UPI transactions rose over 3 per cent to 6.78 billion in September from a month earlier, NPCI data showed on Saturday.
In August 2020, the total number of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) based digital financial transactions stood at 6.57 billion (657 crore).
In value terms, 6.78 billion (678 crore) transactions last month matched transactions worth Rs 11.16 lakh crore, as against Rs 10.73 lakh crore in August, according to data from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
In July, India processed 6.28 billion UPI transactions worth Rs 10.62 lakh crore.
UPI is becoming a preferred medium among users and is an easy to use, fast and secure payment method.
Among other payment methods under the NCPI umbrella, instant inter-bank payments through IMPS stood at Rs 462.69 million (46.27 crore) in September, slightly lower than Rs 466.91 million (46.69 crore) in the previous month.
It was 460.83 crores (46.03 crores) in July. Aadhaar number based AEPS transactions stood at 102.66 million in September as against 105.65 million a month ago. In July, 110.48 million AePS transactions took place.
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