Google Pay in conjunction with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday rolled out support for RuPay credit cards on Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
Moreover, users can now link their RuPay credit cards with Google Pay to pay at all online and offline merchants where RuPay credit cards is accepting
Besides, the feature is now available to RuPay credit card holders of
-Axis Bank
-Bank of Baroda
-Canara Bank
-HDFC bank
-Indian Bank
-Kotak Mahindra Bank
-Punjab National Bank
-Union Bank of India, the company said in a statement.
Thus feature will give Google Pay users more flexibility and choice in making payments. It will drive greater adoption of digital payments in the country,” said Sharath Bulusu, Director of Product Management at Google.
To activate, users need to add the RuPay credit card to Google Pay. Users can tap on the “RuPay credit card on UPI” option in their profile and select the bank which issued their RuPay credit card
Currently, the NPCI reported a massive jump in monthly transaction count. As the UPI transactions touched 8.7 billion in March.
Thus to NPCI data, approximately 74 billion transactions worth Rs 125.94 trillion conducted using UPI in calendar year 2022.