UPI users big update: New rule is coming from June 16, you will get these benefits

Jyoti — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:04:43 +0000

There is big news for UPI users. There is going to be a big change in the UPI rules from June 16. Let us tell you that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced an important update in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system, which will come into effect from June 16, 2025.

According to NPCI, after the new change, the response time of UPI transactions will be reduced. According to the information given, the time taken to check the status of the transaction and reverse the payment will be reduced from 30 seconds to just 10 seconds. With this change, the process of sending and receiving money through UPI will become faster and smoother than ever.

Payment will be done in just 15 seconds

According to NPCI, the response time of Request Pay and Response Pay service will be reduced from 30 seconds to 15 seconds. Also, the time required to verify an address will be reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. These updates are aimed at ensuring that UPI transactions are completed faster. NPCI has asked banks and payment service providers (PSPs) to update their systems to comply with the new timings.

There was trouble 3 times in 15 days

This update comes after the problems in UPI transactions in April. UPI transactions across the country were badly disrupted on April 12, which was the third incident in less than a fortnight. Earlier, there were problems in UPI transactions on March 26 and April 2. After this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had directed all the concerned parties to work together to remove the shortcomings of the infrastructure, improve the end user experience and cyber security framework. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an instant payment system developed by NPCI, an entity regulated by the RBI.

UPI users Big Update: Google Pay begins charging fee for bill payments via credit, debit cards

Jyoti — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:47:04 +0000

A large number of people in the country today are using Unified Interface Payments (UPIMany small to big money transactions are completed in a jiffy through UPI. There are many UPI apps like PhonePe, Google Pay.

Which are making your transaction facility easy. Google Pay has now started charging convenience fee on some transactions. In today’s news, we are going to give you information about this, let’s know about it…

Google Pay will charge fees for these transactions

According to a news from ET Hindi, users will now be able to pay bills like electricity and LPG through Google Pay.chargewill have to be paid. This fee will be applicable on transactions made through debit and credit cards. Which will be 0.5% to 1% of the transaction value along with goods and services tax.

Fees levied for making payments through this payment method

According to a report by ET, ET reviewed a transaction done through Google Pay. In which it was revealed that the customer had paid the electricity bill through credit card on Google Pay. For which the customer was charged Rs 15 in the name of convenience fee. This fee is being labeled by Google Pay as a transaction done through debit and credit card. The customer is also required to pay GST in this transaction.

Charges are also levied on mobile recharge

Some services like mobile recharge through Google Pay attract convenience fee. It varies according to the amount of recharge.

No charges are deducted for recharge of less than Rs 100.
A convenience fee of Rs 1 is charged on recharges up to Rs 101-200.
There is a charge of Rs 2 on recharge of Rs 201-300.
A convenience fee of Rs 3 is charged on recharges of Rs 301 or more.

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