UPI transactions over Rs 2,000 via prepaid instruments to be charged at 1.1 percent from April 1st

Highlights

• Starting April 1st, you will have to pay a 1.1 percent charge on your UPI payments above Rs 2,000.
• National Payments Corporation of India has recommended Prepaid Payment Instrument charges for UPI payments.
• The stated pricing will be reviewed by the authority on or before September 30th, 2023.

Starting April 1st, those making UPI payments in India will have to pay a 1.1% charge on the payments above Rs 2,000, while using PPI (Prepaid Payment Instruments). The National Payments Corporation of India has advised Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI) fees to be applied to all merchant transactions made via UPI (Unified Payment Interface) beginning on April 1st. The recommendation has already been made public via a recent circular, and NPCI will review the charges on or before September 30th, 2023.

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While the upper limit of the transaction charges has been set to 1.1%, not every transaction above Rs 2,000 will be charged with the same percentage. The introduction of interchange is in the range of 0.5% to 1.1 percent. For instance, users will be charged 0.5 percent for UPI transactions made for fuel purchase, 0.7% for telecom, utilities/post office, education, and agriculture, 0.9% for supermarket, and 1% for mutual funds, government, insurance, and railways.

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The PPI issuer will have to pay 15 bps as an advanced wallet loading service charge to the remitter bank for loading transaction values that are greater than the said amount (Rs 2,000), but an interchange won’t be applicable in terms of peer-to-peer (P2P) and peer-to-merchant (P2M) transactions between a bank account and a PPI wallet.

According to an industry expert, who prefers to stay anonymous, these charged had been much awaited by payment providers, because there were costs involved in providing the services, which were free of cost up until now. The merchants with ticket items above Rs 2,000, on the other hand, will not be happy, and in one way or the other, these charges will be passed to the end customer.

As mentioned earlier, the new structure will be reviewed by the NPCI on or before September 30th this year, but till then, the newly introduced structure will be the norm for UPI transactions made in India.

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