WhatsApp wins approval to expand WhatsApp Pay to 100 million users

WhatsApp permitted to broaden its settlements solution to 100 million customers in India

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WhatsApp has protected NPCI approval for broadening its settlements service– WhatsApp Pay– to 100 million users in India. Earlier the limit was set to 40 million individuals. 

WhatsApp has protected authorization by the National Repayments Company of India (NPCI) for increasing its settlements platform, WhatsApp Pay, to a total amount of 100 million individuals in the nation, based on a current record.

The NPCI has actually verified that the messaging system has been permitted to present its settlements service to an added 60 million customers in India. “National Repayments Corporation of India (NPCI) has actually approved an additional sixty million individuals on UPI for WhatsApp. With this authorization, WhatsApp will certainly be able to broaden the service to its hundred (100) million users,” an NPCI speaker told

WhatsApp initially began checking its settlements service in India with one million individuals back in 2018. The firm formally introduced the solution in 2020 after investing years to adhere to the regulation, that included all payments-related information to be kept in your area. At the time, the firm was enabled to present WhatsApp Pay to simply 20 million customers in the country. After that in 2014, this limit was increased to 40 million users. Now, the Meta-owned messaging application has actually been allowed to increase the service to 60 million customers, taking the count to an overall of 100 million users.

It deserves stating that though WhatsApp Pay’s cap has been broadened to 100 million individuals, the brand-new restriction still restricts the service’s growth potential customers in the country where it has more than 500 million customers.

The firm, on its part, has actually told the NPCI that it wishes to operate “without a cap” a number of times. Nonetheless, NPCI, as per a Reuters record, is of the sight that permitting all of WhatsApp users to access the payments solution can stress India’s economic infrastructure. And so, the organisation has offered a staggered present approval to the business.