Users using Phonepe recharge online will not be charged if the recharge or plan amount is less than Rs 50. However, people who recharge with plans between Rs 50-100 will be charged an additional fee.
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- PhonePe will start charging a processing fee for credit card transactions.
- Users using PhonePe will not be charged if the recharge or plan amount is less than Rs 50.
- There are many third party apps and online wallets that allow users to recharge with prepaid / postpaid plans at their convenience.
There are many third party apps and online wallets that allow users to recharge with prepaid / postpaid plans at their convenience. One of the most popular apps among them in India is PhonePe. From now on, users who are recharging their SIMs using the PhonePe application will have to pay more.
PhonePe will charge a small processing fee to customers for each transaction made through the app. Therefore, mobile recharges will also require users to shell out extra cash. This is a strange development and makes PhonePe the first UPI-based application in India to charge a transaction processing fee.
Mobile recharges via PhonePe: Online mobile recharge PhonePe will now take so much extra money from users on mobile recharges.
According to PTI report, users using PhonePe will not be charged if the recharge or plan amount is less than Rs 50. However, people who recharge with plans between Rs 50-100 will be charged an additional Rs 1. Also, customers who opt for recharge plans above Rs 100 will have to shell out additional Rs 2 as a processing fee to PhonePe.
PhonePe will start charging a processing fee for credit card transactions. While PhonePe is many users' first choice, there are other apps you can go with if you don't want to pay the additional processing fee.
Apps like Google Pay, Paytm and others are there to help you recharge your phone number directly. In addition, you can also use your mobile operator's dedicated application directly for mobile phone recharges and pay via Internet banking or UPI.
This is certainly an interesting development. We may see other companies and apps do the same as PhonePe to charge a couple of extra rupees for transactions above a certain limit. The best thing users can do now is to use the mobile operator's dedicated phone app.
