As soon as the website becomes operational, it will be possible to place orders online and then collect them at the nearest Duty Free outlets at the airport. At the beginning there will be no passport verification or control at the website as the buyers would then need to show up in person at any of the country's Duty Free outlets in the presence of a customs officer. Later it is planned to introduced an online identification of buyers in order to offer also product delivery. As in case with usual airport Duty Free shops, it will not be possible to buy goods in the online shop without travelling abroad.
It took the DFPC a full year to develop the Duty Free online shopping system and hopefully it will start working by the end of this year. Online soppers will be able to pay for their purchases with major credit cards, Bancnet debit cards, PayPal, and DFPC's newest mobile payment providers AliPay and WeChat. After the online duty free shopping system proves efficient, a mobile application will be developed, too.
Duty Free Philippines Goes Online
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The Duty Free Philippines Corporation (DFPC) will offer its customers online shopping by the end of December 2018. The respective agreement between the state-owned corporation and its first official online shopping service provider, Speed Regalo, has been signed earlier this week.