Mobile phones have become not just a means of communication, but also a tool for payment. This article will tell you how to pay for purchases on Aliexpress using your mobile phone.
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Relatively recently, the Chinese online store Aliexpress began working with Russian buyers. One of the innovations aimed at making payment more convenient is support for mobile payments. Let's talk about what Aliexpress mobile payment is.
general information
Paying for purchases using a mobile phone is not yet very popular, primarily because few people deposit such amounts on their phone. However, this opportunity is provided by each operator.
Although, concluding agreements with banks and payment systems is not the only reason. Many people still remember when companies signed up customers for various services in every possible way. Therefore, it is difficult to inspire trust. In this way it was decided to return him.
Aliexpress management is not used to doing drastic things. If they decide it's time to introduce mobile payments, then they really need it. In addition to big cities, there are many small towns throughout Russia where there are no popular banks. But there is the Internet and people who want to receive parcels. Everyone has cell phones.
Therefore, the company took a completely logical step and implemented the ability to pay from a mobile phone.
Advantages and disadvantages of mobile payment
Paying with a mobile phone has several advantages:
- It is not necessary to be the owner of a bank card
- Payments are made securely
- Payment is received quickly and payment can be made at home
There are also disadvantages of payment:
- Big commission
- You need to have a large amount in your account
Payment fee
When paying this way, you will additionally be charged:
- MTS - 0.95%
- Beeline - 3.9%
- Megafon - 1.95%
- Tele2 - 2.45%
As you can see, MTS has the lowest commission, so it is the most profitable to pay from it.
How do I get a refund if I cancel an order or have a dispute?
If an order is canceled or a dispute is resolved in your favor, according to the store’s policy, the funds are returned to the place from which the payment was transferred. In the case of mobile payment, this is your phone balance. Exceptional cases are if you have an account in AliPay, then in the settings you set the option to receive funds to this wallet.
Regardless of the reason for the return, funds are transferred within 7-10 business days. If the period has already expired and there is no money, then contact support.
How to pay for orders via mobile phone?
To pay for your order via mobile phone, at the last step when purchasing, select the “Other payment methods” - “Mobile payment” section. Indicate your mobile operator and enter the phone number. Now let's talk about the ordering process in more detail.
Before you start paying, make sure that you have enough money in your account, taking into account the commission, and if necessary, top up your balance to the required amount.
Then you can proceed directly to the purchase.
By the way, since we are talking about a mobile application, you can read about how to use it.
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1. General information
Paying for goods and services using a cell phone in Russia has not yet become widespread, primarily because few people keep significant amounts of money on their phone balance. However, the possibility of mobile payments is provided by all major Russian mobile operators, for which they have concluded agreements with banks and payment systems, and have also created the necessary information infrastructure.
However, the reason mentioned above is not the only one - many well remember the “exploits” of the so-called content providers, who several years ago, by hook or by crook, massively signed up subscribers for paid services. The mistrust generated by the lawlessness of those years is difficult to erase from the memory of compatriots.
AliExpress management does not take rash steps. If AliExpress decided that the time for mobile payments in Russia has come, then it has come. In addition to megacities, tens of thousands of small settlements live and survive in Russia, in which there have never been branches of leading banks (and the post office is huddled in a rickety wooden building), but by some miracle there is the Internet and residents who want to receive cherished parcels from the Middle Kingdom. Almost everyone has cell phones these days, thank goodness for progress.
Clearly understanding the Russian specifics and the true meaning of the euphemism “new economic reality,” the management of AliExpress took a logical step - it decided to implement payment for orders directly from the accounts of cellular subscribers, and in partnership with the “Big Four” - MTS, Beeline, Megafon and Tele2 - the platform implemented planned. It is curious that a year after the launch of the new payment method, the number of mobile operators that supported it has not expanded, which means that subscribers of Yota, SMARTS and a handful of virtual operators are still unable to pay for orders on AliExpress from their phones.
2. Advantages of paying on AliExpress from your phone
Paying on AliExpress using your cell phone has several unique advantages:
- you don’t need a bank card, and you don’t need the bank itself either;
- safe - no one will “steal” the number and CVV code of a bank card;
- payment is made quickly and there is no need to go anywhere (as is the case with cash payments).
3. Disadvantages of paying on AliExpress from your phone
There are also disadvantages of paying from your phone on AliExpress, and they are obvious:
- commission, and quite high;
- the need to keep a larger than usual amount on the subscriber account.
4. Commission when paying on AliExpress from your phone
At the time of writing, the following commission rates were in effect for mobile payments to AliExpress (please note that the commission amount may change over time):
- MTS - 0.95%;
- Beeline - 3.9%;
- Megafon - 1.95%;
- Tele2 - 2.45%.
As you can see, the most generous on this list is MTS, and the greediest is Beeline.
5. Refund in case of order cancellation or dispute
If an order is canceled or a dispute is resolved in favor of the buyer, according to AliExpress rules, funds are returned to the source of the original payment. In the case of mobile payment, this is the balance of the buyer's phone. The exception is the case when the buyer is registered in the AliPay system, and the option to accept refunds to the AliPay wallet is set in the account settings.
Regardless of the reason for the refund, refunds will be credited within 7-10 business days. If this period is exceeded, please contact AliEpxress support.
6. How to pay for an order on AliExpress from your phone
To pay for an order on AliExpress from a mobile phone, at the last step of placing an order, select “Other payment methods” → “Mobile payment” as a payment method, specify the cellular operator and enter the phone number. Let's look at the entire ordering and payment process in more detail.
Before paying, you should make sure that you have enough money on your phone balance to pay for the order. including commission, if necessary, top up the balance to the required amount.
To check your balance status, use the balance check service call numbers:
- MTS - *100#
- Beeline - *102#
- Megafon - *100#
- Tele2 - *105#
After making sure that you have sufficient funds on your phone balance, you can start purchasing.
The author of this note, regardless of the order amount, always uses cashback services to subsequently return part of the money spent. You can read more about this on the page dedicated to cashback. This time we will use the cashback service Cash4Brands, it is ideal for inexpensive purchases due to the absence of a minimum withdrawal amount and the fastest cashback accrual.
So, select the AliExpress store on Cash4Brands and... go to the store.
We find the desired product (by searching or in “My Desires”, if you added it there earlier - a very convenient function, by the way) and click the “Add to cart” button. Basically, if your order consists of one product, you can click the “Buy Now” button and proceed directly to checkout.
Go to the cart, carefully check its contents and click the “Place an order” button.
On the “Checkout” page we check the delivery address and order details. If everything is in order, click the “Place an order” button.
On the payment page, if there were previously purchases paid with a bank card, you will be asked to pay with it, but in this case this method does not suit us, so we click the link “Pay by card or other methods.”
Select the “Mobile payment” tab, click on the button with the name and logo of the desired cellular operator (in this case - Tele2) and indicate the phone number (the starting “+7” does not need to be entered, only the operator code and the seven-digit number are filled in - as in the screenshot ), then click the “Send SMS” button.
All further actions must be performed on a cell phone, and their sequence depends on the cellular operator. So, for Tele2 you need to send an SMS message with one digit to number 3116. For other operators the procedure may be different, but, in any case, it must be clearly described in the incoming SMS message. It is important to understand that the mobile payment process occurs only using phone, you do not need to perform any further actions on the AliExpress website.
By the way, don’t pay attention to the date from the distant past - the clock on your phone just reset.
By sending an SMS message, the user agrees with the offer posted on the official website of the mobile operator (a link to it is provided in the incoming message). Of course, I'm too lazy to read it. The author of the note really hopes that he has not pledged his soul to the devil.
A new incoming SMS message happily reports to us about the successful completion of a mobile payment to AliExpress.
The same is indicated by the letter sent by AliExpress by email, as well as the “Payment is being verified” status of the paid order. By the way, the payment will be verified within the next 24 hours.
If you go to the order page, on the “Payment” tab, in the “Payment method” column, “Mobile payment” will appear.
So we paid for the order on AliExpress from a mobile phone - nothing complicated, right? Paying from your phone for purchases on AliExpress is convenient, although not as profitable as using a bank card.
What about cashback? Let's check it now. Yeah, here it is, our order - the cashback service received information about it from AliExpress (albeit not immediately, but after a few hours) and is awaiting confirmation. After two weeks, the accrued cashback will be ready for payment.
7. Errors when paying for orders on AliExpress from your phone
SMS message does not arrive after clicking the “Send SMS” button
Most likely, the reason is simple - the phone number was entered incorrectly. If the number is correct, the source of the problem is most likely on the cellular operator's side. Contact your mobile operator's support service or try paying from a different phone.
After payment, an SMS message was received: “The payment was successful. Wait for your order to be delivered”, but the order status is still “Waiting for payment”
Information about mobile payments is not received instantly by AliExpress, but with some delay. If the order status does not change within 24 hours, contact AliExpress support.
After sending an SMS message to confirm the payment, the response comes: “There are not enough funds on the phone account”
There really are not enough funds in the account (for example, you did not take into account the commission and the minimum balance - 10 rubles for MTS, Megafon and Tele2 subscribers or 50 rubles for Beeline subscribers). By the way, usually funds received during promotions (for example, using “Thank you from Sberbank” bonuses) cannot be used to make mobile payments.
After sending an SMS message to confirm the payment, a response is received: “The payment did not go through. Refusal to debit funds from account"
Mobile payments are prohibited for your SIM card. There are several possible reasons. Thus, mobile payments are not available for new subscribers and subscribers using corporate tariffs. Finally, you yourself could ban them and forget about it;)
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Thousands of residents from different parts of the world make purchases. To ensure that more users can pay for their orders without any problems, the site provides a large selection of payment methods. The most popular methods remain a bank card and an electronic wallet. Orders can also be paid in cash. Recently, another interesting method has become available on the site - paying for an order from a mobile account.
First of all, this payment method is suitable for those who live in remote and sparsely populated areas. If a resident has a bank card on which some kind of payment is received monthly, then he will be able to pay for purchases without any problems, no matter where he is. The main thing is to have Internet access. But if the user does not have a card or the card needs to be constantly replenished, then he will need a bank branch, which is unlikely to be in a remote locality. In addition, residents of such settlements cannot even pay for an order in cash through the post office (most likely, the post office will be located in an old abandoned building, without modern equipment). You can completely forget about mobile phone stores and terminals. But the mobile network reaches almost everywhere. Almost everyone has a mobile phone. So now even a user from the remotest hinterland can make a purchase using a mobile phone.
This method has two significant drawbacks:
- You will have to pay a fee.
- There should be a decent amount in your account. It is also worth considering that an amount slightly larger than indicated on the site will be withdrawn from your account, since you need to pay a commission.
Which mobile operators allow you to pay for Aliexpress orders via phone?
Only residents of the Russian Federation can pay for orders using a mobile account. List of mobile operators:
- MTS. Commission – 0.95%. The maximum amount you can spend on purchases per day is 30 thousand rubles. The maximum number of purchases per day is 5.
- Beeline. Commission – 3.9%. The maximum amount per day is 15 thousand rubles. The maximum number of transactions per day is 10.
- Megaphone. Commission – 1.95%. The maximum amount per month is 30 thousand rubles.
- Tele 2. Commission – 2.45%. The maximum amount for one purchase is 1000 rubles.
How to pay for an order on Aliexpress via phone
First, you need to log in to the website to make a purchase. Go to the cart and click on “Order from this seller” or select a product and click on “Buy now”. This will take us to the checkout page. First we will need to indicate the delivery address. At the next stage, we will need to clarify the details and choose a payment method. A window will open for us to enter card data. Since we are interested in paying using a mobile phone, on the top right side we click on “Other payment methods”.
If you have previously made a purchase, then when you click on “Buy now or “Order from this seller”, you will be taken to the checkout page with the correct address and the latest payment method. For example, if you paid for your order with a card, its number will be displayed. Therefore, to select a payment method via phone, select “Other payment methods”. After confirming the action, a window will open for you to enter your bank card data (as described above). Select “Other payment methods” on the top right side.
From the list of other payment methods, select “Mobile payment”.
If you did everything correctly, you will receive an SMS as a result. All further actions will need to be performed using your phone. Depending on the operator, the text of the message will indicate what to do next. But basically, all operators have the same principle - send a digital code to a specific number. If there are enough funds in your account to pay for the purchase, then after sending the code to the specified number, you will receive another SMS message indicating that the payment was successful.
Despite the fact that payment using a mobile phone has not gained universal popularity, for some people it is the only opportunity to make a purchase on . Therefore, this payment method is necessary like other methods.
Happy shopping everyone!
Aliexpress is a Chinese website for goods from all over the world. Payment for products is often made through a bank card or e-wallet, but we will tell you how to pay for an order on Aliexpress via phone. You can purchase almost any product on the site - clothes, bags, cosmetics, jewelry, stationery, equipment, toys and much more, and the prices are usually wholesale, that is, lower than those at which goods are sold in retail. So, how to pay on Aliexpress using a mobile phone?
After you have studied the product catalog and decided on a purchase, you will have a question - how to buy on Aliexpress from your phone and is it possible? The sequence of actions is as follows:
- Register on the site.
- Specify the country and currency, after which Aliexpress will automatically convert prices into the specified currency. Choose language.
- Under each product its full characteristics are indicated, including the manufacturer and reviews of those who have already purchased it.
- Choose a delivery method, the cheapest is Chinese Post.
- Choose how to pay for the goods - this could be a bank card, an electronic money system, and, more recently, an account on your phone.
- You can track your paid order through your account; it will indicate at what geographical stage your product is located. Delivery usually takes several weeks.
Paying for a purchase on Aliexpress through a mobile phone account is quite simple. Two years ago, the site did not even provide for such payment. Now this opportunity has appeared, which has made shopping easier for people who do not have bank cards, but have mobile phones. You can purchase goods on Ali using a mobile phone, provided that you have a service package from one of the following companies: MTS, Beeline, Megafon and Tele2. Unfortunately, Aliexpress does not plan to expand cooperation with other mobile communication companies in the near future. The reason for this, as well as the significant difference in the fees charged by mobile operators, is not explained.
Attention! How to fill in the address on Aliexpress? All data is filled out in Russian, but in transliteration. In order to correctly translate Russian words into transliteration, so that your goods and money do not go in an unknown direction, use online services.
Benefits of paying via mobile phone bill:
1. security - no one sees or uses your bank card;
2. no need for a bank account or electronic wallet;
3. efficiency and the ability to pay anywhere in the country, including not only large cities and megalopolises, but also small towns.
Disadvantages of paying via mobile account:
1. commission depends on the operator and can be quite disappointing (MTS - 0.95%; Beeline - 3.9%; Megafon - 1.95%; Tele2 - 2.45%);
2. the need to have an active significant amount of money in the account;
3. Dependence on the quality of communication and the status of your SIM card.
Step-by-step instruction
Before paying for purchases on the Aliexpress website from your mobile phone, make sure that you have enough money in your account by entering the combination:
- if you are a Beeline user, then dial *102#;
- Megaphone lover - *100#;
- loyal to MTS - *100#;
- Tele2 user - *105#.
If you have enough money, you have chosen a product and are ready to place an order, then follow these steps:
- We find the product that you need or simply liked in the catalog on the website and indicate “Add to cart” or “Buy immediately” if you purchase one thing.
- On the “Place an order” page, all order details and the correctness of the address are checked. We indicate “Place an order”.
- Next, click the “Pay by card or other methods” tab, because payment via mobile phone is implied in “other methods”.
- We indicate “Mobile payment”, in the window that appears, click on the logo of your mobile communication company, enter your phone number accurately and with the code, then click “Send SMS”. The mobile payment procedure will be described in detail in the incoming SMS.
- You will perform further actions on your phone. The sequence of actions depends on your mobile operator, there are slight differences. For example, for the Tele2 operator you need to send an SMS with the number to “3116”.
- In response, you will need to send an SMS in which you agree with the offer, i.e., with the proposal to conclude an agreement. You can see the offer on the official website of your mobile service. You will also see the link in your incoming SMS.
- A new incoming SMS will inform you that the mobile payment to Ali has been completed successfully. The letter sent to you by email from Aliexpress will inform you of the same. The status of the selected and paid item will become “Payment is being verified.” The verification process is carried out within 12 hours - 24 hours.
What are the errors and problems when paying via mobile?
The most common failures in the payment procedure are as follows:
- SMS does not arrive after clicking “Send SMS”. You could hastily enter the wrong phone number, make a mistake in the number or operator code. If you entered the number correctly, then the source of the problem is in the connection. You need to contact a polite operator of your mobile phone or simply pay for the goods from another mobile phone.
- Having already paid, the following message comes to the phone: “Payment was successful. Wait for your order to be delivered”, but your purchase status is “awaiting payment”, not delivery. Money is not always credited instantly, especially in bad weather and in areas where there are problems with mobile communications. If after twenty-four hours of your patient waiting the order status remains the same, contact aliexpress support and the problem should be resolved.
- After sending the SMS, a response is received stating that there is not enough money in the account. You haven't checked your phone balance first and you really don't have enough money. Or maybe you didn’t take into account the operator’s commission or the money on your balance was received thanks to a promotion, and it’s not suitable for paying for goods.
- After sending the SMS, you receive a response that the payment did not go through and you are denied the debit of funds from your mobile account. It is possible that your SIM card may be prohibited from making mobile payments for various reasons. The solution is to call the same operator and find out what the status of your SIM card is.
It happens that none of the proposed solutions to problems eliminates the cause, and you cannot pay for your purchase on the Ali website from your mobile account. Then it’s better for you to switch to other, older and more proven, methods of remote payment - a bank card or electronic wallets, which, by the way, are convenient to manage using a mobile phone.
One of Ali’s regular clients advises: “Don’t want to pay a commission and often have communication problems? Select a Qiwi wallet, topping it up via mobile phone. They personally do this - I transfer money from Beeline to a Qiwi account, there is no commission! You just need to send a confirmation SMS, which is also free by the way. Then payment for goods on Ali is carried out directly from the Qiwi wallet.”
Using the popular Chinese shopping platform and paying for purchases from your mobile phone is simple and convenient! You can order the necessary things at wholesale prices. Most importantly, do not forget to take into account the time for delivery of goods and order in advance. When buying clothes and shoes, be careful when choosing the size, look at reviews and recommendations. The main thing is that you have a SIM card from one of the mobile operators with which Ali has a cooperation agreement, enough money in your account and no problems with communication and the service package.
