Original title: Meituan responded to the cancellation of Alipay: ele.me App does not support WeChat Pay
Meituan has just responded to the cancellation of Alipay.
On July 29, the media reported thatSome users found that when using Meituan to payMeituan's monthly payment and bank card payment take priority, no longer show Alipay, while WeChat Pay and ApplePay are still on the payment choice list.
It is reported that this is not the first time that Meituan has cancelled Alipay. Twice in 2016 and 2018, users reported that Meituan could not use Alipay for ordering food.
This afternoon, Meituan's monthly official Weibo responded that"in fact, it is equally appropriate to change the main body of this article to ele.me app and WeChat Pay," the new intern whispered after reading the 36Kr Holdings report.
What's interesting is thatMeituan also posted a screenshot of the payment page of ele.me, showing that there are only two payment methods: Hua Bai and Alipay.
Meituan's monthly payment is a credit payment product of Meituan Financial Service.. When users who open Meituan's monthly payment spend on Meituan App, whether it is group food, order takeout, stay in a hotel, travel or ride a bike, take a taxi, or buy food, they can first use the credit line granted by Meituan to complete the payment, and then repay the loan uniformly on the 8th of next month, with a maximum interest-free period of 38 days.
According to Meituan's official data, Meituan's monthly payment, as a consumer financial tool, has an obvious driving effect on local living consumption: after users launched Meituan's monthly payment, the average number of local living orders such as catering, leisure and entertainment increased by more than 20%, and the transaction amount increased by more than 15% on average.
Meituan ranked second after BABA, according to the 2020 Hurun China Top 10 E-commerce released by Hurun Research Institute on July 10.
At present, Meituan's market capitalization has exceeded 1.13 trillion Hong Kong dollars, making it the third largest Internet company after BABA and Tencent. Meituan comments 2019 financial results show that Tencent accounts for about 18% of Meituan's total shares.