Messaging platform, WhatsApp, has received National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) nod for extending the UPI service to an additional 60 Mn users.With this, as many as 100 Mn WhatApp will ...

WhatsApp, which reaches over 400 million users in India, counts India as its largest market by users. “National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has approved an additional sixty (60) million ...

WhatsApp’s share of UPI payments was under 0.4% at the end of June 2025, struggling to gain ground against Google Pay and ...

The NPCI has been giving approval to WhatsApp in a phased manner so that the competition in the digital payment space, dominated by PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm, is not stifled.

NPCI put a user limit on Whatsapp Pay of one million in 2020, which was increased to 100 million by 2022. This limit has not been completely removed. Earlier, ...

WhatsApp, which has over 400 million monthly active users, has told the NPCI in the past that it wants to operate without a cap on the number of transactions it can process or the number of users ...

Gradually, by November 2020, NPCI allowed WhatsApp to launch UPI services, with user registration restricted to 20 million. By November 2022, the cap for WhatsApp Pay increased to 100 million users.

When WhatsApp Pay was launched, it was allowed to onboard only a small percentage of UPI users. Gradually, NPCI increased the limit. In November 2022, the limit for WhatsApp Pay was increased to ...

Facebook-owned messaging platform  WhatsApp  has been granted permission to double its user base for the payments service to 40 million by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI ...

Even though the NPCI had responded to the first letter, the MeitY wasn’t satisfied and wanted detailed answers on the compliance standards, etc, of WhatsApp Pay. While, on one hand, the NPCI has ...

“WhatsApp can expand its UPI user base in a graded manner starting with a maximum registered user base of twenty (20) million in UPI,” said NPCI in an official statement.

As per a report by Reuters citing two sources familiar with the matter, WhatsApp has gained NPCI approval. For years, the service has been telling NPCI that there should be no cap on the number of ...