Alipay, China’s major third-party payment service, announced it will start charging fees for transferring more than 20,000 yuan ($3,000) to bank accounts.
The new policy that takes effect on Oct. 12 said Alipay users need to pay a fee of 0.1 percent when they transfer money from the app’s built-in digital wallet to a bank account.
Run by Alibaba’s financial affiliate Ant Financial, the popular app now enables users to make inter-bank transfers and to Alipay accounts free of charge.
Alipay is not the first e-wallet to charge fees. In March, popular mobile messaging software WeChat also began charging 0.1 percent for money transfers over 1,000 yuan.