Many readers carry both Chinese and U.S. credit cards. In the original PayPal Key introduction, I mentioned that AMEX credit cards issued in mainland China (USD version) can be lin...

Meituan Pay is getting more and more powerful, and it works pretty well even for US cards. See also: Meituan, Ele.me + U.S. Credit Cards Full Guide [2020.11 update: Meituan expande...

For a summary of merchants that support WeChat Pay + U.S. (foreign) credit cards, you can jump to my roundup article: WeChat Pay + merchants that support foreign credit cards (incl...

This bug appears to be dead. It probably will never show up again. The fact that it lasted an entire week was already pretty unbelievable. WeChat, please don’t come after me—I only...

WeChat has always been a bellwether in mainland China’s payments sector, including when it comes to using U.S. credit cards: WeChat Pay + U.S. Credit Cards: A Complete Guide + Risk...

DP from Feicha’s “his person.” Not sure whether this is a bug, but the Pinduoduo App is just wild. It actually supports paying via Apple Pay and then using any credit card linked t...

Friendly reminder: exchange rates have been extremely volatile lately and this is a sensitive topic, so treat this as an entertaining quick news post only. As we know, using WeChat...

KUKU will be putting together a roundup of places in mainland China that can directly accept foreign credit cards, focusing mainly on mainstream, budget-friendly merchants. These w...

Dmall is a supermarket self-checkout app (and it also works via a WeChat Mini Program) that is available in many mid-sized and large supermarkets across numerous cities. It has act...

[Update] Sable’s Chinese name has changed. It’s now something much more classical: the Diaochan Card (it used to be called the Cheetah Card). Not sure whether that’s because it has...

[Updated 2020.11] Recently, in addition to broadly categorizing transaction postings under Wechatpay, see the full WeChat guide here. WeChat’s customer-service entry points now hav...