UPI daily transactions cross 500 Mn mark

Unified payments interface (UPI) has crossed the milestone of processing 500 million transactions on a daily basis for a couple of times in August. This is a significant jump in daily volume as the Indian government has set the ambitious target of clocking 1 billion transactions per day by 2026-27.

As per data published by the NPCI, UPI crossed 500 million transaction count on August 2 and August 5. However, this is the third instance when UPI achieved the milestone. The previous was on July 2, 2024, according to UPI data analyzed by Entrackr.

To recall, UPI first crossed 500 million transactions on a monthly basis for the first time in November 2018 and it took less than six years to achieve the same feat on a daily basis. This also shows that the NPCI has developed a robust platform which can handle ever-growing scale.

Currently, there are very few companies in India and overseas that are capable of processing over 50 crore transactions on a daily basis.

“0.5 Bn/day. Time to revise the India Vision from 1 billion / day to 100 Bn/month,” said NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe on X.

In July, UPI transactions rose 3.95% month-on-month to 14.44 billion from 13.89 billion in June.

Volume wise, PhonePe had 48.3% market share in UPI as of June followed by Google Pay and Paytm with 36.7% and nearly 8% market share, respectively. A bunch of new players such as CRED, NAVI, Groww, Slice and recently launched Flipkart UPI are also clocking decent volumes in UPI. The volume breakup for July is yet to be published.

NPCI has also launched a credit line on UPI facility in which ICICI Bank is one of the leading banks with other five to six lenders.

Recently, NPCI chief operating officer (COO) Praveena Rai said that UPI is adding up to 6 million new users every month. Besides India, NPCI has launched the instant payments services in foreign countries including Singapore, France, Mauritius, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the UAE.