Mainland China's online payment platform Alipay experienced service abnormalities this morning (11th). Alipay issued a statement indicating that a partial outage in the system's message database had impacted the payment functions of some users. The glitch will not affect the safety of users' funds, claimed the company. As of 10:50 a.m., the problem was fixed.Alipay was unable to process payments today, displaying errors such as "payment failed", "transaction creation failed", and "service abnormal". Some netizens also reported that Alipay failed to credit the balance of their accounts.