# UnionPay

https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/unionpay/

*Last updated: 2026-08-03*

China’s card scheme, and also a QR rail — Chinese customers use it both ways, and enabling only the card side leaves the other half unserved. It is the scheme Singapore merchants most often forget to enable.

## Why it matters to a merchant

The one that is two things at once, and merchants regularly have one without the other. A counter that accepts UnionPay cards has not necessarily been enabled for UnionPay QR, and a customer holding the app rather than the card will find that out at the till. Confirming both is a single question at onboarding.

## Related terms

*The methods themselves*

- [PayNow](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/paynow/)
- [Dynamic PayNow](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/dynamic-paynow/)
- [Static PayNow](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/static-paynow/)
- [SGQR](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/sgqr/)
- [Alipay+](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/alipay-plus/)
- [WeChat Pay](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/wechat-pay/)
- [E-wallet](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/wallet/)
- [NETS](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/nets/)
- [FAST](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/fast/)

- [All 74 terms](https://www.uniwebpay.com/glossary/)

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