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GPay and Paytm Stopped This Free Facility, Now Customers Will Have To Pay Extra Charge
If you also use applications like Google Pay, Paytm, or PhonePe for mobile recharge, then there is big news for you. Till now you could recharge for free in Google Pay and Paytm, but now you will have to pay a convenience fee for mobile recharge.
India is making rapid progress in the world of technology. The digital payment business has grown at rocket speed in India. Today, Paytm, Google Pay, and PhonePe are being used extensively for money transactions. These three apps have become the major UPI apps in the country today. With their help, people do many important tasks like recharge, bill payment, flight booking, insurance, and electricity bill payment. If you also use them, then let us tell you that a very important update has come regarding these apps.
Let us tell you that there are lakhs of people who use these apps only for mobile recharge. Till now the facility of mobile recharge on these apps was completely free, but now you will have to pay some fees for recharging. This means that these apps will now charge convenience fees from customers for mobile recharge.
Fees will have to be paid for this work also
Not only mobile recharge but if you add money to your Paytm wallet, you will also have to pay a convenience fee for it. The amount of this convenience fee will depend on how much money you are adding to the account. Similarly, to recharge different recharge vouchers, you will have to pay different convenience charges.
According to media reports, like Paytm, Google Paytm has also started charging convenience fees to customers. The bigger the recharge you do or the more money you add to the wallet, the higher the convenience fee you will be charged.
Let us tell you that PhonePe has been charging convenience fees to users for a long time. Now Google Pay and Paytm app have also started following its path. Till now, users had many options to recharge for free, but now they will have to pay a convenience fee for recharge on all three platforms.