Uber India goes live on BHIM / UPI

Uber India announced a comprehensive Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM)/Unified Payments Interface (UPI) integration in partnership with NPCI and banking partners Axis Bank and HDFC Bank in New Delhi on August 23, 2017. Hailing the impact that new-age fintech solutions such as BHIM/UPI can make, as a first step, Uber offered its riders the option to use their existing UPI IDs to pay for their rides in July 2017. The second phase of Uber's UPI integration will be a comprehensive roll-out which will allow riders to create UPI IDs using the Uber app. With over 9.4 million Uber trips a week in India this July, the potential for encouraging adoption of UPI across riders is immense. The drivers will benefit from this integration as well.Through the steadfast adoption of BHIM over the next few weeks among its 2,85,000 weekly active drivers, the move will additionally enable over 4,50,000 registered drivers on the Uber platform to experience the power of UPI.