ASIA United Bank (AUB) announced it has expanded its collaboration with a Globe Telecom Inc. subsidiary to boost digitization efforts among merchants and online sellers in the country.
The bank said on Monday that the partnership was made between AUB’s online order acceptance solution PayMate BOTTY and the new GLife inside the GCash e-wallet app. GCash is being operated by Globe subsidiary Globe Fintech Innovations Inc. (GFII).
AUB First Vice President and Cards and Acquiring Business Group Head Magdalena V. Surtida said the partnership will enable existing PayMate BOTTY merchants to offer their products and services in GLife.
AUB launched PayMate BOTTY, an online order acceptance solution, to enable merchants to accept orders and digital payments via web, Facebook and Facebook Messenger. With PayMate BOTTY, merchants can display their digital menu, take orders, accept digital payments, and integrate these with delivery for a seamless online order fulfilment.
GLife is GCash’s new feature that integrates mini apps from multiple brands inside the GCash dashboard to make transactions and payments with trusted merchant partners just made easier. “With GLife, one of the newest services offered by GCash, our PayMate BOTTY merchants can now also do fully automated selling via the GCash app, in addition to via Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and their website”, Surtida said.
“Through GLife, we are bringing the merchants closer to our 40 million GCash customer base. Our customers do not need to use another app to order food or retail goods. With GLife, we want to cater to a wide variety of merchants representing lifestyle brands, restaurants, service providers, and specialty stores. Our program partnership and integration with PayMate BOTTY will bring more merchants to GLife,” GFII President and CEO Martha Sazon said.
The AUB-GFII partnership started in 2019 when AUB became GFII’s first banking partner in merchant acquiring.
“This is aligned with our shared aspiration to digitally close the gap between the GCash users and AUB PayMate merchants,” AUB President Manuel A. Gomez said.