{"id":1035812,"date":"2026-09-16T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035812"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:57:00","slug":"centre-sets-0-4-fee-on-upi-merchant-payments-above-rs-2000-ends-zero-mdr-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/centre-sets-0-4-fee-on-upi-merchant-payments-above-rs-2000-ends-zero-mdr-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre sets 0.4% fee on UPI merchant payments above Rs 2,000, ends zero-MDR regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Tuesday introduced a revised framework for UPI merchant payments, with transactions above Rs 2,000 attracting a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4 per cent, capped at Rs 300 per transaction, from October 15, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Consumers will continue to use UPI free of cost, while person-to-person (P2P) transactions and person-to-merchant (P2M) payments up to Rs 2,000 will remain outside the MDR regime. The government said these low-value transactions account for more than 95 per cent of all UPI P2M transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Tuesday introduced a revised framework for UPI merchant payments, with transactions above Rs 2,000 attracting a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.4 per cent, capped at Rs 300 per transaction, from October 15, 2026. Consumers will continue to use UPI free of cost, while person-to-person (P2P) transactions and person-to-merchant (P2M) payments up to Rs 2,000 will remain outside the MDR regime. The government said these low-value transactions account for more than 95 per cent of all UPI P2M transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035834,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035812\/revisions\/1035834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}