Add more reasons to go cashless for food, electricity and telecom payments
December 09, 2016: Lending support to the government’s mission of promoting cashless transactions, FreeCharge, India’s fastest growing digital payments platform, today announced additional incentives for its users.
The Ministry of Finance had yesterday announced a 0.75% discount on digital transactions at fuel stations and a 10% discount at the toll plazas for digital payments.
Adding more reasons to go cashless, FreeCharge announced additional incentives for FreeCharge users across categories such as electricity payments, food deliveries and phone / data recharges.
FreeCharge is accepted at more than 25 utility companies covering cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Indore, Nagpur, Noida, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Bhagalpur, Jabalpur, Bodhgaya and in states and union territories like Chattisgarh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Telangana and Daman & Diu. FreeCharge users in these areas will get cashback when they pay their electricity bills using FreeCharge.
FreeCharge had recently announced that food & beverage payments on its platform had grown 12 times in the past one month. To thank its users for this phenomenal growth, it announced 25% cashback on food orders placed through Zomato, Foodpanda and Swiggy and paid through FreeCharge.
In addition, users will get a 10% cashback on 3G data and prepaid recharges done through the FreeCharge wallet.
Speaking on the development, Govind Rajan, CEO, Freecharge said, “ The bold move by the Government of India has brought about a paradigm shift and an evolution stage in the payments landscape. It’s heartening to see it being matched with incentives to ease the consumer shift and we are committed to back it up with more reasons to go cashless.”
FreeCharge, is accepted at all the touchpoints identified by the government to move towards a less cash economy. FreeCharge recently announced its national level partnership with all the three major oil marketing companies including IOCL, HPCL and BPCL, which will cover more than 53,000 petrol pumps across India. Freecharge also recently announced going live at various toll expressways including the Yamuna expressway, Badarpur-Faridabad toll and shared plans to go live across 500 others toll points by January 2017.
About Freecharge:
Freecharge is India’s fastest growing digital payments platform. Consumers across the country use Freecharge to make prepaid, post-paid, DTH and Electricity bill payments for numerous utility service providers in addition to leading online and offline merchants. Freecharge is PCI DSS compliant for information security and is at the forefront of the mobile commerce revolution with over 90 per cent of transactions originating from mobile. Freecharge Go, the virtual card was launched in January 2016, making Freecharge wallet the universally accepted wallet in India. For more details, please visit https://www.Freecharge.com or download the Freecharge app.
