Sunmi Cloud & App store – 2017 data Report

We are very proud to announce that Sunmi App Store exceed 3000 apps now! Sunmi App store now is the biggest app store for commercial apps.

By 2017, Sunmi Cloud includes 4430 app developers and more than 3000 apps. Moreover, our apps have been downloaded over 3,000,000 times. Our application market is growing continuously and we have the largest numbers of business scenarios apps worldwide.

The key success of Sunmi Cloud is because we have a stable and secure system. Our cloud has been recognized by plenty of app developers and has attract a large groups of payment companies and software enterprises. In the year of 2017, the number of Sunmi partners was growing rapidly. At the beginning of 2017, we only have 1374 partners’ accounts but we reached to 4430 developers by the end of December.

Our application market contains most of the business scenarios including retail, restaurant, tool, payment, e-commerce, food delivery, logistics, travel, financial, electronic invoice, group buying and hospitality. Various apps from business scenarios lead Sunmi meet the demands for most of clients and merchants.

At the beginning of 2017, there were only 876 apps in Sunmi application market while by the end of 2017, the number of apps increased by 343% to 3004 apps.

All of Sunmi devices (V1, T1, M1, P1 & D1) can be registered under a sunmi cloud account. For specific, the majority of Sunmi cloud accounts are registered with V1. Sunmi V1 as our first handheld device include scanning and printing which is very popular for restaurants to receiving order and it supports QR code payment. Sunmi has become the Android POS leader in 3 months because the market share of V1 is huge.

The apps from app store has been downloaded over 3,000,000 times. Food delivery, payment restaurant and tool apps were the most popular.

In the year of 2017, Sunmi Devices has spread to 83 countries across the world including Russia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Brazil, South Africa, Dubai, etc.

Our devices have been sold in most cities and regions across China including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, etc.

From the Sunmi Cloud and App Store annual report, it is clear that we have great achievements in the year of 2017. We have attracted thousands of app developers. We have all kinds of apps that was designed for different business scenarios and our apps has been recognized by clients, merchants and our partners.

The purpose of this report is to make app developers, software providers, and distributors to know about Sunmi Cloud and our app store. Sunmi Cloud will make valuable for your work and business. We really appreciate all of our partners and we wish you to join us!

How Chinese mobile payments is going global ?

While mobile payments have been off to a slow start in most of the Western world—even the rollout of EMV chip payments in the United States is far behind schedule—China has become the melting pot for mobile payment solutions.

Sunmi-partner of WeChat Pay and Alipay

The mobile payment space has become fiercely competitive, with both market leader Alibaba and messaging giant WeChat scrambling for valuable market share. However, what was once a strictly domestic affair has expanded abroad, with China’s mobile payment providers now battling for Chinese tourists’ mobile payments on the global stage.

For overseas destinations, hotels, retailers, restaurants, and tourist attractions, this makes the Chinese payment landscape a lot more complicated than it used to be. Until recently, accepting payments through the Chinese government-backed UnionPay interbank network used to be the gold standard for payments made by Chinese tourists. Indeed, updating the points of sale terminal (POS) to accept UnionPay and slapping a UnionPay sticker on the front door was all that was needed to reach the forefront of Chinese payment implementation.

Which hardware to support Chinese mobile payments global expansion ?

The good news is that, given the fierce competition between WeChat Pay (Tencent) and Alipay (Ant Financial  Alibaba Group ), Chinese mobile payment providers are now doing their best to rapidly expand overseas by implementing a wide range of local partnerships. As partner of Wechat Pay and Alipay, Sunmi plays a key role in the business expansion.

First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology, and Alipay, one of the world’s leading online payment platforms, today announced that North American businesses will be able to accept the mobile payment service and expand Alipay’s already significant business base. First Data will implement Alipay at the point-of-sale for its four million U.S. business clients.

Citcon, an integrated mobile payment and marketing platform to connect global merchants with Chinese travelers, announces partnership with WeChat, China’s leading mobile social communications service with 846 million active users run by Tencent Holdings. As the first payment partner of WeChat in North America, Citcon will enable millions of businesses to accept WeChat Pay, one of China’s most popular mobile payment methods.

Now merchants will be able to accept WeChat Pay via Citcon’s smart mobile point-of-sale (Sunmi V1), easy-to-integrate API and software products and optimize growth both online and offline, with an easy and affordable rate compared to credit card processing.

 

Source:
Technode
FirstData
Citcon
Alizila