Alipay to Launch Voice-verified Payment

Alipay, China’s leading online payment service announced plan to launch a special voice-verified payment processing system last week. Customers, within 15 seconds after purchasing online  will get cellphone calls from Alipay. By following voice instruction and simply pressing two keys they get done with the payment.  If payment service fails to reach the shopper like when his cellphone is out of service or shut off, it will send him a texted message reminding him of the purchase. The payment can be done later by replying the message.

The whole process of this voice-verified payment takes about 30 seconds and shoppers just need to be called by Alipay instead of calling banks and payment service companies by themselves. As most of Chinese cellphone users book receive-phone-free service, they do not need to pay anything in the paying process.

Alipay’s aggressive move to go mobile is backgrounded by China’s rapid developing mobile market. By April 2008, China boasts 565 million SIM card subscribers and a daily growth rate of 300,000. The number of internet users, however, is no more than half of this number.

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