Reply To: India: Currensea and UPI

[sherlockholmes]

This is an interesting thread as I am an expat living in India. In general to use an international card for travel payments (where the vendor doesn’t accept international cards – i.e. Indigo) you can just use an OTA. I regularly use ixigo with an international card.

I have an Indian bank account and so use UPI the whole time, and not head of anyone using it with an international account. You can use Apple Pay in the higher end retailers and restaurants other wise for most other purchases of a significant value a normal international visa/mastercard (physical) works fine. I’ve never had to switch to my local card.

@masaccio – an issuer app would be any application that facilitates UPI. These are PayTM / Gpay / PhonePe (and more).