BharatPe topples Google Pay to become #3 in UPI Payments Space

BharatPe is one of India’s largest merchant payments company. The startup, today announced that it has become the 3rd largest player in the Merchant UPI payment acceptance space. The company has recorded INR 3,334 crores (US$ 479 million) in transaction value for the month of November. Thus, it has displaced Google Pay from the third position. The company shared that it processed 6.15 crores transactions in November 2020.

BharatPe has been outgrowing the market. Currently, it has doubled its market share in the UPI P2M merchant payment acceptance category since April 2020. In November 2020, it reached an all-time high 5% market share by transaction value; 7% market share by transaction volume. The volume of transactions processed by BharatPe standalone last month is greater than the combined UPI P2M transaction volume of major online platforms. These include JIO, Zomato, Swiggy, CRED, FlipKart, Cashfree, IRCTC and MPL.

From the leaders

Talking about the milestone, Mr Ashneer Grover, Co-Founder and CEO, BharatPe, said,

“BharatPe is an Indian startup and it is a proud moment for us to displace a global behemoth like Google Pay from the No. 3 position. The offline retail market is, in order of magnitude, larger than the online/ecommerce market in a country like India and digitizing fast. BharatPe’s differentiated financial services proposition focused at the merchant outweighs all other services being targeted by other UPI / VAS players. Big congratulations to BharatPe team for having delivered growth in 26 / 28 months since inception and growing 4X through COVID!”

Mr Suhail Sameer, Group President, BharatPe added,

“The BharatPe team is extremely excited and enthused with this achievement. We are gearing up for new challenges and are committed to empower merchants to scale their business. Now, we have bigger targets ahead of us. We intend to grow our business five times in the next 2 years, to cross US$ 30 bn TPV. Thus, we are bullish on lending and aim to disburse loans of US$1 bn to small merchants and kiranas by 2023.”

About BharatPe

BharatPe offers a range of fintech products to help small merchants grow their business. These include industry’s first interoperable UPI QR with zero transaction fee; a range of credit and insurance products, the POS machine and digital gold. Also, it offers attractive collateral-free loans of upto Rs. 7 lakhs at competitive interest rates to merchants. BharatPe has a unique loan hybrid repayment model with a combination of daily QR/ POS collection and weekly payments made directly from the bank account to the merchants availing loans. The company announced its aggressive expansion plans across Tier-1, 2 and 3 cities in the country. The company is currently present in 50+ cities and plans to scale up its presence to 65 cities by Mar 2021.