Unified Payments Interface
Industry | Finance |
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Founded | 11th April, 2016 |
Founder | Reserve Bank of India |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1] |
Products | Online platform for transactions |
Parent | National Payments Corporation of India |
Website | Official site |
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a system that powers multiple bank accounts (of participating banks), several banking services features like fund transfer (P2P), and merchant payments in a single mobile application.[2] UPI was launched by National Payments Corporation of India with Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) vision of migrating towards a 'less-cash' and more digital society. UPI has built on the Immediate Payment Service(IMPS) platform.
UPI platform can be used for:
- Immediate money transfer through mobile device round the clock 24*7 and 365 days.
- Single mobile application for accessing different bank accounts
- Single Click 2 Factor Authentication .
- Virtual address of the customer for Pull & Push provides for incremental security with the customer not required to enter the details such as Card no, Account number; IFSC etc.
- Bill Sharing with friends.
- Merchant Payment with Single Application or In-App Payments.
- Scheduling PUSH and PULL Payments for various purposes.
- Utility Bill Payments, Over the Counter Payments, Barcode (Scan and Pay) based payments.
- Donations, Collections, Disbursements Scalable.
- Raising Complaint from Mobile App directly.
How it works
Any smartphone user who has an account with a UPI-partnered bank can download a UPI app.
Registration in UPI enabled application: [3]
Steps for Registration:
1. User downloads the UPI application from the App Store / Banks website. 2. User creates their profile by entering details like name, virtual id (payment address), password etc. 3. User goes to “Add/Link/Manage Bank Account” option and links the bank and account number with the virtual id
Generating M – PIN:
1. User selects the bank account from which they want to initiate the transaction 2. User clicks on required option
Currently, the following 26 banks[4] provide UPI-based services:
Banks live as PSP and Issuer:
- Andhra Bank
- Axis Bank
- Bank of Maharashtra
- Canara Bank
- Catholic Syrian Bank
- DCB Bank
- Karnataka Bank
- Union Bank of India
- United Bank of India
- Vijaya Bank
- Punjab National Bank
- Oriental Bank of Commerce
- TJSB Sahakari Bank
- Federal Bank
- ICICI Bank
- UCO Bank
- South Indian Bank
- HDFC Bank
- State Bank of India
- Standard Chartered Bank India
Banks live as Issuer:
Initially, 29 banks had tied up with NPCI for the launch. However, only 21 banks have been able to meet the criteria so far.
See also
- List of Payment Service Providers
- Payment gateway
- Merchant account
- Immediate Payment Service
- National Payments Corporation of India
References
- ↑ "National Payments Corporation of India". Npci.org.in. Retrieved 2011-03-16.
- ↑ "Unified Payments Interface". www.npci.org.in. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ↑ "Unified Payments Interface". NPCI.
- ↑ "UPI".
External Links
- AwesomeUPI - List of links to official UPI bank apps.