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Payment Practice

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The rule behind the split

主扫 is you scanning the shop; 被扫 is the shop scanning you

Under ¥200 the published wallet fee is ¥0. Above ¥200, 3% applies to the whole charge — which is why the practice offers a split into pieces below the line. The pieces are ¥199 rather than ¥200, because the published wording is “under ¥200” and “above ¥200”, and ¥200 exactly is the one amount it does not place on either side. A shop has to accept more than one charge for a split to work.

Your own bank can still add its own fee on top, and the practice does not model that. When a terminal offers to charge you in your home currency, decline it and leave the charge in yuan.

Weixin Pay help centre — international cards: https://help.wechat.com/cgi-bin/micromsg-bin/oshelpcenter?Channel=helpcenter&id=2307252mur7f2307257zfyfe&lang=en&opcode=2&plat=ios
Chaoyang District — overseas cards on Weixin Pay and Alipay: https://english.bjchy.gov.cn/overseas-bank-cards-accepted-weixin-pay-and-alipay

Last verified 27 Sep 2026.

The Chaoyang page was read on this date and states the rule above in those terms. The Weixin Pay help page renders its answer in the browser, so it is linked rather than quoted — open it to read the same line from the first party.

Published single-payment caps disagree: the Chaoyang page cites ¥6,000 for one transaction, ¥50,000 a month and ¥60,000 a year, and other Weixin pages cite ¥6,500 for one. Those caps apply to different account levels. Read the limit shown in the app, not a single figure from this page.

The rehearsal never contacts WeChat, Alipay or a bank. No card number is asked for, and there is no field here that could take one.