How to Pay in China – Pay with WeChat Pay

Step 1:

Download the WeChat App from the mobile app store (APP Store for Apple phones, Google App Market for Android phones) or through the web page (https://www.wechat.com/en/), and use your mobile phone number to register an account.




Special reminder: It is more convenient to register WeChat with an overseas mobile phone number. It can be bound to an overseas bank card, but make sure that the overseas mobile phone number can receive the registration verification SMS.


Step 2:

Find the WeChat payment entrance and bind the bank card.




If you cannot find the WeChat payment entrance, you can enable it in the following ways.




In "Wallet", click "Add Bank Card" to enter the process of filling in identity information and binding foreign cards. After the user agrees to the service agreement, enter the next step, fill in or check the identity information according to the page operation, continue to click "Next" to add the wild card, and follow the prompts to complete the activation.


Special reminder: Whether an overseas bank card can be linked depends on whether the identity information submitted is overseas. If you use an overseas mobile phone number to register for WeChat and submit overseas identity information, you can bind an overseas bank card. If you use a domestic mobile phone number to register for WeChat, the system will default to a domestic person and push the option of submitting domestic identity information. Many foreign friends think that you can only bind domestic bank cards, but in fact, as long as you submit overseas identity information, you can still bind overseas. bank card.




Step 3:

How to pay using WeChat Pay?

In China, there are two payment scenarios. The first one is that in large supermarkets, hotels and other places, you will be asked to show your payment QR code, and the merchant will use a POS machine to scan your QR code to complete the payment. The second type is small shops, food stalls, taxis and other small merchants. The merchant will show you its payment QR code and tell you how much you need to pay. You use the App to scan the merchant's QR code and enter the payment. password to complete the payment.

Use WeChat Pay to open the payment code or scan the code to pay. Click on the upper right corner of the WeChat main page - "Scan" or "Receive and Pay" to complete the payment.