A number of colleges and universities said that due to the "additional handling fee", the official response of WeChat payment will be suspended.
Recently, a number of colleges and universities across the country announced that since July 1, due to the high handling fee of 0.2%-0.6% charged by WeChat payment, the WeChat scan code payment service will be suspended in all scenarios such as campus card. In this regard, on the 29th, Weibo, the official of Tencent WeChat team, issued a statement, saying that due to the poor transmission of individual adjustments to the payment rate of college life service scenarios, everyone misunderstood and troubled, and hereby apologized to the majority of schools, teachers and students. The statement also pointed out that "in the non-profit scene on campus, we will continue to maintain the zero-rate preferential policy".
Many colleges and universities issued a notice saying
Wechat payment was suspended due to the increase in handling fees.
On June 26, the announcement issued by Nanjing University of Science and Technology stated that "WeChat Payment will finely manage the merchants in campus scenes from July 1, 2023, and charge two thousandths of the channel rate for merchants in non-tuition scenes. In order to cope with the high channel cost of WeChat, the school will adjust the payment channels of the new campus card consumption system. " Specifically, the campus card WeChat recharge and consumption will stop service on June 30th.
On June 27th, Northwest University announced, "Because Tencent WeChat Payment will finely manage users of campus scenes from July 1st, all other charges will be restricted and a handling fee of 0.6% will be charged. In order to safeguard the interests of teachers and students, from June 30 th, the WeChat scan code payment service will be suspended for the one-card users in the school, and the one-card campus card, Bank of Communications App, China Unionpay Quick Pass and Alipay will be used normally. "
In addition, within a week, many universities including Jiangsu Normal University, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Luoyang Institute of Technology and so on also issued relevant announcements, saying that due to the increase in handling fees, WeChat payment will be suspended in the campus payment scene.
WeChat response: the non-profit payment scenario continues to maintain zero rate.
In this regard, WeChat responded that WeChat Pay recently launched the merchant communication for the refined management of the campus industry rate. After the previous opinion collection and feedback, it is planned to provide services only for a small number of profitable scenarios such as e-commerce and wine travel at a preferential rate lower than the market average. "
Yesterday, the Tencent WeChat team released the "Latest Statement on College Rates" in the official Weibo, saying that due to the poor transmission of individual adjustments to the payment rates for college life service scenarios, everyone misunderstood and troubled, and we hereby apologize to the majority of schools and teachers and students. The statement also pointed out that in the campus non-profit scene, the zero-rate preferential policy will continue to be maintained.
The statement said: "Since 2015, WeChat payment has entered the campus, and long-term preferential policies of zero rate have been given to non-profit payment scenarios (tuition and fees, life services, etc.) on campus. However, with the continuous rise of campus scenes and the number of merchants, WeChat Pay found that some profit scenes such as e-commerce and business travel crowded out zero-rate education subsidy resources, resulting in increasing costs. This adjustment is to clarify this small number of profitability scenarios and implement a preferential rate policy below the market level. "
According to the reporter of Beiqing Daily, WeChat will charge a "channel fee" to the receiving merchants, which is generally 0.6%, and there will be concessions for some industries, such as 0.2%, 0.28%, 0.35%, etc., while it was 0% for college scenes such as tuition fees.
Text/reporter Wen Wei