AsiaPay, a provider of electronic payment gateway, has launched PesoPay online payment service with Globe Gcash to enable real-time internet payment to reach millions of GCASH mobile commerce customers in the Philippines and around the world.
Gcash is a mobile wallet facility available to Globe and Touch Mobile subscribers that allows cashless and cardless method of facilitating money remittance, donations, loan settlement, disbursement of salaries or commissions, and payment of bills, products and services, with a text message.
Businesses will be able to benefit from Gcash payment acceptance in any e-commerce web page using a PesoPay payment service. Gcash users will be able to shop online and complete their internet transaction from their mobile wallet in their Globe or Touch Mobile phones. PesoPay service via Gcash aims to merge the internet and mobile commerce seamlessly for the online customers and e-commerce merchants.
AsiaPay provides a suite of payment processing capabilities for banks, corporations, SMEs and charities. Gcash was launched in 2004 by Globe Telecom through its wholly- owned mobile commerce subsidiary, G-Xchange.
Joseph Chan, CEO of AsiaPay, said: “We are pleased to partner with Globe Gcash and expand its innovative mobile wallet for use in online payments for internet transactions. E-commerce merchants can readily add in their websites the ability to receive Globe Gcash payments from their millions customers’ mobile phones.”
Rizza Maniego-Eala, president of G-Xchange, said: “This partnership will enable online businesses and entrepreneurs to easily integrate into their websites the power of an online-mobile payment facility that includes Gcash.”