SEATTLE—Amazon has partnered with Western Union to set up a service called PayCode that lets people shop and pay for items on Amazon.com using local currencies that would not have been accepted on the site before.
The partnership starts with services in 10 countries: Chile, Columbia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand, according to TechCrunch.
“Specifically, shoppers in these markets will now be able to go into Western Union outposts and pay for their Amazon purchases in cash, which also means that payment cards or other virtual payment methods will also not be required to buy from Amazon—one of the barriers to expanding the service up to now into more emerging economies, where card and bank account penetration is much lower than in developed markets like the U.S. and Europe,” Tech Crunch said.