UPI Lite Soon Arriving in India to Facilitate Small Value Transactions

Users of UPI will now be able to get access to UPI Lite which is all set to debut as an on-device wallet option for users on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The UPI Lite will enable small-value transactions in offline mode. The member banks of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) were informed about the launch of the UPI Lite by the latter. UPI Lite is basically going to be the corporation’s answer to mobile wallets including Paytm and MobiKwik.

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Details on UPI Lite

For those unaware, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had introduced a framework for facilitating small-value digital payments in offline mode back in January and the UPI Lite will be launched in accordance with the central bank’s model. NPCI has released a circular that states that users on UPI apps will have the option to enable UPI Lite for making small-value transactions in offline mode. The enabling of UPI Lite will allow users to allocate funds from their bank account to UPI Lite.

In the initial stages of its launch, UPI Lite will process transactions in near offline modes which means that it will only debit payments in offline mode and credit the account when online. Although NPCI has informed that the option to process transactions in complete offline mode where debit and credit both will be offline will be introduced later. The upper limit on a UPI transaction has been set at Rs 200 whereas the total limit of balance for the on-device wallet can be up to Rs 2,000 as informed by NPCI.