If you use the Phone Pe app to make mobile bills or recharge. So this news can affect your pocket. Actually, recently Phone Pe has changed its features. Under which now on recharging mobile through this app, the user will have to pay processing charge or process fee. This digital payment venture of the commercial company Walmart, PhonePe has recently released in its new update that recharge of more than Rs 50 through this platform will have to pay Rs 1 to 2 as processing fee. It is worth noting that till now no platform charges any fee for making online payments through UPI.
With this change, users using PhonePe credit cards will also now have to pay an additional processing charge on each transaction. Phone Pe used to provide this service for free earlier. While some digital platforms charge a fee for this.
Phone Pe spokesperson recently released an official statement informing about the changes in the terms of service of this digital payment platform. He told that Phone Pe is promoting a new experiment in these small parts. Under this, processing charge will have to be paid for mobile recharge. There will be no charge for recharge of less than Rs.50. Whereas for payment above Rs 50, Rs 1 will be charged and Rs 2 will be charged for payment above Rs 100.
Let us tell you that Phone Pe has the highest number of users in India using third party apps for UPI based transactions. Most popular app for online financial transactions. However, after this new feature, users of Phone Pe may be affected. Because such fee is not charged by any other online payment platform. In this case, the consumer can try other options.
However, clarifying this, a PhonePe spokesperson has said that they are not the first medium, which is charging processing fee. Many other platforms keep charging this fee in some form or the other.
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