Now, know balance without even touching your phone - Here is how

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, merchant payment and lending network provider BharatPe on Monday launched two applications that will help account holders access transactions and balance without having to touch their phones.

Paisa Bolega

- With Paisa Bolega - voice alerts of transactions - shopkeepers will be able to hear aloud instant confirmation of all payments received through their BharatPe QR, without touching the phone.

- Paisa Bolega is a button introduced in BharatPe App. This converts the shopkeeper's smartphone into a loud speaker, announcing the value of transaction received.

- This does away the need for the merchant to check his phone repeatedly to see if money has come in, it said, adding that there will be no need to maintain any additional device.

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BharatPe Balance

- BharatPe Balance will give information about the total money available to the shopkeeper across deposits, loans and daily collections through quick response (QR).

- BharatPe Balance provides a single snapshot of the shopkeeper's daily QR collections, balance in 12 per cent interest a/c and the loan limit.

- This gives the shopkeeper single snapshot of his business and capital available to him, the company said.

During the lockdown, the company has seen business per merchant go up significantly as both customers and shopkeepers prefer contactless QR payments, BharatPe said in a release.  Average ticket size has gone up 70 per cent from Rs 300 to Rs 500 as customers shop more for essentials, albeit less frequently, it added.

Ashneer Grover, CEO and Co-Founder, BharatPe, said, "We believe in offering solutions that are affordable and easy to use. Our new instant voice alerts on transaction product ('Paisa Bolega') is free, compared to a competing payment player who is giving Chinese speaker devices to do the same voice alerts and is charging hundreds of rupees from merchants for it." Ashneer adds, "BharatPe is all about Indian software ingenuity over Chinese hardware. The shopkeeper's phone is all the hardware that he actually needs and is more capable than all point of sale (PoS) devices combined."