{"id":53170,"date":"2022-12-15T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T05:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=53170"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T05:36:58","slug":"bnpl-brand-atome-brings-flexible-payment-terms-to-over-900-watsons-outlets-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/12\/15\/bnpl-brand-atome-brings-flexible-payment-terms-to-over-900-watsons-outlets-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"BNPL brand, Atome brings flexible payment terms to over 900 Watson&#8217;s outlets in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Watsons, Asia&#8217;s largest international health and beauty retailer, is today announcing a partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atome.ph\/paylater-merchants\/watsons\">Atome<\/a> to offer flexible deferred payment options across 947 outlets in the Philippines as well as purchases through its physical stores, website and mobile app. Watsons also partners with Atome in other Southeast Asian markets including Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Danilo S. Chiong, Managing Director of Watsons Philippines, shares, \u201cWe are excited to partner Atome and offer buy now pay later acceptance across Watsons\u2019 physical and online outlets in the Philippines, covering over 947 stores across the country. Buy now pay later is one of the fastest-growing trends in the Philippines. Our customers in the Philippines can now shop and pay for Watson\u2019s beauty, health, and wellness brands through Atome\u2019s zero-interest, flexible, and trusted payment option, thereby increasing access and affordability of our products and services for our consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zine Nedil, General Manager at Atome Philippines, said, \u201cWe\u2019re excited to launch our partnership with Watsons in the Philippines and build on the success we\u2019ve seen in other markets such as Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Now, Watsons consumers here can enjoy the same convenience, flexibility and zero-interest payment option when shopping and paying at Watsons in-store and online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August this year, Atome also launched the first Atome Card in the Philippines, offering Filipino consumers a line of credit up to \u20b1200,000 limit with no annual and sign-up fees or hidden charges. Shoppers can use their Atome Card online and in-store during check-out.<br><br>Launched in the Philippines in October 2021, Atome today partners with over 600 online and offline retailers in the country, including SM Store, ZALORA, Rustan\u2019s online, Bench, Aldo, Charles &amp; Keith, Forever 21, Watsons, Converse, NEW Balance, URATEX, Anson\u2019s, Anker, Planet Sports across fashion, beauty, lifestyle and home and living categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watsons also partners with Atome in other Southeast Asian markets including Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7368,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-53170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-atome","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}