Customers of Rakuten in Germany and Austria can use Yapital to pay at the online checkout.
Rakuten online mega shopping mall has over 90 million customers worldwide, with over 7,000 merchants are represented on the German Rakuten platform alone. Due to the central ordering and payment process of the online marketplace, customers can now use the Yapital app on their smartphone to pay for products.
“What fascinates me about Rakuten is the way in which the company with its thousands of partners has consistently put the shopping experience first for many years,” says Nils Winkler, CEO of Yapital. “Shopping should simply be fun. Rakuten is implementing this perfectly – and so is Yapital.”
“Rakuten increasingly lives up to its claim to be the most interesting shopping mall on the Internet – a place where customers can go for a stroll, discover new products and be inspired,” says Dr. Christian Macht, CEO of Rakuten Deutschland. “Paying with Yapital fits in perfectly with our approach to always offer the best possibilities to our customers.”
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