Alipay Helps France Paris Spring Department Store To Clear Up Barriers To Payment.

In fact, Alipay launched the cross-border tax rebate service in October 2013.

Up to now, 17 European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Holland and Spain, have all supported Alipay's tax rebate service, covering Paris's Spring Department stores, Harrods department stores in the United Kingdom, Danish Magasin department stores, Chanel, Burberry and other more than 30 thousand general merchandise stores.

In 2013, Alipay also launched the strategy of globalization, focusing on the expansion of outbound tourism consumption.

At present, in addition to the tax rebate, Alipay based on overseas O2O business, Hai Tao, cross border remittance, pportation cards and other fields to accelerate penetration.

In the same period, Alibaba is also accelerating cross-border e-commerce business.

In addition to launching all kinds of cross-border business services in the form of the National Pavilion, Taobao's overseas travel and other businesses have also accelerated the layout of overseas markets.

Reporters learned from Alipay that the Paris spring department store in France has been formally connected to Alipay's tax refund. After that, users will buy various kinds of luxuries in the spring of Paris, France. They can use Alipay's tax rebate directly, and the tax rebate will be the fastest 10 working days to arrive at Alipay.

This is another high-end department store after Alipay's tax rebate, after Italy Renaissance department store, British Harrods department store and Germany Kaufhof department store.

At present, Alipay tax rebate service has covered over 3 000 merchants in 16 European countries.

France this time

Department stores are introducing Alipay and PTF together to build rebates for self-service machines.

Consumers do not need to manually fill out the tax refund documents on a tax rebate list with all kinds of information, nor do they have to worry about failing to fill in the tax refund due to filling errors or writing problems.

Just scan your passport directly on the rebate machine in Paris spring shopping mall. Click on it.

Tax refund option, enter the number of Alipay mobile phone binding, you can print out tax refund.

Before leaving the country, the user returns the tax rebate to the customs inspection seal and delivers it to the designated mailbox at the airport, so that he can wait for the refund account to the Alipay account.

After 10 working days, the tax rebate will be automatically converted into RMB to the consumer's Alipay account, and there will be a notice of arrival information.

The whole process is about 3 times faster than the general credit card tax rebate.

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The tax rebate for Alipay can reach the level of real time arrival. The efficiency will also be realized in European businesses such as spring department store in Paris, France.

"We are very pleased to be able to cooperate with Alipay so that Chinese consumers can enjoy more convenient tax rebates for shopping."

Paris spring department store, France.

Statistics show that the consumption tax rebate for Chinese tourists increased by 18% in 2013 compared with that in 2013, accounting for about 1/3 of the global total. The consumption tax rebates for the seven consecutive years ranked first in the world. However, due to the tedious process of tax refund service and various other factors, many Chinese tourists gave up the preferential tax rebate service that they should enjoy.

For the cooperation with the spring of Paris in France, most industry insiders said that Alipay's move was intended to further promote cross-border payment business, thereby clearing up the barriers to payment in the cross-border e-commerce business of Alibaba.