UPI Payment In India: Has it ever happened to you that you are in the middle of sending money online using Google Pay, Paytm, PhonePe, or any other UPI payment service, and your Internet connection stops working for some reason? If yes, then a USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) based mobile banking service can be really helpful for you. It lets you request and send money, change UPI PIN and even check account balance without internet connection.
*99# Service provides banking service for all across the country . It is offered by 83 banks and 4 mobile operators and can be accessed in 13 different languages including Hindi and English. Here is how you can set it up and make offline UPI payments. For UPI payments without internet, first it is necessary that your number should be registered with UPI and the same number should be linked to your bank account. Must be connected. From the same number you can use *99# service.
- How to make UPI payments using *99#
- Open the dial button on the smartphone and type * 99#, after this you have to touch the call button.
- In the popup menu you will get a message in which 7 new options will come and by tapping on 1 number, the option of send money will come. Tap on it.
- Type the number of the person who wants to make the payment and select the option of send money.
- Enter the mobile number associated with the UPI account and click on send money Tap.
- Enter the amount you want to send in numeric and then send money and enter the UPI PIN.
- In the popup the reason for the payment will be that you Why are you making the payment, then write it like rent, loan or shopping bill etc.
- Tell you that this service is not free, once it is used 50 paise has to be charged. The most important thing is that currently only up to Rs 5000 can be sent through this service.
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