2. The Problem
• Paying with cash is inconvenient
• Paying with credit card is even worse
• Online and Offline Transactions Separated
3. The Persona
• Customer
• Don’t want to use cash
• Don’t have a credit card
• Want to buy things in seconds
• Vendor/Small Shop Owner
• Cannot afford a POS/Cashier
• Want to manage their income easily
15. Secret Sauce
• Convenient transactions enabled by
QR code
• Cooperation with Alibaba’s e-
commerce platform Taobao.com
• Very high transaction successful rate in
high frequency environment
• ~99% successful rate while 9B
transactions happened in a second
16. Competition
Alipay WeChat Pay Apple Pay
QR code In-store
Payment
Large User Basis
Connection with
Social Platform
Connection with
eCommerce Platform
17. Predictions
• Success
• Still dominates the Mainland China Market
• Might expands to overseas market if passes the regulation
The company I want to talk about today is Alipay, a third party online payment processor company that is founded in China. Its parent company, Alibaba Group, is the sixth largest company in the world by market value, and is the second largest e-commerce company in the world.(The first is amazon).
It was usually recognized as China’s paypal, as they share many common features. They are all third party online payment methods that tried to create an online currency that replace cash. However,
Alipay has now become a much bigger company. It is estimated to have an IPO size of around 10 billion dollars in 2019. In my opinion, these two companies are completely different, as they are facing different personas, which determines their development potential.
So here is our three problems.
Bring so many tiny papers with you, maybe lost your purse
Enter password for every time
Online and Offline in one app
If you have checked the problem of Paypal, you will find them similar to the problem of Alipay. However, their persona is completely different