Today, Alipay officially launched "Alipay AI Collection" to help merchants and individual developers provide commercial services through AI Agents such as OpenClaw (commonly known as "Lobster"), and realize instant collection on a call basis. It is worth mentioning that this is Alipay’s further layout in the field of smart payment after the launch of “AI payment”.
For example, after a user installs a Skill, he says to "Lobster", "Help me sort out the latest AI industry analysis report." "Lobster" initiates a resource request and inquiry to the server, and gives the user feedback that "you need to pay 0.02 yuan to get the results." After the user downloads and installs the "Alipay AI Payment" Skill, authorizes and completes the payment, he can obtain resource services.
This product has been listed in the A2A transaction area of Alipay's official website (https://aipay.alipay.com/), and the access process has been compressed to three steps: sign in, create an application, and install the SDK, which can trigger price inquiry and settlement every time it is called by the AI Agent.
It is worth mentioning that as of December 31, individual developers can also enjoy 0 rate for use.
In addition, merchants who have used Alipay to acquire orders can directly connect their service skills to AI agents such as "Lobster" to automatically complete payment after users issue instructions and place orders, without the need to re-build the acquiring tool.