UPI hit by another outage, thousands of users report issues in payments

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) reported a disruption to services on Saturday, with thousands of users unable to complete payments and fund transfers. Digital payment platform Google Pay was also affected.According to Downdetector, complaints regarding UPI services surged were over 1,000 as of noon, with payments and fund transfers being the most reported problems.

This comes days after India's most widely used digital payment system experienced two major outages within a week's time, disrupting transactions and frustrating users nationwide.On March 26, UPI users across the country faced difficulties executing transactions due to what the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) described as an intermittent technical issue . NPCI, which operates the UPI network, acknowledged the issue and stated that the system has since been restored.



On April 2, Downdetector showed hundreds of outage reports, with about half of them related to fund transfers, while 44% involved payment failures..