SHANGHAI, China, March 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai SmartPay Jieyin Ltd.(“SmartPay”),a leading electronic payment processor in China, today announced a partnership with Lu Hai Kong travel agency in Hefei, Anhui Province, to jointly launch mobile and telephone based payment for airline electronic tickets.
As part of the launch promotion, customers who buy airline e-ticket in Lu Hai Kong ticket agency and process payment via interactive voice response (IVR) or short messaging service (SMS) will receive complementary travel insurance with RMB 400,000 indemnification. Customers can purchase airline tickets via IVR or SMS after a simple registration process, and simply show the airline their ID card while boarding a flight. For more information about the partnership and promotion, customers in Anhui can dial SmartPay’s local call center on +86-551-261-9292.
Airline tickets purchased via IVR and SMS offer significant convenience for consumers. Customers eliminate paper tickets, no longer have to pay with cash as is most typical in China, and use a boarding pass as proof of purchase. This convenience has created a loyal following for SmartPay airline ticketing partnerships already launched in Chongqing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
As a leader in the payment field in China, SmartPay has been amongst the first to apply telephone and mobile-based applications to offline transactions currently completed with cash. This includes mobile top-up, utility bills, airline ticketing, and digital cards, lottery and other transactions. Airline e-ticketing has been one of the Company’s most rapidly increasing markets.
Greg Shen Guowei, CEO of SmartPay Jieyin, commented, “Airline E-ticketing requires collaboration between travel-related service companies, banks and payment processors.. As a leading financial payment service provider, we can implement significant value-added applications with our partner merchants to ensure better functionality, access to a broader customer base and transaction security.
About SmartPay
SmartPay provides remote payment services in China under the brand name “Jieyin”. Chinese consumers and intermediaries utilize SmartPay Jieyin for the payment of mobile, utility, travel-related and other payments. Smartpay continues to launch additional payment services under the “Jieyin” brand name. Investors in SmartPay include RRE Ventures ( http://www.rre.com ), Evolution Capital, Lunar Group Capital, Accel Partners and others.
