Technology makes our lives easier as we can now avail goods and services without bringing a cash. Now, this innovation has reached the country's largest and most popular night food market, Mercato Centrale.
Photo courtesy of Mercato Central Facebook page
With this newest feature within the GCash App, customers can now use their GCash account to pay for their food and drinks by simply scanning QR codes displayed at Mercato Centrale merchants.
Sample of G Cash QR code that is displayed at one of Mercato Centrale's merchants. Photo courtesy of Arabelle Jimenez
For consumers, this eliminates the hassle of bringing money, waiting for change, or getting into a dispute with the cashier over payments. Merchants, on the other hand, no longer need expensive machines to process mobile money transactions but only a QR with a unique code that is linked to their GCash wallet.
To use the scan to pay GCash feature using your iPhone or Android smartphone, the customer needs to download or update to the latest version of the GCash App, register for an account, and fund the GCash wallet at any of over 12,000 GCash outlets nationwide.
Once done, the consumer can just tap on Scan QR, point the phone camera at the merchant's QR code, and enter the amount. A text message will come in confirming the purchase.
As an introductory offer, you get 10% cashback on all of your purchases when you use your GCash as mode of payment. This offer is until September 30, 2017.
Mercato Centrale co-founder RJ Ledesma (left) and Mynt Chief Operating Officer Anthony Thomas (right) demonstrate the ease and convenience of using the new scan-to-pay feature of the GCash app. Photo courtesy of Globe Newsroom
“Mynt is dedicated to bringing the latest innovations in payments and e-commerce to the Philippines to continually enable the financially underserved, and this service is just one of many to come,” said James Mauricio Aujero, Head, Merchant Acquisition of Mynt, a subsidiary of Globe Telecom, which aims to address financial inclusion through mobile money, micro-loans, and technology.
“GCash is a great opportunity for our small-scale food business entrepreneurs to serve more clients, expand their customer base and scale up their business,” Mercato Centrale co-founder RJ Ledesma added, pertaining to the value and convenience GCash adds to his franchise.
GCash’s scan to pay QR code feature is continuing its rollout in select partner merchants in the coming weeks. Its introduction is in line with the thrust of China’s Ant Financial, parent company of Alipay and strategic partner of Mynt, to accelerate financial inclusion and upgrade payment services in the Philippines. Alipay popularized QR code payments in China with over 400 million users.
Learn more about GCash by visiting www.gcash.com. You can also follow them on their social media channels: www.facebook.com/gcashofficial, www.facebook.com/gcashcare, Twitter and Instagram at @gcashofficial
With this newest feature within the GCash App, customers can now use their GCash account to pay for their food and drinks by simply scanning QR codes displayed at Mercato Centrale merchants.
For consumers, this eliminates the hassle of bringing money, waiting for change, or getting into a dispute with the cashier over payments. Merchants, on the other hand, no longer need expensive machines to process mobile money transactions but only a QR with a unique code that is linked to their GCash wallet.
To use the scan to pay GCash feature using your iPhone or Android smartphone, the customer needs to download or update to the latest version of the GCash App, register for an account, and fund the GCash wallet at any of over 12,000 GCash outlets nationwide.
Once done, the consumer can just tap on Scan QR, point the phone camera at the merchant's QR code, and enter the amount. A text message will come in confirming the purchase.
As an introductory offer, you get 10% cashback on all of your purchases when you use your GCash as mode of payment. This offer is until September 30, 2017.
“Mynt is dedicated to bringing the latest innovations in payments and e-commerce to the Philippines to continually enable the financially underserved, and this service is just one of many to come,” said James Mauricio Aujero, Head, Merchant Acquisition of Mynt, a subsidiary of Globe Telecom, which aims to address financial inclusion through mobile money, micro-loans, and technology.
“GCash is a great opportunity for our small-scale food business entrepreneurs to serve more clients, expand their customer base and scale up their business,” Mercato Centrale co-founder RJ Ledesma added, pertaining to the value and convenience GCash adds to his franchise.
GCash’s scan to pay QR code feature is continuing its rollout in select partner merchants in the coming weeks. Its introduction is in line with the thrust of China’s Ant Financial, parent company of Alipay and strategic partner of Mynt, to accelerate financial inclusion and upgrade payment services in the Philippines. Alipay popularized QR code payments in China with over 400 million users.
Learn more about GCash by visiting www.gcash.com. You can also follow them on their social media channels: www.facebook.com/gcashofficial, www.facebook.com/gcashcare, Twitter and Instagram at @gcashofficial