FreeCharge partners with payment gateway CCAvenue
BENGALURU: Snapdeal-owned digital payments platform FreeCharge has announced its partnership with payment gateway CCAvenue. The partnership will enable FreeCharge customers to have access to real-time, multi-currency online payment services as well as one lakh online merchants across sectors like hospitality, retail, education etc. Earlier this month, FreeCharge added a 'Chat and Pay' option that lets users make social payments (also known as Person-to-person or P2P payments) via its Android app. The feature also connects merchants and consumers to chat, shop and pay, i.e. Person-to-Merchant (P2M) payments. The feature, FreeCharge hopes will help make digital payments frictionless and expand its digital payment ecosystem to include new users like neighbourhood small shopkeepers, taxi services and merchants from unorganized sector without any investment. It also plans to allow merchants to upgrade their payment limits of Rs 1,00,000 with necessary KYC verification...