There’s a WeChat group for everything. These group chats are usually topic-specific, and you might find yourself in a group with hundreds of (up to 500) people you don’t know.
The group below is a game channel for World of Warcraft.
a game channel for World of Warcraft
The moderators of these chat groups can’t control the philippine cellphone number messages, but they can control who gets to join and stay in the group.
Moderators are usually pretty strict.
If members stray too far off-topic or start posting things like promotional content, the moderator may give them a warning, or just kick them out immediately.
WeChat Pay
Now, this is very important.
WeChat Pay
If you’re in China, and you buy anything offline, let’s say you’re at a convenience store, in a restaurant, or buying snacks from a street-food vendor, when it’s time to pay, the person behind the counter or the cart is going to ask you “支付宝? 微信?” (Alipay? WeChat?).
They won’t ask for cash because nobody really uses it nowadays in China. Even if you try to pay with physical money, there’s a good chance they won’t be able to accept it.
Within the WeChat Pay area, I can see the balance on my digital wallet.
Wechat wallet
I don’t normally keep much money in here (it’s even less now because I’ve just sent my wife eight yuan for her birthday). I also keep bank or credit cards connected to this wallet.
When it’s time to pay for something, I’ll either have to scan the vendor’s QR code or they’ll ask for mine (the QR code is blurred out in the image below).
the vendor’s QR code
Underneath my QR code, there are some other cool features related to paying. For example, I can split the bill with my friends if we’re eating together in a restaurant.
Mini-Programs
Within the WeChat Pay area, we can see some of WeChat’s major mini-programs, or mini-apps (as they’re sometimes now known).
some of WeChat’s major mini-programs
These mini-programs have a lot of users on their own. To give you a number, approximately 745 million people are using these programs every month.
Let’s take Didi’s “Ride Hailing”, for example, which is very similar to the taxi service Uber.
Ride Hailing
Now, Didi has a separate app, but—as you can see—I can also access the service through the WeChat mini-program.
When this loads up, I can go ahead and book a car.
Didi APP
I’m currently in Canada, so I’m not completely sure this would work here, but it would definitely work in mainland China.
Two of the main benefits of a mini-program over a regular app are its quick loading speeds and easy installation.
Loyalty Programs
At restaurants in China. there’s always going to be a QR code that