{"id":1035909,"date":"2026-09-16T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035909"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:49:14","slug":"key-highlights-of-govt-introducing-0-4-mdr-on-upi-payments-to-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/key-highlights-of-govt-introducing-0-4-mdr-on-upi-payments-to-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"Key highlights of govt introducing 0.4% MDR on UPI payments to merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants from October 15. <\/p>\n<p>Highlights of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions <\/p>\n<p>*No Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) to be levied on UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000 <\/p>\n<p>*MDR of 0.4% to be levied on Person to Merchant transactions above Rs 2,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on UPI payments of more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants from October 15. Highlights of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions *No Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) to be levied on UPI transactions up to Rs 2,000 *MDR of 0.4% to be levied on Person to Merchant transactions above Rs 2,000<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035909","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=1035909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036010,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035909\/revisions\/1036010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}