UnionPay Online Payments (UPOP) is a solution that enables merchants in countries such as China, New Zealand, and Australia to extend their e-commerce stores to accept UnionPay payments.
With more than 5 billion cards supported in over 140 countries, UnionPay is one of the world's leading payment schemes. UnionPay Online Payments (UPOP) is the payment method provided by UnionPay for cardholders to use when shopping online.
UPOP provides a secure shopping environment for UnionPay cardholders and is supported by more than 50 Chinese financial institutions that issue UnionPay cards.
UnionPay cards have an extensive network, especially in China and other Asian countries. They are also issued in more than 40 countries, including Hong Kong, South Korea, and Russia. UnionPay cards are accepted at 2.5 million ATMs and 32 million merchants worldwide. There are more than 600 institution and bank partnerships.
Can UnionPay cards be used in the Turkish market?
Yes, they can.
In recent years, the growth in spending abroad by tourists from the Far East triggered the use of UnionPay in Turkey as well. Infrastructure work to enable UnionPay cards to be used at ATMs and POS terminals within Turkey's borders was launched by BKM (the Interbank Card Center) in 2013 with the signing of a cooperation agreement, and the related work was completed in 2014. After the infrastructure work was completed, the first integration with UnionPay-branded cards was carried out by Isbank. This integration involved enabling UnionPay cards to be processed through Isbank's ATMs. As a result, UnionPay cards began to be accepted at Isbank ATMs across Turkey.
In 2015, through a partnership between UnionPay and Isbank, it became possible to accept payments with UnionPay cards on e-commerce sites by accessing the UnionPay Online Payment system (UPOP) directly through Isbank's Virtual POS.
Currently, the majority of banks accept UnionPay cards at their POS terminals and ATMs.
