Vpayfast: How to Add Money to WeChat without a Chinese Bank Account?

If you didn’t already know, paying by WeChat in China has quickly overtaken cash as the most common method of payment. From meals, clothing, rent, bills, taxis, and almost everything else, paying cash was the norm. However today, apps like Alipay and WeChat are transforming China into a cashless society where transactions are commonly carried out via the phone in your pocket. If you’re traveling to China, it’s entirely possible to get around using cash…but it’s not always the easiest option. What if there were an easier way to add money to WeChat so you could pay with your phone in China? There is, and you’ve probably never heard of it before.

Using mobile payments as a foreigner in China used to be extremely difficult. Thankfully, that has changed over the past couple years and now you can use WeChat for most of your payments while living here. The only remaining challenge is figuring out how to add money to WeChat.

There are a few different ways that you can add money to WeChat on your phone:

1. Link a Chinese Bank Account: Originally, you had to open a bank account in China in order to link your Chinese bank card to your WeChat wallet. It wasn’t a simple process but it makes paying with WeChat easy from that point forward.

2. Link a Foreign Credit Card & Ask your friends to transfer money to you

Link a Foreign Credit Card: In late 2017, news broke that for some countries it was possible to add a foreign credit card to your WeChat wallet. Great news! Vpayfast has some customers who tried in this way and figured out successfully, but many other failed at the same time. If you have a credit card, you can try your luck. But the problem still remains, as you can only use your credit card to finish the Real-Name Authentication, but you can not use it to recharge your wechat wallet directly, as wechat only accept Chinese bank card.

WeChat Balance Transfers: That leaves us with one final option after you finish the real name verification– accepting balance transfers. As a foreign traveler, you can have a friend transfer you money and then use that balance to pay for things.

But how can you do the Real-Name Authentication and transfer money if you don’t know anybody in China? – No worries, Vpayfast can help!

Real-Name Authentication

Simply contact Vpayfast if you need to verify your wechat account, always this can be finished in 5 minutes.

Questions are listed as follows:

1. How do I know if I need this service ?

You definitely need this service when you see the status "Unverified" beside Real-Name Authentication,

You can check the status in this way:

WeChat Me → Wallet → Pay Center(top right) → Manage Payments → Real-Name Authentication

2. What happens if I don't verify my WeChat account ?

For WeChat accounts without Real-Name Authentication, features of which related to WeChat pay (lucky money, P2P transfers) will be affected:

These accounts cannot receive money through either Lucky Money or Money Transfer.

These accounts cannot make any payments.

When users are using payment features WeChat will guide users to complete the Real-Name Authentication.

3. Why is this happening?

According to the regulations of the People's Bank of China, users must first complete Real-Name Authentication in order to use WeChat Pay for Red Packets, Money Transfer, or other payments.

WeChat Balance Transfers

Then if you need to recharge your wallet, you can pay by Visa or Mastercard or other local payment methods (More than 60 payment methods available now) on vpayfast, then Vpayfast will transfer to you.

It goes something like this:

Vpayfast acts as the platform where people who need Chinese yuan can use their USD or other currencies to exchange directly.

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