- First of its kind initiative that can revolutionize cashless payment at point of sale due to large customer base of UPI Apps and Wallets
- Customer can avail offer of choice and make cashless payment from their preferred mode
Mumbai, August 23, 2017: YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector Bank has partnered with BonusHub to enable acceptance of UPI, BHIM and multiple mobile wallets including YES Pay, Idea Money, Jio Money, mPesa, Ola Money, Citrus, Airtel Money, Freecharge and Oxigen on its Point-Of-Sale Terminals across its the network of merchants to facilitate cashless payments for consumers. The convenience of paying directly at merchant stores with UPI Apps and Wallets, will facilitate deeper penetration of digital payments.
This solution offers multitude of benefits, some of which are listed below:
| Customer Benefits | Merchant Benefits | UPI Payment Service Provider & Wallet Issuers |
| Make cashless payment, where they can choose from a bouquet of Wallets & UPI Apps to transact with consistent experience
Avail the best offer running on their preferred mode of payment
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Single window alliance for acceptance of UPI & multiple wallets, as well as settlement & reconciliation Receive payments directly to Bank Account, securely overcoming lack of interoperability No maximum limit on transactions that can be accepted, since the settlement happens in Bank account |
Roll out across thousands of transacting Merchants of YES BANK, lower Merchant Acquisition Cost
The solution takes away field operations and settlement related tasks
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Speaking about the partnership, Pralay Mondal, Country Head – Retail & Business Banking at YES BANK said, “Given our commitment to be the leader in digital payments and support the initiatives of RBI for making digital payments readily acceptable across the evolving payments ecosystem, we are thrilled to partner with BonusHub. This partnership will go a long way in not only empowering YES BANK merchants to overcome the current challenges in the cash only world, but also ensure that YES BANK remains technologically nimble and able to adapt to new emerging payment modes in future as well, thereby keeping its merchants ahead in an increasingly competitive market through smarter POS solutions. We will soon be launching Bharat QR on BonusHub to further this initiative.”
Commenting on the association, Pran Mehra, Founder and Executive Director at BonusHub and formerly Country Manager at VeriFone India said “In a fast evolving payments ecosystem with renewed focus on cashless payments, we envision a market where any Payment Acceptance System including fixed and mobile devices, QR Codes or any other emerging systems must be capable of accepting various form factors like cards, wallets, UPI, mVisa, MasterPass QR, Aadhar etc. for payments, without technological limitations and no compromise on security or convenience of the end consumer. This alliance is a major step in that direction, which would go a long way in achieving the industry-wide objective of digitization of cash transactions. This is a first of its kind partnership in the industry and we are thrilled that it is with YES BANK.”
Financial services delivery and access are undergoing a massive change with consumers demanding greater convenience and customer experience in the way they bank, pay and shop. With this new offering, YES BANK merchants shall avail additional acceptance opportunities across digital instruments with simplicity and complete security. YES BANK aims to enable acceptance of digital payment instruments including UPI, BHIM and Wallets through this platform, across more than 80,000 of YES BANK’s merchants by the end of the financial year.
BonusHub, once configured into a PoS machine, essentially works like a mobile application. BonusHub caters to a wide variety of merchants, ranging from small and medium businesses to large enterprises across industry verticals. A key advantage of the solution is the flexibility to empower the basic payment acceptance and digital transactions through a Point-Of-Sale Terminal.
About YES BANK
YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector Bank with a pan India presence across all 29 states and 7 Union Territories of India, headquartered in the Lower Parel Innovation District (LPID) of Mumbai, is the outcome of the professional & entrepreneurial commitment of its Founder Rana Kapoor and its Top Management team, to establish a high quality, customer centric, service driven, private Indian Bank catering to the future businesses of India.
YES BANK has adopted international best practices, the highest standards of service quality and operational excellence, and offers comprehensive banking and financial solutions to all its valued customers.
YES BANK has a knowledge driven approach to banking, and offers a superior customer experience for its retail, corporate and emerging corporate banking clients. YES BANK is steadily evolving as the Professionals’ Bank of India with the long term mission of becoming “INDIA’s FINEST QUALITY BIG BANK by 2020”.
About BonusHub
Founded in 2016, BonusHub was established with a simple philosophy to eliminate cash, empower banks and financial institutions to constantly evolve and play a pivotal role in digitising payments and transactions by being an integral part of the growing digital ecosystem. BonusHub, a future ready digital platform ensures that the transactions are conducted in the most efficient, simple and secure manner while enriching the customer experience. BonusHub is a digital payments platform that allows service providers and fintech organisations to seamlessly integrate and transact with one another.