Alipay, China’s major third-party payment service, announced it will start charging fees for transferring more than 20,000 yuan ($3,000) to bank accounts.
The new policy that takes effect on Oct. 12 said Alipay users need to pay a fee of 0.1 percent when they transfer money from the app’s built-in digital wallet to a bank account.
The charge will be levied on withdrawals above the threshold, with the minimum fee for each transfer set at 0.1 yuan.
這筆服務費是建立在超出免費額度的部分之上收取,單筆服務費不到0.1元的則按照0.1元收取。
Run by Alibaba’s financial affiliate Ant Financial, the popular app now enables users to make inter-bank transfers and to Alipay accounts free of charge.
作為阿里巴巴螞蟻金服旗下的支付平臺,支付寶目前支持用戶免費跨行轉賬以及支付寶賬戶之間轉賬。
With more than 450 million active users, Alipay said its new policy is due to "rapidly increase operating costs".
作為擁有4.5億活躍用戶的支付平臺,支付寶坦言之所以進行規則調整是因為“綜合運營成本上升太快”。
According to the new policy, the money transferred between Alibaba’s online investment fund Yu’ebao and Alipay will continue to be free of charge.
根據最新推出的新規,余額寶到支付寶之間的轉賬將繼續免費。
Alipay is not the first e-wallet to charge fees. In March, popular mobile messaging software WeChat also began charging 0.1 percent for money transfers over 1,000 yuan.