An Alipay’s face-scanning payment device is placed on the cashier counter of a convenience store. The slim digital white bracket holds an iPad-sized screen. The two small black eyes above the big screen are cameras used to capture faces. Eyes, screens, and face-swiping payment materials together encourage consumers to try this futuristic new payment method. Tap face to pay, the system automatically recognizes the face in front of the screen and associates the Alipay account, enter the last four digits of the phone number, and the payment is complete.
However, if you dare to use face payment in the morning rush hour, you will be yelled at by the cashier of this convenience store. During this time when efficiency is most important, queue up, open the payment code in advance, and then the cashier will scan the code directly Money is still the faster way. Face-swiping payment, smart medical care, smart campus, smart bank, catering, supermarket, hotel, non-sense parking lot, various scene solutions, software customization development, payment equipment wholesale, please Baidu "Zhangyou Electronic Wei" for details
Paying by face is certainly not useless. In supermarkets and other scenes, it is often connected with self-service cashiers. Consumers can scan the goods themselves, click to pay, and then use the face to pay. It is not the quickest way to collect cash, but it can save labor costs to the greatest extent. Supermarket chain brand BBK Smart Retail In a BBK supermarket, a cashier can take care of four self-service face-swiping cash registers at the same time, only when consumers need help.
Elderly people especially like to use facial recognition to pay. Many elderly people are still accustomed to paying for water, electricity, gas, etc. at offline business locations. Paying with their faces can save them from filling in account numbers, identity information and many other complicated content, saving them and the staff at the business locations a lot of time .
Behind the payment action, face-swiping also includes many layouts and considerations of the two giants, WeChat and Alipay. Face-swiping devices can also display merchants’ advertisements and get through merchants’ coupons and membership cards. On the other hand, face-swiping devices can connect Alibaba and Tencent’s cloud computing, applets, etc., and output their capabilities to Business. Whether it is smart retail or new retail, they all hope to fully and deeply participate in the digital transformation of the offline retail industry.
WeChat Pay has revealed that currently, among the users who pay with their faces, there are more users in third- and fourth-tier cities. Out of privacy considerations, many users in first- and second-tier cities are suspicious of face payment. Regulators also have doubts about the security of facial payment. Recently, Li Wei, the director of the Science and Technology Department of the Central Bank, has repeatedly put forward higher requirements for the security of facial payment, consumer privacy and free will protection.