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Unified Payments Interface (UPI)

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The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a real-time interbank payment system designed and operated by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It enables immediate fund transfers between bank accounts through a mobile application, using a Virtual Payment Address (VPA) as the primary identifier in place of a bank account number and IFSC code. NPCI launched UPI on 11 April 2016 with twenty-one partner banks after a soft launch and testing phase that ran through the preceding months.

UPI 2.0 mandate explained

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This article is a focused explainer on the UPI 2.0 mandate as it functions in the context of an IPO (Initial Public Offering) application in India. For the full encyclopedic treatment of the mandate construct across all use cases, see UPI mandate. For step-by-step instructions on approving a mandate in a UPI app, see How to approve a UPI mandate for an IPO application.

What is a UPI 2.0 mandate?

A UPI 2.0 mandate is a future-dated, pre-authorised payment instruction introduced in UPI version 2.0, released by NPCI in August 2018. In the IPO context, it is a one-time block mandate: the investor pre-authorises a debit of up to the bid amount from their bank account on the date of mandate creation, but no money leaves the account immediately. Instead, the bank places a lien (block) on the funds. The actual debit occurs only if and when the investor is allotted shares.

UPI mandate

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A UPI mandate is a future-dated payment authorisation under the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework. It allows a payer’s bank to pre-authorise a debit of up to a specified maximum amount from the payer’s account on a specified future date or on a recurring schedule, without requiring the payer to re-enter a UPI PIN at the time of each debit. The mandate construct was introduced in UPI 2.0, released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in August 2018.