FreeCharge launches Coupons to boost User Engagement

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform has announced the launch of coupons on its e-wallet to enhance user engagement and reactivation. Through this initiative users can now benefit from every recharge & bill payment they make on FreeCharge and can select coupons worth the same amount that effectively leads to equivalent savings.

The company has tied up with prominent brands across all categories including food, shopping, travel, ticketing and entertainment to provide the users with array of options. To avail the facility the user has to simply recharge or pay bills using the FreeCharge app and click on ‘pick free coupons’ on the payment successful page. The next step is to choose one or more coupons from their favorite brands and redeem from ‘My Coupons’ option on the app. The facility is currently available on Android and will soon be launching on other platforms. 

The users can avail offers from over 100 brands such as Swiggy, Foodpanda, Zomato, Shoppers Stop, Puma, Van Huesen, Yatra, Goibibibo, Cleartrip, Bookmyshow, McDelivery and much more. The company will also be adding more categories including spas, restaurants and salons to provide more localized offers & services.

FreeCharge has also taken several strategic steps to bring added efficiency and sharpened focus on profitability. The company will be launching number of value added services and initiatives soon to create market differentiation. “Coupons is a step towards the journey of becoming most preferred option for digital payments for users’ in India,” added Ankit.

Book your movie and event tickets in less than 10 seconds with FreeCharge

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform announced its partnership with Tixdo to enable easy, safe and fast digital payment for users looking to book movies and events tickets across India.

Through this partnership, FreeCharge and Tixdo will be able to carter to millions of youth across 21 states and 137 cities. Users can now not just book tickets to their favourite movies and events happening or scheduled happen any place in India but also get exciting offers and discounts through Tixdo at pocket friendly prices.

FreeCharge is building an ecosystem of merchants to make consumers’ daily payment transactions frictionless and convenient. With this partnership, FreeCharge further expands its usability across more consumption buckets of its consumers.  This partnership will allow Tixdo instant access to millions of FreeCharge wallet users and will also offer avenues for forging other meaningful partnerships within the FreeCharge ecosystem.

Tixdo is a ticketing platform that allows customers to book tickets for movies and events through its website and app. Launched in 2016, Tixdo is a one-stop portal which gives discounts and offers to its customers. It’s a start-up which is popular among customers for quick booking and amazing discounts.

Refuel Your CNG Tanks Cashless With FreeCharge At MGL pumps

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform partners with Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL). The partnerships aims to enable consumers to make cashless payments using FreeCharge wallet at the CNG filling stations operated by MGL.

Mahanagar Gas Limited, one of India’s leading Natural gas distribution company provides CNG refuel services across Mumbai, Thane, Mira – Bhayender and Navi Mumbai with nearly 190 CNG gas filling stations. Customers refilling their vehicles at the MGL CNG pumps can opt for a swift and secure FreeCharge payments and complete their transaction in under 10 seconds.

To make the payment, the customer just needs to scan the QR code present at the refill pump, through their FreeCharge app and make payment using his/her FreeCharge wallet.

Commenting on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, CBO FreeCharge, said, “FreeCharge is constantly trying to transform the daily payment habits of consumers by helping them switch to digital payments, which is the most secure and swift way of paying. Through this partnership with Mahanagar Gas limited, we get a chance to serve the MGL customer base of various taxi, tempo, auto drivers and help them experience the ease and safety of the digital payments and hope to on-board them onto the Government of India’s vision of a Digital India.”

Now Go Cashless For All Your Travel Bookings Using FreeCharge On Yatra

FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform today announced its partnership with Yatra.com. With the partnership, FreeCharge consumers will be able to pay for bookings on Yatra, India’s leading online travel company & largest domestic hotels platform. Through this partnership FreeCharge aims to serve 4 million customer base and travel-related services including domestic & international flight ticket booking, holiday packages, bus tickets, hotel bookings, cab bookings, rail ticketing and other ancillary services. FreeCharge consumers can also book and pay for more than 61,000 hotels in over 1,100 cities across India using Yatra. 

In order to pay using FreeCharge, the user needs to shortlist the services he/she needs to book on Yatra.com website or App and select the FreeCharge wallet from the various payment options present on the payment page. With increasing income levels and lifestyle choices in India and digital shift in shopping patterns, online travel portals are emerging as a preferred channel for vacation and travel planning and booking. FreeCharge has presence in the travel category through associations with current partners like OYO Rooms, goibibo.com, cleartrip, travelyaari.com through which the users can book their travel and stay plans. Users can also book train tickets using irctc or book inter-city rides using redBus.in, BusIndia.com, MyBusTickets.in.

Speaking on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, CBO FreeCharge, said, “We are excited to be partnering with Yatra which provides our customers with increased booking & payments option in the travel & hospitality domain. Present day consumers are increasingly becoming aware of the e-wallet payments and the ease associated with the payment process which has led to a greater adoption of e-wallets. With FreeCharge’s 10-second payment process, Yatra users can now seamlessly pay for their bookings.  At the same time, this partnership will fulfil our endeavour of making the FreeCharge wallet an integral part in the life of our customers”

Sharat Dhall, President (B2C), Yatra.com said, “This partnership offers our customers another cashless payment option, and in turn, also offers Freecharge wallet users the option of using Yatra as their preferred travel provider. With Freecharge as our partner, we certainly anticipate a growth in customer acquisition as well as sales.”

Indus OS And FreeCharge Partner To Introduce OS Integrated Innovation

Two of India’s foremost innovative technology leaders – Indus OS, the World’s First Regional Operating System, and FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform – unveiled Recharge 2.0, a game-changing product integrated within the smartphone dialer interface today. 

Recharge 2.0 aims to bridge this gap and introduce features that provide comprehensive analysis on usage patterns alongside real-time updates to offer more control in the hands of pre-paid users. Powered by an OS-level integration pioneered by Indus OS, Recharge 2.0 encourages smart usage of prepaid balance along with a superior and intuitive mobile recharge experience powered by FreeCharge.

The OS-integrated payment innovation on Indus Dialer is seamless and accessible in the most natural interface, the phone dialer – moving beyond the app and web interfaces. The new Indus Dialer allows users one-touch access on the phone dialer to recharge through FreeCharge. It also allows instant information of current balance on the main dialer screen. The user can also analyse historical balance and compare daily, weekly and monthly balance usage across Talktime, Data and SMS. The user can set thresholds to receive low balance alerts. Additionally, expense of every call can be tracked within the call log and money spent on each contact can also be analysed, giving complete and accurate information to the user. 

Recharge 2.0 will be exclusively accessible to the existing 6 million plus Indus OS user base and new users of Indus OS powered-devices. Indus OS is currently the #2 mobile OS in India, with a 7.6% market share. By catering to Indus OS’ user base via the OS-Integrated Brands, FreeCharge expects to scale up its recharge transactions and volumes by nearly 20%. FreeCharge currently sees a major chunk of its transaction coming through the recharge’s category.

Faridabad Skyway Go Cashless With FreeCharge

FreeCharge has announced that it is now live on the Delhi – Faridabad Skyway, which connects Delhi with Faridabad.

Users can now pay toll charges via FreeCharge on Delhi-Faridabad Skyway, which is used by thousands of commuters everyday as it provides the fastest link to Faridabad from parts of South Delhi and Noida. In order to make a payment, the customer has to scan the QR code displayed at the toll counter using his app and enter the payment amount to complete the transaction.

The recent demonetization drive has led to the suspension of toll collection and reintroduction has led to traffic delays due to paucity of change at toll points. With the acceptance of FreeCharge for payment of toll at the Delhi – Faridabad Skyway, the problems associated with cash collection and tendering of change will be resolved to a large extent.

Last month FreeCharge had shared that users on the 165 km long Yamuna Expressway, which links Delhi to Agra could pay their toll charges using FreeCharge.

Now book Railway Tickets On IRCTC With FreeCharge Wallet

FreeCharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform has announced partnership with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to provide digital payments for ticket bookings. The partnership will further strengthen the payment process at IRCTC and offer a fast and convenient digital payments experience to its customers through the FreeCharge wallet both during normal and tatkal hours.

IRCTC processes over 180 million transactions on its platform and now with this partnership with FreeCharge, customers can pay anytime, anywhere in less than 10 seconds.

Speaking on the partnership, Govind Rajan, Chief Executive Officer, FreeCharge, said, “We are delighted to partner with IRCTC and be a part of their journey to make customer’s travel experience frictionless and convenient in every way. With this partnership, we further expand our reach in commute and travel segment. FreeCharge is the fastest way to pay and we believe that will offer immense value for users booking at IRCTC. Our aim is to make FreeCharge wallet all pervasive in customer’s lives.”

FreeCharge Zero Cost Offer For Business Shakes Up Market

India's fastest growing digital payments platform, FreeCharge’s, Zero Cost offer for merchants has created tremendous buzz amongst the merchants.

In one swift stroke, FreeCharge completely removed the initial set-up charges and also the commission charged to merchants on each transaction. To make the complete digital payments process completely free, it also waived the charge for transferring funds from the FreeCharge wallet to the merchant’s bank. This unbeatable offer led to a sharp increase in the number of merchants signing up to start receiving payments through FreeCharge.

The level of user interest can be seen from the fact that nearly 60% of the merchants who signed up over the last 2 days, received their first digital payment within one hour of starting their FreeCharge wallet. The largest number of sign-ups are from self-employed professionals and food delivery joints.

Freecharge Partners With Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform, has partnered with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for cashless payments for LPG cylinder deliveries across the country.

The pilot project for this is already live with multiple distributors in Bangalore, Chandigarh, Raipur and Kolkata. By the end of March 2017, the project is expected to cover the entire IOCL network comprising nearly 8000 dealerships across India.

Once the roll out is complete, every IOCL consumer will have the option to pay for the LPG deliveries using their Freecharge wallet. At the point of delivery, customers will be able to complete payment for their LPG cylinders within 10 seconds and at the tap of a button. The payment will get completed even without Internet connectivity, since Freecharge’s On-The-Go-Pin works even in offline mode.

Freecharge partners with Axis Bank to launch UPI payments

Freecharge has partnered with Axis Bank to launch Unified Payments Interface (UPI) enabled payment on its Android app.  UPI will enable instant transactions from a smartphone using a virtual payment address (VPA). 

Consumers will be able to create a virtual address on the Freecharge Android app and link it to their bank account to register on the UPI platform. This feature will allow consumers to pay on Freecharge in a secure and swifter way for transactions in the first phase and over the next few weeks.

Since this option is only available on the new version of Android app, users will have to upgrade to the latest version of the Android app to see this option while doing recharges/bill/utility payments.

Customers can create multiple handles/VPA linked to their bank accounts. The merchant or beneficiary will only be able to see the customer VPA in this process. Consumers can register for UPI through Freecharge app. Freecharge will also be driving registrations through other channels such as e-mails, notifications and campaigns.  

Now Pay At Zomato With Freecharge

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform, has partnered with restaurant platform Zomato to offer swift and secure digital payment option to food lovers.

Customers across 10 cities can now seamlessly pay for their Online Food orders, in less than 10 seconds using the Freecharge digital wallet - across all the platforms on Zomato.

Through this partnership Freecharge will enable thousands of consumers who place an average of 32,000 orders a day, across over 11,000 restaurants  on Zomato, to adopt digital wallet.

Zomato’s food ordering business has crossed the 1-million-order-a-month mark and customers across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, and Jaipur leverage their services.

Freecharge Partners With PayUbiz

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform has partnered with the payment gateway solution provider, PayUbiz, to further strengthen its merchant base and help consumers move from cash to digital payments. 

This integration allows Freecharge to tap PayUbiz’s more than 10, 000 online merchants. The partnership draws Freecharge closer its vision of creating an ecosystem where organized and unorganized merchant networks can accept electronic payments through one secure platform. 

The Freecharge wallet is currently accepted at over 1, 00,000 merchants in India. Customers paying through the Freecharge wallet will also be able to avail exclusive offers and additional discounts on spends at the registered merchants. 

 

Freecharge Launches Escrow Services

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform has unveiled a buyer protection service by launching escrow facility for merchants and customers. The escrow service mitigates risk of unsuccessful shopping experiences and safeguards customers’ money by withholding funds till they receive the right product.

The first merchant for this service, Shopo, has integrated Freecharge wallet on its app to offer escrow protection to its buyers and sellers. After buyers place orders by paying through Freecharge, the seller is notified that the buyer has completed the payment, and money is on hold in escrow. 

Once the order is delivered to the buyer, the money is automatically released to the seller. In case the order is not shipped or delivered within the stipulated time, the money is refunded to the buyer’s wallet. Sounds good to us.
   

Freecharge Partners With HPCL Petrol Pumps

Freecharge, India’s fastest digital payments platform has announced its partnership with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a leading state-owned oil company figuring in the Forbes 2000 and Fortune 500 list. 

Customers can now pay for their fuel bills at the HPCL petrol pumps using the Freecharge wallet in less than 10 seconds by generating the OnTheGo Pin even in the absence of internet connectivity making the whole transaction process seamless and swifter.

In the first phase, this facility will be available at over 60 company owned petrol pumps spread across 10 states, namely, Maharashtra, Delhi, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Over the next few months, customers will be able to use the Freecharge Wallet at over 4500 petrol pumps across the country.

Freecharge Becomes First Digital Payments App To Launch On Windows 10

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform will now be available on Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 10. Freecharge is the first company in the digital payments space to launch a unified app for the Windows platform.   

Consumers can download the Freecharge app from the Windows store and experience an adaptive layout coupled with a great user interface on screens of all sizes including tablets, laptops, and desktops. The app has adaptive tiles that showcase contextual data to users. While the normal tile displays the wallet balance, the wide tile indicates the wallet balance and also provides users with reminders on deals and offers. The large tile displays the details of most recent transactions undertaken by customers. 

Freecharge will be launching the Windows 10 app for Smartphones next month. With every new product, Freecharge is creating new industry benchmarks making Freecharge wallet ubiquitous in consumers’ daily lives.

Now Customers can go cashless with Freecharge at Haldirams

Freecharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform has partnered with Haldirams to ease payment process for consumers and introduce a swifter and secure way to make cashless payments.  

The Freecharge wallet can now be used to pay at 41 Haldirams outlets across 11 cities in India. Customers can use their mobile phones to make payments and complete the transaction with a secure On-The-Go-Pin in less than 10 seconds.

Earlier this year, Freecharge also partnered with McDonalds and Café Coffee Day to influence the daily payment habits of consumers and get them used to digital payments.  

FreeCharge Users Can Now Send And Receive Money Through WhatsApp

FreeCharge has announced today that its users can now simply whatsapp money to each other. This pioneering innovation by Freecharge is expected to make digital payments convenient and frictionless for hundreds of millions of new users, given the huge popularity that WhatsApp enjoys in India.

The engineering team at FreeCharge is continuously building new and innovative ways to make payments faster, convenient and frictionless. This recent innovation by Freecharge enables consumers on Android platform to use the Chat-n-Pay service to send and receive money in a secure way in less than 10 seconds through chat platforms like WhatsApp. 

How to activate Freecharge on WhatsApp:

1) Go to "Freecharge on WhatsApp" from the Freecharge menu
2) Click "Enable" to enable Freecharge in accessibility settings
3) Open WhatsApp
4) Type amount followed by FC. Eg: 100FC
5) Choose your options - send/request money or recharge!

FreeCharge Partners With RedBus

FreeCharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform now makes it faster and more convenient for travellers to book their bus instantly on redbus.in. 

With FreeCharge, now customers can pay anytime, anywhere in less than 10 seconds in a swifter and secure way across all platforms of redBus.in.

Online bus ticket booking has become a boon for regular travellers. With this partnership, redBus.in will get instant access to millions of wallet users and leverage the best-in-class payment gateway from FreeCharge. 

FreeCharge now will be part of the ever-growing mobile bus ticket booking market and revolutionize the industry with its fastest check out experience.