{"id":907838,"date":"2025-02-21T08:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907838"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:52:17","slug":"google-pay-begins-charging-fee-for-bill-payments-via-credit-debit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/21\/google-pay-begins-charging-fee-for-bill-payments-via-credit-debit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pay begins charging fee for bill payments via credit, debit cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Pay, one of India\u2019s dominant digital payment platforms, has started imposing a convenience fee on bill payments made with credit and debit cards, a shift that ends the era of fee-free transactions for millions of users paying for essential services like power and gas.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google Pay\u2019s website, the newly introduced fee ranges from 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of the transaction value, in addition to the applicable Goods and Services Tax (GST). However, transactions made directly through UPI-linked bank accounts remain unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Pay, one of India\u2019s dominant digital payment platforms, has started imposing a convenience fee on bill payments made with credit and debit cards, a shift that ends the era of fee-free transactions for millions of users paying for essential services like power and gas. According to Google Pay\u2019s website, the newly introduced fee ranges from 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of the transaction value, in addition to the applicable Goods and Services Tax (GST). However, transactions made directly through UPI-linked bank accounts remain unaffected.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907838","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=907838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}