UPI became essential payment method in India. There is no question that it will be fully implemented in near future and there will not be any physical cash transactions around the globe.

when it comes to payments, you always have to make sure that your payments are secure. So how do you do it?

Follow these instructions to make secure transactions:

• Never ever show your UPI pin while making a payment, make sure no one is around peeking your phone.
• Never ever enter a pin to receive payments. Remember! You are entering pin just to make payments not to receive payments. If someone is asking to enter pin to pay you money then never ever enter it.
• Do not install any apps outside the play store.
• Do not use any screen-sharing app while doing UPI payments.
• Always keep your apps up to date by updating new updates from play store. It is recommended to keep the auto-update feature enabled on your play store app/iOS app.
• Always check the receiver’s name before entering your UPI pin. When you scan a QR code please make sure you are sending an amount to the right person also make sure that the payment amount is correct.

In what comes as a shot in the arm for Meta-owned WhatsApp, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has approved an additional 60 million users on UPI for WhatsApp. With this approval, WhatsApp will be able to expand the service to its 100 million users, intensifying competition in the digital payments space in India.

The move comes months after it approved increasing the user cap for WhatsApp’s payment service from the current 20 million to 40 million.https://aa089d4943ae6a51e517200dc1c6bc6b.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html?n=0

While WhatsApp has been pushing for an increase in user cap, NPCI wanted to increase this in a phased manner so that the payment system is not overwhelmed.

NPCI, which operates the country’s retail payment and settlement systems, had allowed WhatsApp to start payment services in November 2020 with a cap of 20 million users. The Meta-owned company was expected to disrupt the payments space with its large user base in India, but it had not taken off in a big way.

Now, WhatsApp has decided to ramp up efforts to expand the payment service and wants more users.https://aa089d4943ae6a51e517200dc1c6bc6b.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html?n=0

WhatsApp’s messenger service has over 400 million users in India and lifting the limit for the payment service in one go may lead to extremely high transaction volumes on NPCI’s platform.

NPCI is considering gradually increasing the cap because it cannot handle the large volume that can be generated by lifting the cap completely. WhatsApp has been expanding its payment services in India since September last year. Manesh Mahatme, director of WhatsApp India Payments, said it is gradually expanding its service in partnership with NPCI. Mahatome said he will focus on accelerating marketing initiatives to raise awareness of the payment capabilities of instant messaging apps. As part of this promotion, the company has made the payment service more visible by placing the chat composer rupee icon between the attachment and the camera icon. This allowed us to scan the QR code using the camera icon on the WhatsApp home screen and make payments at 20 million stores in India. With the steady increase in transactions on the platform, new efforts to improve payment behavior appear to be paying off. However, WhatsApp’s share of India’s monthly payments is still small compared to PhonePe and Google Pay. Separately, NPCI has reduced the amount of United Payment Interface-based transactions for third-party payment apps such as Phone Pe, Google Pay and WhatsApp to 30% of the total amount of transactions processed on a rolling basis in the last three months. Limited to. Operators must comply with this standard by January 2023. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has seen significant growth over the last two years, surpassing $ 1 trillion in transaction value in 202122, a major milestone in payment systems that further facilitated digital adoption of payments and financial services. Did.