Google Pay brings UPI Vouchers, Clickpay QR, and other features to sort digital payments in India

Google Pay is a household name when it comes to UPI transactions on a daily basis. And the application keeps getting new features for the convenience of the users. Now, Google has announced new features for the application at the Global Fintech Fest 2024 – UPI Vouchers, UPI Circle, Clickpay QR, etc. Most of the mentioned features will make a debut on the Google Pay application by the end of the year. These features will work in order to make financial processes simple on the application. Also Read: No PIN Needed: Google Pay, Paytm, And PhonePe Users Can Pay Using Fingerprint Or Face Scan

Google Pay UPI Vouchers

Google Pay’s UPI vouchers are expanding, and users will now be allowed to send prepaid vouchers to anyone’s mobile numbers. These vouchers could be used for purposes like initiating a payment without linking a bank account to UPI (for the recipient). The feature will be a boon for the people indulging in corporate gifting, government programs, etc. The simplification of transactions to this level will definitely boost digital payments in India. Also Read: New UPI Rules Roll Out Today: Here's What You Can And Can't Do Now On Google Pay, Paytm, PhonePe

UPI Circle

UPI Circle will let the users give authority over payments to trusted sources like friends and families. This feature will benefit those who are not that much into digital payments. With this feature in play, any UPI user on Google Pay can add secondary users to their account. There will be two types of control options for the same – partial delegation and full delegation. In partial delegation, the primary user will have full control and will approve all the payment requests generated by the secondary users. In full delegation, the primary user can set up a monthly limit, of not more than INR 15,000, to let the secondary user do the payments on the primary user’s behalf. Also Read: New UPI Rules From August 1: Daily Limits, Fixed AutoPay Timings And More - All That's Changing

Clickpay QR

Google Pay’s Clickpay QR is launched in partnership with NPCI Bharat Billpay. This feature will let the users pay bills by scanning a Clickpay QR code via the Google Pay application. The QR code, which can be generated by billers, will be able to fetch the bill details of the users. This feature will make bill payments via Google Pay seamless.

Other Google Pay features on the cards

Google Pay is also coming up with Autopay for UPI Lite. This particular feature will top up a user’s UPI Lite balance automatically when it goes down a certain point.

In addition, Google is also introducing Tap and Pay for RuPay cards. The feature will let the user add their RuPay cards to Google Pay and initiate payments by just tapping their smartphone on the card machine.

Furthermore, the application will also allow the users to discover and link their prepaid utility accounts like housing society, and electricity, to Google Pay. This feature will help the users sort their recurring payments without any hassle.