{"id":1043215,"date":"2026-10-14T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043215"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:29:12","slug":"upi-fee-set-to-raise-costs-for-some-merchants-as-industry-awaits-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/upi-fee-set-to-raise-costs-for-some-merchants-as-industry-awaits-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI fee set to raise costs for some merchants as industry awaits rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India&#8217;s move to levy merchant discount rates (MDR) on select UPI transactions is set to bring new costs for some businesses, even as most merchant payments remain free. A new survey suggests the impact will vary widely, with some merchants anticipating substantial monthly bills while many expect the charges to have little effect on their margins.<\/p>\n<p>A merchant survey included in How Urban India Pays 2026, a report by Pahl\u00e9 India Foundation in partnership with Amazon Pay, found that 25% of respondents expect to pay more than \u20b95,000 a month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: India&#8217;s move to levy merchant discount rates (MDR) on select UPI transactions is set to bring new costs for some businesses, even as most merchant payments remain free. A new survey suggests the impact will vary widely, with some merchants anticipating substantial monthly bills while many expect the charges to have little effect on their margins. A merchant survey included in How Urban India Pays 2026, a report by Pahl\u00e9 India Foundation in partnership with Amazon Pay, found that 25% of respondents expect to pay more than \u20b95,000 a month.<\/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-1043215","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\/1043215","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=1043215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043216,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043215\/revisions\/1043216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}