Google Pay begins charging fee for bill payments via credit, debit cards
Google Pay, one of India’s dominant digital payment platforms, has started imposing a convenience fee on bill payments made with credit and debit cards, a shift that ends the era of fee-free transactions for millions of users paying for essential services like power and gas.
According to Google Pay’s website, the newly introduced fee ranges from 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of the transaction value, in addition to the applicable Goods and Services Tax (GST). However, transactions made directly through UPI-linked bank accounts remain unaffected.