A payment method includes: acquiring a frontal face image, and a side face image from at least one side, of a to-be-identified user; identifying whether the to-be-identified user is an authorized user of a payment electronic account according to the frontal face image and the side face image that are acquired; and making a deduction operation on the payment electronic account if it is identified that the to-be-identified user is an authorized user of the payment electronic account.