Can't use WeChat Pay? Meituan responded: The payment system was abnormal and has been fully restored

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On May 24, "Meituan cannot use WeChat payment" became a hot search on Weibo this morning. Some netizens reported that they found that Meituan could not use WeChat payment when ordering takeout.

At 12:43 p.m. today, Meituan issued a response through its official Weibo account: At 10:28 this morning, we received a notification that the WeChat payment system was experiencing abnormal jitters. The programmer has cooperated with WeChat to complete the repair, and WeChat payment was fully restored at 11:13. We are sorry for the delay in everyone's meal.

According to reports, Meituan customer service had earlier explained that the abnormality might be due to the failure to update the version: "If you cannot use WeChat Pay, please check whether the WeChat client and Meituan client are the latest versions. If not, it is recommended to update and try again."

In addition, according to feedback from netizens, in addition to online platforms that support third-party payments such as Meituan, JD.com, and Pinduoduo being affected, the WeChat payment offline payment codes of some service providers were also temporarily unable to pay during the same period of time.

According to Meituan's fourth quarter and full-year financial reports for 2020, Meituan's revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020 was 37.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.7%. The full-year revenue was 114.8 billion yuan, a record high, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%.

Meituan's net profit in 2020 was 4.71 billion yuan, compared with 2.239 billion yuan in the same period last year, an increase of 110.5%.

In 2020, Meituan’s catering takeaway transactions reached 10.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16.3%, and the number of annual transaction users reached 510 million.

As of December 31, 2020, the number of active merchants on the Meituan platform was 6.8 million, and the number of brand merchants newly launched on Meituan Takeout increased by 127% year-on-year.

In addition to its core business, Meituan’s new businesses invested in for the future also continued to grow steadily, with full-year revenue from new businesses increasing by 33.6% to 27.3 billion yuan.