Connectivity during COVID-19 is crucial, GCash CEO says

The pandemic has changed virtually everything -- especially the way people work.

With the firm directive to “stay at home,” individuals and companies alike have come up with different schemes to continue operations—from furniture companies, delivery services, and telecom services—every business in the country are trying to find new ways to cope with the “new normal.” 

1.3 M Filipinos boost green movement with GCash Forest

Growing a tree is grand work: it requires grit, a whole lot of TLC, and exceptional skills to keep it alive.

But green thumb or not, over 1.3 million Filipinos are now putting their tap-happy fingers to work to help the country increase its forest cover through GCash Forest, a special feature on the GCash app that strives to boost reforestation efforts while building a cashless nation.

GCash Forest allows users to grow virtual trees that will have real-life counterparts at the Ipo Watershed, a source of Metro Manila’s critical water supply that is losing forest cover at an alarming rate.

A personal carbon tracker, GCash Forest keeps tabs of how much emission subscribers have avoided by choosing greener activities, which have corresponding “green energy” points that accumulate when done frequently.

Puregold, GCash launch cash-in, payment via barcode

Industry leaders Puregold, Globe and GCash have worked together to launch another innovative mobile-based service that will enhance their customers’ experience nationwide—the Cash-In via Barcode and Payment via Barcode.

The two services will be available in 368 Puregold branches all over the country, marking another milestone in the partnership between the three companies who have pioneered digital innovations in retail, telecommunications and financial technology in the Philippines. 

GCash Assures Security With Customer Protection Measures

With the growing number of users of digital payments and transactions, there is also the growing concern on how to make them secure. But not everyone is technical enough that some may fall to traps of phishing and malicious sources. There are also instances when mobile phones got stolen or lost that makes its a risk of using them to transact using their identity.

These have been the concerns of that GCash also wants to assure its users as they use the app for various transactions. They recently launched  Customer Protect program that will address the concerns regarding fraud, and malicious transactions.

GCash for Good lends an ear to the needs of deaf students

True to its aim of building a community of givers through its GCash for Good campaign, the Philippines’ leading mobile wallet has partnered with the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies (SDEAS) to provide the needs of the school’s deaf students.

GCash now counts the SDEAS among the non-profit organizations in its GCash for Good community, giving the school its own QR code to facilitate donations for its students and programs.

Get P100 Off at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf with GCash QR Scan to Pay

Alipay customers will also be able to use Alipay QR at participating branches

Coming into the holiday season, the country’s leading mobile wallet provider GCash have partnered up with The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (CBTL) to enable customers to be able to scan to pay with the GCash App. Instead of paying in cash, all a customer needs to do is open the GCash App, point their smartphone’s camera at the GCash QR code located at a partner merchant’s counter, and input the amount to pay to settle the transaction.

On top of being able to pay with the GCash App, CBTL is also one of the first coffee chains in the nation to support Alipay QR payments, letting international customers who have the Alipay App installed on their phones to be able to pay as well. This feature is currently available in select branches, with all others to follow this year.