New Delhi: Google is actively working on a soundbox for the India market – similar to the Paytm or PhonePe you see at your neighborhood shop that gives sound alerts on digital payments made, media reports said on Tuesday. where did it go.
The search giant is piloting its own soundbox in the country to alert sellers for verification for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based payments, reports TechCrunch.
The company has branded them as ‘Soundpod by Google Pay’ and is currently distributing it as a pilot with some shopkeepers in North India including Delhi.
The report states that the SoundPods are being manufactured by Amazon-backed ToneTag.
“We are experimenting with a number of different solutions to make digital payments more convenient and seamless for users and merchants,” a Google spokesperson told IANS in a statement.
The merchant has a QR code with ‘SoundPod by Google Pay’, which is linked to Google Pay for their business account.
Users can use any UPI-based app to make payments by scanning the code.
UPI ended 2022 on a high note as the transaction volume touched a record 7.82 billion in December at Rs 12.82 trillion, again a record high.
According to data from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the transaction volume in December was 7.12 per cent higher than in November.