WeChat and EasyTaxi team up for taxi bookings in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Nearly five months after the initial tie-up in Singapore, today WeChat and EasyTaxi announced that its partnership is rolling out to Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Starting today, WeChat users in those three countries can flag a taxi inside the messaging app.

People can do this by adding EasyTaxi’s official WeChat account inside the chat app (Malaysia: easytaximy; Thailand: EasyTaxiThailand; the Philippines: EasyTaxi_PH).

The Singapore pilot program seemed to be popular, with 5,000 cab rides on EasyTaxi booked through WeChat in the first two weeks.

EasyTaxi and WeChat are running various promotional discounts in the three new countries to entice people to grab a cab in this new way.

There’s still no online booking system within WeChat for users outside of mainland China, so these cab rides will have to be paid for using EasyTaxi’s system.

WeChat, which has 468 million monthly active users, expanded into mobile commerce and online payments in China earlier this year, but all those advanced features are not available to overseas users of Tencent’s messaging app.

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