaction was reversed the next day. The next useful app is Transport. If you open it you see metro and bus (and train, but didn’t use that). You must activate this first (two clicks), choose a city and then you have a QR code you can use in the metro/bus. Works like a clock. Scan when you enter and when you leave and you pay automatically. The next critical mini app is Didi Travel, it’s a taxi service like uber. You can enter your destination. The taxi knows where you are, pick you up. Sometimes you havce to show the last for digits of your phone number (I made a note to show the drivers). Add the end of the ride you confirm the payment. So convenient. Alipay also has build-in translation. Last miniapp we used was Hello Ride. Same concept for shared (blue) bikes. Scan the QR code on the bike to unlock. Park at a marked spot (where other bikes are already parked) and end the ride on in the app. One important thing to know to learn the hardware. Mastercard only allows 15 transactions a day per account (not card). The 16th transaction will not work. So keep track to ensure you don’t enjoy a nice meal and then you’re not able to pay.

During ID verification asks for Chinese bank card, for verification. If I had a Chinese bank, I wouldn’t need this nonsense app. Not working for non-Chinese inhabitants.

I can’t switch my app to the international interface. It keeps saying ‘it is crowded. Try again later’

After playing your bankcard to Alipay you are definitely sure that he will find your bank app and have more then 6 regristrations but the alipay app is immature to apply your bankcard into the app, so you still can’t use it.

My aliepay is in English (not fully but enough to understand). It also shows my location and gave me an account to taobao. I added my debit card to it and it works well. I haven’t tried to use it in Holland just yet, so we’ll see. Overall, very happy

What a worthless app. As a Dutch person you cannot even enter a bank account. I install my language is english but everything is in chinese? So I can't use this app and I can't buy anything from Aliexpress anymore.

If I want to do something I get Chinese letters but in settings it is English fix this

I changed setting to English but still a lot of info or subpages are in Chinese. Can’t use. If you want to make an international version please make it 100% English

Pathetic

Als Nederlandse paspoort houder kan je gelukkig gebruik maken van Alipay in China, maar jammer genoeg (nog) niet in Nederland. (Dat kan alleen als je een Mainland ID hebt.)