Changi Airport Group to launch integrated QR payment apps

The integrated payment platform will allow retailers to accept e-wallets such as GrabPay, Liquid Pay, Singtel Dash, and PayNow.

Changi Airport Group has entered into an agreement with regional mobile payment services firm Liquid Group to roll out the integrated acceptance of multiple major QR payment apps by merchants located across all four terminals at Changi Airport, an announcement revealed.

The integrated payment platform by Liquid Group will allow retailers at Changi Airport to accept e-wallets such as GrabPay, Liquid Pay, Singtel Dash, Ezi Wallet and PayNow QR bank payment apps, as well as international payment app partners such as WeChat Pay, UnionPay and Alipay.

Liquid Group’s payment platform will roll out a unified point-of-sales (POS) for QR payments that enable merchants to accept multiple local and international QR payment apps using a single device. Participating Changi Airport retailers can accept multiple QR payment apps without additional infrastructure, integration or cashier training when Liquid Group and Changi Airport expand the network to include additional local, overseas and card scheme QR payment apps.

The agreement is expected to provide more partnership opportunities with local and overseas e-wallet issuers, according to Teo Chew Hoon, group senior VP at Changi Airport Group. “In addition, the unified QR payment platform will improve our tenant’s productivity in the areas of staff training, reporting and settlement for QR payments,” she said. 

Changi is the world’s seventh busiest airport for international traffic with over 65 million passenger movements.

The roll-out of the new payment platform will be in phases, with the first phase slated to commence in H1 2019.