Chapter 290 Payment Method

Universal Building.

12th floor.

Liu Hong led Li Dong and Sun Tao to visit the computer room in the front, and introduced: "We are now using a server cluster method, and will be equipped with one main server and six backup servers. When the main server fails..."

Li Dong and Sun Tao listened very seriously.

Although Li Dong is a reborn person, his understanding of computers is only limited to playing games and chatting.

Li Dong didn't understand many of the proper names that Liu Hong mentioned, but that didn't prevent him from understanding.

After Liu Hong talked for a while, Li Dong asked, "How many people can be online at the same time?"

Liu Hong explained: "It depends on the situation. If it's just a simple text tour, millions of people are not a problem. But shopping websites mainly need image caching..."

Liu Hong said a lot, and Li Dong and Sun Tao scratched their heads.

Shen Qian, who was next to him, interjected: "What Team Leader Liu means is that if Taobao's model is followed, it will probably be able to support 200,000 people browsing the webpage at the same time without freezing the screen."

"Two hundred thousand people?"

Li Dong was a little dissatisfied with this statistic. In his previous life, there were millions of people online, and he played dynamic games, and he didn't see how difficult it was.

Now Yuanfang doesn't save money on this, but Liu Hong can only do online shopping for 200,000 people, which is too little.

Shen Qian knew what Li Dong was thinking when she saw Li Dong's appearance, and said angrily: "You think 200,000 people are not enough? Let alone 200,000 people at this stage, 10,000 people are more than enough! It's online at the same time, and It’s not the cumulative number of visits, according to Team Leader Liu’s prediction, if the number of daily visits exceeds one million, it will not cause network congestion, do you think we can achieve it at this stage?”

Li Dong rubbed his chin. The number of daily visits exceeds one million. This task is quite difficult.

After thinking about it, Shen Qian was right. Li Dong nodded and said, "Let's do this first, but the website will definitely develop better and better, and the preparations that should be done still need to be done."

Liu Hong and the others are a little speechless. The website has not been made yet, and you are thinking so much. Isn't it too early?

Shen Qian didn't bother to refute, and said: "Don't talk about other things, wait until the website is promoted until there are 200,000 people online."

At this time, there are not many websites in China that can do this.

Shen Qian felt that this time would take at least one or two years, and Li Dong thought too well.

Li Dong didn't take it seriously, is there more than 200,000 people?

It sounds like a lot now, but in a few years, 200,000 people, any small shopping website can do it.

Of course, it is not necessary to distinguish whether it is true or false, anyway, that is what other people's websites say.

Next, Li Dong took a look around the office area. The environment of the office area is quite good. Because there are few people and the place is large, Shen Qian's office here is more spacious than Li Dong's office upstairs.

After all, there are more than 100 office staff upstairs, and there are only more than 20 people downstairs including logistics, so the conditions are naturally not the same.

Li Dong went into Shen Qian's office to look at it for a while, then turned to Shen Qian and said, "Your place is quite big, please give up the office upstairs. Director Song and the others now have several people in one office."

Shen Qian said indifferently: "Whatever, anyway, we have to move to a new building by the end of the year at the latest."

Li Dong said with a smile: "It's fine if you agree. I'll pick a big office for you when you move into the new building at the end of the year."

Shen Qian smiled and said, "As big as Mr. Sun's?"

Li Dong rubbed his nose, glanced at Sun Tao and said, "Let's talk about it later."

He knew what Shen Qian meant, it was not the size of the office, but the status.

In fact, Li Dong doesn't care, Shen Qian has brought him a lot of help after all, if Shen Qian can be tied to the company, a vice president or even a general manager is nothing.

But after all, you have to be cautious about other people's ideas. Sun Tao is now his partner, and Wang Yue and other directors are also important people from afar.

It wouldn't be a big problem if Shen Qian just had an identity, but once Shen Qian decentralizes power, those people might not be happy.

Of course, if Shen Qian can build the mall and Li Dong lets her take over, the others will have nothing to say.

As for whether the mall can be built, Li Dong is quite sure, it's just a matter of time.

At that time, if Shen Qian is still willing to stay, Li Dong is also willing to support if she wants to be on an equal footing with Sun Tao, but it is too early to say.

"Hmph, I know you're fooling people."

Shen Qian was too lazy to entangle with him on this, and continued: "We are not busy developing the website for the past few days, but we want to hear your opinion on a few things."

"What's up?"

"First, is the name of the mall just called Yuanfang Mall?"

Li Dong frowned, is there some limitation in Yuanfang Mall?

After all, in his consideration, the last thing the mall needs to do is to develop into a third-party platform, rather than the exclusive online shopping platform of Yuanfang Supermarket.

If it's called Yuanfang Mall...

While Li Dong was pondering, Sun Tao agreed quite a bit: "Yuanfang Mall is pretty good. You can tell it belongs to Yuanfang Company as soon as you hear it. You can use the supermarket's reputation to promote the mall in the early stage."

Li Dong thought about it, which is not bad, after all, malls such as Jingdong and Suning are also named after his own company.

As for Taobao, the old horse likes to change his name, which is not harmful.

The name is not a big deal, as long as the promotion is good, it doesn't matter what it is called.

Thinking of this, Li Dong nodded and said, "It's called Yuanfang Mall."

Shen Qian didn't bother about it, and talked about the second question.

"What payment method will we use then?"

Li Dong was stunned for a moment, and said as a matter of course: "Alipay!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Dong realized what the problem was!

Alipay, that is a third-party payment company under Ali!

Ali has Taobao, Taobao can develop and grow, it is inseparable from the promotion of Alipay, if I also use Alipay, this is not an enemy.

This is not the most important thing. The key is that if you use Alipay, you will be controlled by others in the future.

Once Alipay is used to pay, the future transaction data will be completely exposed to Ali. Commercial data is always the core secret of a company. If it is exposed to outsiders, it is fine when it is not an enemy. Once it becomes an enemy, it will die without knowing how. .

Li Dong wants to be a third party, and he is destined to become a competitor with Taobao.

Although he is nothing now, Ali doesn't even know that he is the onion, but it is better to be prepared than to be controlled by others in the future.

In addition, the return of funds is also a problem, the handling fee is also a huge expenditure, and the company's business model is exposed...

This series of shortcomings immediately made Li Dong give up using Alipay as a payment method.

If Li Dong just wants to be a supermarket mall, it doesn't matter what payment method he uses, but if he wants to grow bigger, this kind of private third-party payment platform must never be used.

In the previous life, JD.com chose to acquire Wangyin Online, Suning chose to develop Yifubao, and Tencent also had its own exclusive Tenpay...

Don't these companies know that developing a third-party payment platform costs a lot, and the harvest is not directly proportional to the profit?

But they just chose to develop or acquire it by themselves, so as not to be controlled by others.

Thinking of this, Li Dong realized that he still had a lot to learn. Influenced by his previous life, he sometimes made some subjective judgments.

For example, this time, if Shen Qian hadn't come to ask, Li Dong wouldn't have thought about payment at all.

After a long sigh, Li Dong said: "In the early stage, we can cooperate with non-private third-party payment platforms such as UnionPay. Later, when we grow bigger, we can develop our own payment platform."

Shen Qian frowned and said, "Isn't the means of payment a little more monotonous?"

Li Dong waved his hand and said, "We can also use cash on delivery, but there are not many online payment methods now, and everyone is used to paying in cash..."

As soon as Li Dong finished speaking, Sun Tao questioned: "If cash on delivery is adopted, it will be very troublesome to outsource the logistics, and it will take a period for the payment to arrive. At that time, we may have to form our own logistics team."

Li Dong felt dizzy when he heard it.

Originally, he thought that it was not difficult to develop a mall, as long as there were more advertisements, and he was willing to spend money to promote it, everything was not a problem.

But who knew that because of a small payment method, the payment platform had to be developed first, and then a logistics team had to be formed because of cash payment.

Although it is okay not to set up a logistics team, if you use an outside logistics company, the recovery of the payment will be limited. It is really not as simple as I imagined to be an independent third-party mall.

Seeing Li Dong frowning, Sun Tao couldn't help but said, "Why don't we use the existing payment methods? According to what you said, we will increase a lot of expenses and cause some unnecessary troubles."

Li Dong waved his hand and said: "I have thought about this matter, what belongs to others belongs to others, after all it is not convenient for me to use."

Although Sun Tao still didn't understand, he didn't say anything.

Only Shen Qian's eyes lit up, since she asked this question, she wanted to know Li Dong's answer.

Now it seems that she guessed right. If Li Dong is only satisfied with being a supermarket, there is no need to worry about it at this time. It seems that this guy has a lot of appetite.

Not only did Shen Qian understand, but Liu Hong who was next to him was also slightly shocked. Compared with Sun Tao, a layman, Liu Hong obviously understood the significance of third-party payment platforms.

However, Liu Hong still has some doubts in his heart, can Li Dong do it?

Nowadays, even the shopping mall is a mirror image, Li Dong thinks so much at this stage, is he too arrogant?

Then Liu Hong thought that Li Dong, who was worthless the year before last, now has a net worth of over 100 million, maybe he can really create a miracle.

Everyone on the field has their own thoughts, and Li Dong is not in the mood to guess what they think.

Frowning and thinking for a while, Li Dong said again: "Let me think about these things for the time being, and my mind will be a little messed up for a while, your top priority is to develop the city, hurry up, and feel free to mention any difficulties to me. "

Liu Hong hurriedly said: "Thank you Mr. Li, we will do everything we can."

"Well, let's do that for today."

Li Dong let out a foul breath, said nothing, and left the e-commerce department with Sun Tao.

(To be continued.)