Mercedes-Benz Museum accepts cashless payments via Alipay

By CARSIFU | 14 August 2017


BEIJING/STUTTGART: East meets West earlier this month when the Stuttgart-based Mercedes-Benz Museum began accepting Alipay payments, bringing more convenience to its Chinese visitors and becoming the first German automotive museum to introduce the popular mobile cashless payment service.

Alipay payments, which began on Aug 8, are accepted for tickets and merchandise in the museum shop. Transactions in the museum will be initiated in euro and billed in renmimbi to the consumers Alipay account. The currency conversion is done by Alipay, China’s leading online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group.



The move is aimed at attracting more Chinese tourists to the museum.

The museum documents over 130 years of automobile history, complete from the first day, with 160 vehicles and more than 1,500 exhibits on display on nine levels. In 2016, the largest number of foreign visitors to the museum, at around 10 percent, was from China, as was the eight-millionth visitor to the museum on Feb 14 this year.

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