{"id":922794,"date":"2025-04-16T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=922794"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:46:23","slug":"npci-makes-changes-in-international-upi-transactions-via-qr-share-pay-when-upi-users-can-pay-and-when-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/16\/npci-makes-changes-in-international-upi-transactions-via-qr-share-pay-when-upi-users-can-pay-and-when-not\/","title":{"rendered":"NPCI makes changes in international UPI transactions via QR share &amp; Pay: When UPI users can pay and when not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant regulatory update that impacts global digital payments, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has issued a directive halting all international UPI transactions made through the \u201cQR Share &amp; Pay\u201d method. The announcement, detailed in a circular dated April 8, 2025, is effective retroactively from April 4, 2025. Under the new regulation, international merchant payments initiated by scanning QR codes saved in device galleries\u2014rather than physically present codes\u2014will no longer be allowed. This policy change affects all Payment Service Provider (PSP) apps such as Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm that facilitate India\u2019s UPI (Unified Payments Interface) services abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant regulatory update that impacts global digital payments, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has issued a directive halting all international UPI transactions made through the \u201cQR Share &amp; Pay\u201d method. The announcement, detailed in a circular dated April 8, 2025, is effective retroactively from April 4, 2025. Under the new regulation, international merchant payments initiated by scanning QR codes saved in device galleries\u2014rather than physically present codes\u2014will no longer be allowed. This policy change affects all Payment Service Provider (PSP) apps such as Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm that facilitate India\u2019s UPI (Unified Payments Interface) services [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922794","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=922794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}