asknet AG, recently ranked as one of Germany's fastest-growing technology companies in Deloitte's "Technology Fast 50" report, reported that now it is offering Alipay as an online payment option to customers in China.

"With Alipay, asknet expands its global eCommerce payment portfolio. We are proud to work with China's leading online payment service. This cooperation will greatly ease our customers' entry into the Chinese digital product market and provide additional value to our existing offering to sell online in China", says Michael Konrad, CFO of asknet.

"Alipay is continually focused on providing the most secure and convenient payment services to our users," says Polo Shao, president of Alipay. "We are excited to work with asknet to offer state-of-the-art payment solutions to customers in their online transactions."

Alipay option means that asknet's software publishers can offer Chinese end customers their preferred payment option when buying internationally renowned software online.