India: new UPI guidelines you should know about

By- Srushti sharma

For the growth and expansion of UPI usage, India's central bank RBI has announced several changes and regulated new guidelines.

Here is everything you must know about

Before 1 january the transaction limit was restricted to 1 Lakh rupees only, but now the limit has been increased to rupees 5 lakhs

UPI transaction limit increased

UPI Id's that have been inactive for one year or more will be deactivated.

Inactive UPI Id's would be deactivated

This aims to prevent the inadvertent transfer of money to unintendent reciepents in case the customer changes their number without delinking their old number from the banking system

The lite wallets that allow users to make payment without any internet connection has been hiked up from 200 to 500

Transaction limit hiked up for UPI Lite wallets

The maximum limit for lite transactions that can be transferred online is 2000 rupees

No Authentication needed for UPI Auto payments

UPI  auto payments of upto 1 Lakh for repayment of credit cards, mutual funds subscriptions and insurance premiums will no longer require additional factor authentication (AFA)

Before this payments of more than rupees 15000 required AFA authentication

the fee paid by a merchant when a customer processes a transaction has been set up to 1.1 percent when the transaction value is less tahn rupees 2000

Interchange fee on UPI merchant payments

Also, very soon UPI users will be able to activate the ‘Tap and Pay’ feature but there is still no official announcement yet.

UPI Atm- RBI is all set to introduce UPI ATMs nationwide. With these ATMs, users can scan a QR code to withdraw cash directly from their bank accounts.