Get the Amount, Order Number, and Merchant from Any Alipay Screenshot
Manually logging Alipay transaction details — amount, merchant name, order number, and payment method — means opening each screenshot, reading fields scattered across a dense card in Chinese, and typing them into a spreadsheet — each payment takes over a minute. This pulls all visible fields from any Alipay payment confirmation screen in 5 seconds.
5-10s per screenshot · Up to 99% accuracy on printed text
The Five Fields on an Alipay Payment Confirmation
An Alipay Transaction Detail screen (账单详情) packs five fields into one card. With Custom Column Extraction, you name the columns you need — the AI reads Chinese labels alongside their values and fills each one.
Alipay's Dense Card — Five Fields Behind Chinese Labels
An Alipay payment confirmation packs more data onto a single screen than most Western payment apps — two order numbers, payment method, installment info, and the amount — each behind a Chinese label that traditional OCR can't interpret.
Two Screens, One Transaction
The blue "Payment Successful" screen shows only the amount — no merchant name, no order number. The white "Transaction Detail" screen (账单详情) has all five fields, but most users grab the quick blue screenshot and only later realize it's useless for record-keeping.
Chinese Labels, Western OCR Blindness
Amount (金额), Merchant (商户), Order Number (订单编号), Status (交易状态) — a tool built for English labels reads all of these as meaningless character strings. It sees four text lines but can't pair 金额 with the number beside it as "the amount," so the output is a jumble of raw characters with no semantic structure. On Reddit, users looking to pull transaction data from Alipay find themselves boxed into the app's built-in analysis view — "I only use the financial analysis that you can access by going to 'My Account'" — because no extraction tool understands Chinese payment screens.
Which Number Is the Order Number?
The Transaction Detail screen shows two reference numbers — the Alipay transaction ID and the merchant order number. One traces fund flow, the other traces purchase goods. Developers on Zhihu explain the distinction, but manually you have to choose blindly.
Visual Structure Awareness
The vision model identifies the blue "Payment Successful" screen as a transient confirmation and the white "Transaction Detail" screen as the structured record. It reads fields from the detail page's labeled layout — and ignores the limited blue screen entirely, so you always get the order numbers and merchant name you need.
Semantic Label Reading for Chinese
Define Amount, and the AI identifies the number beside 金额. Define Merchant, and it finds the value under 商户. Define Order Number, and it reads the string beside 订单编号. The labels are consistent across all Alipay payments.
Both Order Numbers, One Pass
Define two columns — Alipay Transaction ID and Merchant Order Number — and the AI reads both from their respective labels. No need to figure out which reference is which during reconciliation.
From an Alipay Transaction Screenshot to One Spreadsheet Row
If you're logging Alipay payments — for expense tracking, freelancer income reconciliation, or cross-platform payment records — here's what happens when you drop a Detail screen screenshot into the tool.
Upload the Transaction Detail Screenshot
Navigate to Bills (账单) in the Alipay app, tap the transaction, and screenshot the white "Transaction Detail" (账单详情) page — not the blue success screen. Drop the image into the upload area. PNG, JPG, WebP — all work directly from your phone gallery.
Define Your Columns
Type Amount, Merchant, Order Number, Payment Method, Date. The AI reads the value beside Amount (金额) and maps it to your column, does the same for Merchant (商户) and Order Number (订单编号), and matches the timestamp to Date. Add a Alipay Transaction ID column if you want both reference numbers.
Export the Row
Processing completes in 5-10 seconds. The output is one spreadsheet row — amount with ¥ symbol preserved, full merchant name, both order numbers where available, payment method exactly as shown (Balance 余额, Bank Card 银行卡, or Huabei 花呗), and the timestamp in the original Chinese format. Export to Excel or push directly into Google Sheets.
When Alipay Screenshot Extraction Works Best — and When It Doesn't
When It Works Best
Transaction Detail page screenshots from Bills tab. The white Transaction Detail (账单详情) screen has every field labeled — up to 99% accuracy on amounts and merchant names.
Mixed payment app batches. Alipay, WeChat Pay, Venmo, and PayPal screenshots in one batch — one column set extracts from every app.
Regular expense tracking at volume. Processing 30+ Alipay payments per month replaces manual transcription with a single export — amounts, merchants, and dates.
When to Be Cautious
Blue "Payment Successful" screen only. This transient screen shows the amount but typically no order number or merchant name. The AI extracts what's visible — amount alone — but the order number field will be empty.
Cropped screenshots missing the detail footer. The order number (订单编号) and payment method sit near the bottom of the Detail screen. A tight crop that cuts the footer means those fields go unextracted.
Compressed chat-forwarded images. Alipay screenshots forwarded through WeChat or messaging apps lose resolution on small text — the 15-digit order number is more vulnerable than the larger amount. Spot-check order numbers from forwarded copies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I extract data from an Alipay screenshot when the interface is entirely in Chinese?
Yes. The AI reads Chinese labels as semantic anchors — Amount (金额), Merchant (商户), Order Number (订单编号), Status (交易状态). You define your column names in English — Amount, Merchant, Order Number — and the AI maps the Chinese-labeled values to those columns by understanding the visual pairing between each label and its value on the card. Chinese-language and English-language Alipay screenshots go in the same batch without separate configuration.
What's the difference between extracting from the blue success screen versus the transaction detail screen?
The blue "Payment Successful" screen that flashes immediately after payment is a transient confirmation — it usually shows only the Amount in large type with a success tick. It typically lacks the merchant name, order number, and payment method. As the payment tracking site Extentage notes, "In disputes, a screenshot of this blue page is insufficient." The white "Transaction Detail" screen (账单详情), accessible from Bills → tap the transaction, is the authoritative record with all five extractable fields: Amount, Merchant Name, Order Number, Payment Method, and Date/Timestamp. Always screenshot the detail page for a complete extraction.
What fields can I pull from a person-to-person Alipay transfer versus a merchant payment?
A merchant payment detail screen is the richest — Amount, Merchant Name with category tag, Order Number, Payment Method (Balance 余额 / Bank Card 银行卡 / Huabei 花呗), and Date/Timestamp. A person-to-person transfer shows Amount and the recipient's Alipay-linked name, but the payment method section may be simpler and order numbers aren't always displayed on the transfer confirmation card the same way. Define your columns — the AI fills whatever each screenshot contains, and the output is still one consistent spreadsheet.
Can I batch Alipay and WeChat Pay screenshots together in one export?
Yes. Define one column set — Amount, Merchant, Date, Order Number — and upload Alipay and WeChat Pay screenshots together. The AI adapts to each app's layout individually because it reads by label meaning, not screen position. The output is one spreadsheet with the same column headers across both sources — no need to process Chinese payment apps separately from Western ones.
Does an Alipay transaction screenshot work as expense proof for reimbursement?
An Alipay Transaction Detail screenshot proves a payment was made — the Amount, Merchant Name, and Order Number are valid for internal expense tracking and personal record-keeping. However, it is not a formal fapiao (发票) — the only legally recognized document for tax-deductible expense reimbursement in China. Many companies accept the extracted data as supplementary documentation alongside a fapiao, but the screenshot alone cannot replace a formal tax invoice for tax purposes.
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