Alibaba’s Fliggy enters home-sharing pen with Xiaozhu

After striking a deal with agoda, China’s largest online home-sharing marketplace Xiaozhu.com is now partnering Alibaba Group’s travel brand Fliggy to provide users with what it says is the first post-pay service in the home-sharing industry.

The agreement will additionally see Xiaozhu share its inventory with Fliggy, which is set to launch its new home-sharing channel in May.

Backed by “Xinyongzhu”, which scores user credit history based on big data and Alipay’s credit system, users will enjoy “deposit-free post-pay” service with payment automatically settled within 24 hours after checkout. All listings on the Xiaozhu platform, including overseas ones, will support this service in batches.

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