Upi Outage

UPI 'collect requests' to end from October: here's how it changes payments

UPI New Rule form October: From October 1, you won't be able to send UPI collect requests to friends or family. Here's why NPCI is stopping the feature and what it means for your day-to-day payments.

UPI apps to limit balance checks, autopay from Aug 1: How changes help you

Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay and other such platforms will also set limits on account view and merchant verification in order to improve overall service

UPI transactions rebound in May with 18.68 bn payments; 33% yearly surge

The rebound follows a dip in April, when UPI volumes declined from 18.3 billion in March. That slump was attributed to multiple service disruptions that affected payment flows

PhonePe suffers UPI outage after conducting disaster recovery drills

PhonePe's UPI services went down for over an hour on Monday evening as peak traffic exposed a network capacity shortfall during cybersecurity preparedness drills

PhonePe records slight drop in UPI market share as April volumes fall

PhonePe's UPI market share slipped to 46.73 per cent in April amid a 2.22 per cent dip in total transactions on the real-time payments network

UPI outages: NPCI, banks working on durable solution to plug gaps

The current challenge stems from the extremely high frequency of transaction status API calls

Transaction declined: UPI outages raise tough questions for NPCI, RBI

To be fair, NPCI has done phenomenal work over the past decade. It has revolutionised digital payments in the country with about 600 million average daily UPI transactions

UPI outages lasted 282 minutes across two incidents in 2022, 2025

The longest outage, lasting 187 minutes, was in January 2022

Payment pains: UPI outages traced to tech glitches, backend failures

'Root-cause analysis' done, hardware replaced, member banks briefed on fixes