PayPal says it will enable QR code payments with WeChat Pay as early as the fourth quarter of this year.

Jinse Finance reported that at the 2025 PayPal China Cross-border E-commerce Conference held this afternoon in Shenzhen, Su Lei, Head of Sales for PayPal China, and Tony Yu, Senior Manager and Head of the China Technical Integration Partner Team at PayPal, stated in an interview with a Cailian Press reporter that as early as the fourth quarter of this year, PayPal World will enable QR code payment functionality with WeChat Pay (i.e., PayPal users will be able to make payments by scanning WeChat Pay QR codes), thereby achieving interoperability in the cross-border payment sector. When asked by the reporter whether there would be similar collaborations with other domestic Chinese payment companies besides WeChat Pay, the aforementioned representatives responded, "We have always maintained an open attitude when selecting partners."