{"id":1040301,"date":"2026-10-02T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040301"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:19:27","slug":"my-egg-vendor-asked-me-to-bring-cash-after-october-15-that-is-upis-real-mdr-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/my-egg-vendor-asked-me-to-bring-cash-after-october-15-that-is-upis-real-mdr-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"My egg vendor asked me to bring cash after October 15. That is UPI\u2019s real MDR problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter October 15, bring cash.\u201d My egg vendor told me this yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>I asked him why. I know my six eggs won\u2019t incur any charge. He said that the wholesaler wants cash. That payment will definitely cross the threshold, and someone will bear the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). <\/p>\n<p>I persisted. I suggested he could still accept payments via UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and withdraw cash from the bank. He replied nonchalantly, \u201cI don\u2019t want to go to the bank.\u201d So, asking customers for cash is easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter October 15, bring cash.\u201d My egg vendor told me this yesterday. I asked him why. I know my six eggs won\u2019t incur any charge. He said that the wholesaler wants cash. That payment will definitely cross the threshold, and someone will bear the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR). I persisted. I suggested he could still accept payments via UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and withdraw cash from the bank. He replied nonchalantly, \u201cI don\u2019t want to go to the bank.\u201d So, asking customers for cash is easier.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040301","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=1040301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040342,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040301\/revisions\/1040342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}