Tez, the UPI based payments app will now come with an inbuilt bill payment feature which will allow users to pay for broadband, gas, electricity, DTH and more.
Google has announced a new bill payments feature for its UPI-based app, Tez. The company hosted its third annual Google for India event today, where Caesar Sengupta, Vice President, Next Billion Users initiative at Google said that Tez, starting today, will support a “customized experience” for paying bills from within the app. He also announced that the app’s user base will touch the 12 million mark in a few days.
The new feature in the Tez app will initially support more than seventy billers. It will support bill payments for Tata DoCoMo, Tata Power, Airtel, DishTV, ACT Fibernet, water, gas and other utility providers. The bill pay feature will remind users when their bill is due and will automatically update the payment status after a transaction. The feature will start rolling out gradually over the next month.
Further, Google announced that the Tez app has carried out over 140 million transactions since launch. The app was announced in India on September 18 and the company revealed that more than 5.25 lakh merchants are already using the app. Sengupta said, citing NPCI and internal Google data, that in the October-November period, nearly 70 percent of transactions on BHIM UPI were performed over Tez.
Google also announced the Android Oreo (Go Edition) and its digital assistant for the JioPhone. The former is a light-weight Android version designed for smartphones with RAM between 512MB to 1GB, which will allow for a smoother overall Android experience. The JioPhone is now the first feature phone to feature the Google Assistant. The smart assistant will also recognise Hindi voice commands and will replace the Jio Voice app on the handset. You can read more about the Android Oreo (Go Edition) here and about the Google Assistant on JioPhone here.
ICYMI, here are all the things we learned about Tez at #GoogleForIndia today. pic.twitter.com/MoOYg3tJej
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