{"id":1040915,"date":"2026-10-05T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040915"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:09:06","slug":"industrial-marketplace-pneucons-disables-upi-on-orders-from-oct-10-co-founder-says-mdr-ate-94-of-our-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/industrial-marketplace-pneucons-disables-upi-on-orders-from-oct-10-co-founder-says-mdr-ate-94-of-our-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial marketplace Pneucons disables UPI on orders from Oct 10, co-founder says \u2018MDR ate 94% of our margins\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad-based industrial marketplace Pneucons has decided to stop accepting UPI payments from October 10, with its co-founder saying the imposition of merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified online transactions would significantly squeeze the company&#8217;s margins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter thoughtful consideration we have decided to disable UPI going forward from 10th Oct,\u201d Pritesh Lakhani, co-founder of Pneucons, said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad-based industrial marketplace Pneucons has decided to stop accepting UPI payments from October 10, with its co-founder saying the imposition of merchant discount rate (MDR) on specified online transactions would significantly squeeze the company&#8217;s margins. \u201cAfter thoughtful consideration we have decided to disable UPI going forward from 10th Oct,\u201d Pritesh Lakhani, co-founder of Pneucons, said on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040915","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040917,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040915\/revisions\/1040917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}