UPI to tap 10-15 e-tailers in coming two months
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The government-backed Unified Payments Interface ("In the next one or two months, a sizeable number of ecommerce merchants will go live on UPI. That's what our effort is. At least 10-15 merchants will be going live so that we can get good traffic,"
As of now, UPI platform, launched on August 25th, is offering person-to-person transactions via 21 banks.
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"Many providers will also come now, which will layer user services like bill payments and mobile top-ups, which will ride on UPI platform," Asbe told when asked about upcoming plans.
As per reports, the online merchants expected to join UPI include eBay, MakeMyTrip and Pepperfry; for mobile bill payments, players like BSNL, MTNL and Idea Cellular are slated to be partnered with.
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