If you often use balance check or autopayment through UPI, then this news is important for you. From August 1, 2025, you will neither be able to check your balance repeatedly from UPI apps nor will you be able to use the auto payment facility during peak hours. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has taken this step to save the network from load and provide better service to all users. There may be some difficulty in the beginning, but in the long run this change will prove to be beneficial for the users.

NPCI issued a circular on May 21 asking all banks and payment service providers (PSPs) to take necessary steps to ensure compliance with the new guidelines. NPCI has directed that by July 31, all banks and PSPs should restrict the 10 most commonly used application programming interfaces (APIs) running on the UPI network, such as checking balance, initiating autopayments, and checking transaction status. If these rules are not followed, action will be taken against the banks and service providers concerned.

After the implementation of the new rule, a customer will be able to check the balance only 50 times a day through the UPI app. To avoid repeated balance inquiries, NPCI has directed banks to send account balance information with every successful transaction. Experts say that this may cause some inconvenience to the business community, as they have to check the transaction status or balance repeatedly. But this change is a step towards making the UPI system more stable and accessible.

API transactions will be limited.

NPCI has clarified that during peak hours – 10 am to 1 pm and 5 pm to 9:30 pm – no API transactions will be allowed without the user’s permission. In addition, all PSPs will have to give a written assurance to NPCI by August 31 that they will queue API requests generated from the system and reduce their processing speed.

Autopayments will also be limited.
From now on, UPI autopayments (like for SIP, Netflix etc.) will be processed only during non-peak hours. A maximum of 1 attempt and 3 retries will be allowed for each autopayment, and that too only during non-peak hours. You can set up autopayments during peak hours, but it will be processed only during non-peak hours.

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National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has directed all banks and third party apps to block those IDs in which no transaction has been done for one year. For this, NPCI has given time till 31st December. Therefore, in any case, activate your UPI ID before this date. The bank will also send a notification to the users through email or message before deactivating the UPI ID. With this step of NPCI, UPI transactions will become more secure than before. Besides, wrong transactions will also be stopped.

What does the new guideline say?

According to the new guidelines of NPCI, all third party apps and PSP banks will verify the UPI ID and the mobile number associated with it of inactive customers. If any kind of credit or debit has not been done from this ID for one year, then it will be closed.

From the new year, customers will not be able to transact with these IDs. NPCI has given time till December 31 to banks and third party apps to identify such UPI IDs. Through these new guidelines, NPCI wants to ensure that money is not transferred to the wrong person nor is it misused. Many such cases have come to light in recent times.

Difficulty comes with changing mobile number

Many times people change their mobile number and forget to deactivate the UPI ID associated with it. Due to the number being switched off for several days, it gets accessed by someone else. But, only the old UPI ID remains linked to this number. In such a situation, the possibility of wrong transaction increases manifold.

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National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has directed all banks and third party apps to block those IDs in which no transaction has been done for one year. For this, NPCI has given time till 31st December.

Therefore, in any case, activate your UPI ID before this date. The bank will also send a notification to the users through email or message before deactivating the UPI ID. With this step of NPCI, UPI transactions will become more secure than before. Besides, wrong transactions will also be stopped.

What does the new guideline say?

According to the new guidelines of NPCI, all third party apps and PSP banks will verify the UPI ID and the mobile number associated with it of inactive customers. If any kind of credit or debit has not been done from this ID for one year, then it will be closed. From the new year, customers will not be able to transact with these IDs.

There will be no scope for wrong transactions

NPCI has given time till December 31 to banks and third party apps to identify such UPI IDs. Through these new guidelines, NPCI wants to ensure that money is not transferred to the wrong person nor is it misused. Many such cases have come to light in recent times.

Difficulty comes with changing mobile number

Many times people change their mobile number and forget to deactivate the UPI ID associated with it. Due to the number being switched off for several days, it gets accessed by someone else. But, only the old UPI ID remains linked to this number. In such a situation, the possibility of wrong transaction increases manifold.

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