Alipay Uses Fun Cartoons to Show Your Yearly Spending Habits
Source: http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/26489
Alipay recently released a new feature on their mobile app platform where users can check out their yearly spending habits. Upon seeing the news, we admit a shiver of fear ran down our spine as we suffer from regrettable ‘Hot on Taobao’ purchases of shower tubs and ‘anti-pervert’ flamethrowers.
But it turns out, the creative folks at Alipay made this annual account statement with a more comedic approach in mind, adding fun animations for different categories of purchases. The mini-program can be accessed by typing ‘zhangdan’ (账单) into the Alipay search bar, then click on the top search result, which should read 账单 and press the uppermost green banner above your list of transactions.
Check below to see what the program looks like.
Alipay’s tribute to paper recipts. Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
Counting up all your food-related purchases. Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
What was your busiest shopping month? Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
We think you can guess what this amount relates to. Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
Those weekend getaways really added up! Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
The full ‘bar’ tab. Screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s
This latest financial tool has been the talk of Weibo, with users sharing their personal spending habits on the worldwide web. One netizen posted, “Now I finally know where all my money went,” sharing screenshots that showed he spent RMB213,379 on Alipay in 2018.
Image via @文刀木水/Weibo
Another user posted
a picture of her yearly spending total of RMB57,503.57, which was
higher than 93 percent of people the same age as her. She wrote, “After
seeing my Alipay bill today, I finally know how I have slowly gotten
poor.” Many others are questioning how much money they truly earned this year after taking a glance at their year-end statements.
For those of you less keen on using Alipay for your transactions, WeChat Pay also has a list of transactions to help you see where your money is going (minus the cartoons).
A noodle-shop owner in Southwest China finally discovered a man had cheated her dozens of times by showing her a screenshot of a payment receipt for the lunch he had just consumed.
"He only paid twice but has eaten here almost every day and has only shown me a screenshot for the payment," said the very angry noodle-shop owner in the city of Chongqing in a video posted by the Beijing News on Thursday.
"If I hadn't found out he would have bilked me forever," she said.
"You're a thief!" the owner shouts at the man as they argue in a stairwell, the video shows. The man sarcastically gives the woman two thumbs up before slinking off.
The local police mediated the dispute and ordered the man to pay the shop owner 800 yuan ($116).
The solution didn't go over well with netizens on social media, many of whom wanted the man to be charged with fraud.
"He got off too lightly," A netizen wrote on Sina Weibo under a username "Shandianqinniu."
"The guy should be blacklisted by the social credit system," another user "Toukakale" commented.
The rapid rise of China's mobile payment system has been accompanied with a new wave of devious ways of cheating.
In December, police charged three men with a similar crime in which they only pretended to scan a payment barcode to purchase cigarettes in small grocery stores in East China's Zhejiang Province.
Source: http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/26489;
Cover image: screengrab by Ryan Gandolfo/That’s;
Global Times;http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1134761.shtml; Hangzhouexpat
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