Showing posts with label mobile payments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile payments. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

United Payment Interface (UPI): How Will it Make Life Simpler for You?

United Payment Interface UPI
India drew a stage nearer towards turning into a cashless economy with the launch of National Payments Corporation of India's (NPCI's) Unified Payment Interface (UPI) on Monday. 

The NCPI works the Rupay payments infrastructure that – like Visa and MasterCard – permits distinctive banks to interconnect and transfer funds. The UPI can be considered as a digital framework to do likewise – the thought being that every single financial instrument can be given a unique identity on the UPI, which can then be utilized to rapidly and effortlessly complete online payments. 

With UPI, will we at long last see the tide move in the opposite direction of money towards digital money? There are numerous motivations to seek after this, as digital frameworks can be utilized to decrease the haziness of money, and to manufacture a man's financial history, which will be a vital device for financial incorporation. 

What is Unified Payment Interface (UPI) about? 

With the usage of UPI, clients can transfer money between various banks, or even do an online exchange without hardly lifting a finger. The NCPI cases it's as basic as sending a text message. 

Not at all like the present situation when you require an IFSC code and expansion of a recipient, with UPI the exchanges/purchases made are connected to a unique number which goes about as your virtual address number for all payments. 

What Will UPI Work on? 

It is a portable interface and will take a shot at cell phones as it were. 

One-Click Secured Payment is Here 

Rather than an internet banking password, trailed by an OTP code, now clients need to simply put in their single-access code for all exchanges. This procedure at long last gives you a solitary click payment system however in the two-variable verification mode - you require both a phone with an enrolled application, and your password, to acknowledge a payment - this implies it's a protected technique for payments as well. 

Since it doesn't depend on individuals having charge or Visas by any stretch of the imagination, and improves net-banking rather, the UPI could open up online payments for an immense number of individuals. 

How Does One Start Using UPI? 

A few banks have incorporated UPI into their existing applications. Some have launched new ones for it. Clients can download the application and register - the vital piece of this is a virtual ID and a versatile pin or MPIN. 

Password is Your License to Buy 

Individuals can send you money utilizing the virtual ID, and you can shop utilizing this ID. 

You can pay for your taxicab or online staple without sharing your bank points of interest. You should simply share your virtual address gave to you by the bank. The individual on the flip side will then demand you to make the payment, which can be finished once you authenticate the payment by writing in your password. 

UPI Launch Android App


One should likewise take note of that the UPI will be accessible to clients 24x7 as it depends on the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) stage, right now utilized for internet banking exchanges. 

Who Needs E-Wallets? 

The UPI could make it less demanding to refill your virtual wallet and use it - however it could likewise get to be simpler to specifically execute with a merchant. All things considered, would individuals still require digital wallets? 

Mobile wallet organizations like PayTM, PayU and ItzCash say they are more than alright with the UPI coming into power. 

What's more, it appears to be enormous players like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon have been preparing for it too. 

Not long ago, Flipkart purchased PhonePe which is said to be chipping away at an item in light of UPI system. Snapdeal as of now has FreeCharge under its wings and Amazon could make its turn in the coming months. 

The impact of UPI on electronic wallets is to be seen. A few individuals say it could mean the end for wallets—a passing stride between traditional payments mechanisms and a full-fledged digital one, for example, UPI—while others say it will essentially make it simpler to possess and work wallets. 

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Google Buys Softcard's Technology, Gets Deal With U.S. Carriers

Google buys SoftCard
Google Inc. has acquired technology and patents from Softcard, a mobile-wallet service sponsored by the three-greatest U.S. remote suppliers, as the Web organization tackles Apple Inc. to offer more payment peculiarities on smartphones.

Softcard is a joint wander between AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to support NFC based mobile payments in the United States. While Google's unique post on the Google Commerce web journal depicted it as something closer to a partnership, the announcement discharged via Softcard affirms that Google has acquired Softcard's technology.

The deal will see Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T pre-install Google Wallet on their Android phones in the U.S. not long from now. Google Wallet permits shoppers to tap their phones to pay at checkout in some block and-mortar stores similarly Apple Pay does. The move likewise includes Google purchasing some protected innovation from Softcard, once known as ISIS. It doesn't give the idea that any Softcard representatives are joining Google as a major aspect of the deal.

Google, which presented its digital wallet in 2011, is searching for better approaches to pull in clients as Apple's mobile-payments service makes strides with purchasers and retailers. Apple Pay as of now records for more than $2 out of $3 of buys utilizing contactless mobile-telephone payments over the three noteworthy Visa systems, Apple said a month ago.

"We've gotten awesome criticism from individuals who utilize this peculiarity and we've kept contributing to make it simple and secure for more individuals to pay with their phones," Google said. "An enormous piece of this is working with different trend-setters in the business to help give a consistent experience over an extensive variety of phones and stores."

While Apple Pay has made strides, EBay Inc's. PayPal payments service remains a top supplier for mobile and Internet payments. In November, Apple Pay represented 1 percent of digital-payment dollars spent, by Investment Research. PayPal, which has been around for a long time and is being spun off by EBay, had 78 percent, while Google Wallet had 4 percent.

The partnership takes after Samsung Electronics Co's. declaration not long from now of a deal to purchase LoopPay Inc. to pick up a bigger foothold in mobile payments. LoopPay makes cell phone frill that let 90 percent of Visa payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.

LoopPay makes cell phone adornments that let 90 percent of Mastercard payment gadgets accept mobile payments, Samsung said.