Merchants of UPI

PhonePe’s offline overtures

PhonePe’s path to realising its grand vision of being the number one payments app hinges on users using it to pay merchants. But will they?

16/06/17

Arundhati Ramanathan

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In the race to make Unified Payments Interface (UPI) a popular way to pay, PhonePe was the first to shoot right off the block when the whistle sounded. Within a week after the payment system was launched in August 2016, PhonePe was out with its app. In these nine months, the young payments app has…

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