What are the travel functions of Alipay?

In fact, it is really cost-effective to use Alipay when traveling. In addition to booking hotel discounts, there are many other functions, such as coupons and foreign currency exchange, which everyone will use when traveling.

Booking a hotel with flowers and sesame seeds The biggest advantage of booking a hotel with flowers and sesame seeds is that you won't pay back until next month after the write-off. In other words, if you don't write off your expenses, you don't need to pay them back.

This is very different from credit card hoarding. Credit card hoarding hotels, whether it is written off or not, will be returned as long as the account period arrives (usually next month).

Once the goods you hoard are not used immediately, or you just hoard without considering whether to go eventually, the advantages of Bai Hua's hoarding goods will come out.

Of course, not all channels are paid by Huabai after verification. At present, only flying pigs are like this. Although Ctrip and Qunar can also use flower buds, like credit cards, it is the next month after payment, not the next month after verification.

Bai Hua buys tourist goods in Zhu Fei, and not all goods can be paid within one month after verification. Some goods whose travel dates have been determined (air tickets, free travel, calendar hotels) are actually written off once they are photographed and will be returned next month.

Unfortunately, these have always been aimed at the welfare of flying pigs.

But it's different now. Bai Hua and Sesame Credit launched a new tool. As long as your sesame credit score exceeds 600, you can use Bai Hua 0 yuan to stock up the goods, and then make repayment after verification.

The key point is that this function point not only supports flying pigs. There are many hotels (Junting, Blue Army) and some OTA (Little Pig short rent, etc.). ) have permission.

At present, this function has just been launched, and there is not much commodity support. I feel that Sesame should have a BD team to follow up this project.

And according to the grapevine in Lu Bianshe, last week, the CEO of Ctrip personally led a team to communicate with ants, and one of the major focuses was to access the new tool of flower buds and sesame seeds.

In this year's OTA competition, Ctrip is strong on the supply side, but the disadvantage is that everyone needs to actually spend money on hoarding goods. Flying pigs is better than flowers, and the pressure of hoarding goods in flowers only takes up places without cost.

The path of this tool is currently hidden deep. Searching for keywords on Alipay can directly enter the activity page.

Alipay APP travel function 1) support

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Similar to the FHR rights of American Express Centurion Card, hotel reservation can include room upgrade, free breakfast, late check-out and welcome (most of the expenses are $65,438+000).

Moreover, there are SNPs.

Of course, the price is the same as FHR, and it will be more expensive than the normal calendar. So it is not necessarily cheaper than what you ordered on the OTA channel. It is always right to compare more.

Platinum members are six times a year, and diamond members are unlimited times a year.

2) Massive coupons and destination strategies

Path: Alipay-Word of Mouth-Select the city in the upper left corner.

For example, in Macau, after you click in, there will be a lot of store coupons to collect. Don't be shy to get it. You saved money by buying in buy buy, and Alipay also got the commission you bought in buy buy. It must be a win-win situation.

In addition, if you want to get a money-saving strategy to travel to this destination, you can also get it through this path. Or this Macao example, for example, if you are Alipay's diamond and platinum, hotels under Sands (Venetian, Parisian, Conrad) can upgrade their rooms for free; Dozens of restaurants under Jinsha can get a 20% discount on meals; I can also get an egg tart to eat every day.

3) Foreign currency exchange

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You can change money at the airport by making an appointment. Of course, the exchange rate is definitely not as good as going to the bank, but it is very convenient after all.

4) Tax refund

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Support 85 airports in 35 countries, mainly for convenience (real-time arrival, less handling fee than cash tax refund). If you are a diamond and platinum member of Alipay, you can also enjoy the exclusive tax refund right.

5) Outward purchasing

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Outbound shopping means that when you are in China, you can buy things from the airport duty-free shop in advance, and then you can get duty-free goods at the airport.

At present, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Shenyang, Nanjing and Xi airports all have support.

Or, when going to Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and other exit destinations, buy good goods in the duty-free shop in advance. It also saves the time of picking goods.

I looked at the outbound purchases and found that there are direct mail duty-free items from Japan and Hong Kong. Later, I communicated with my business classmates. The direct mail of duty-free goods is taxed, but the channel of duty-free shops may be more advantageous, so everyone seems to have a good price. But there is still a big gap compared with buying directly in the store after leaving the country.

6) Entry-exit information inquiry

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Isn't it impossible to go out this year? So this latest and most comprehensive entry and exit information is on it. I can tell you something about the inquiry about the temporary immigration control measures in the country (or region) you are going to, as well as the inquiry about the traffic at China port.

More practical.

At the same time, if you are abroad, you can also find the contact information of the embassy in case of emergency.