Flipkart partners with BillDesk to expand digital payment offering

E-commerce giant Flipkart has partnered with payment solutions business BillDesk to expand its digital payment solutions for shoppers. The Walmart-owned business has launched five new payment categories with BillDesk as part of a wider move towards cashless payments.

“We have diversified our selection of services in line with Flipkart’s vision to simplify the digital payments journey for customers and further the government’s vision of a cashless economy,” said Flipkart’s vice president of Payments and SuperCoins Gaurav Arora, India Retailing reported. “From buying their favourite products to addressing digital payment requirements, this enhancement has created a one-stop destination for customers to fulfil all their needs anytime, anywhere in a secure and seamless manner.”
 
With BillDesk, Flipkart has launched new recharge and bill payment categories including landline, broadband, and mobile postpaid bill payments as well as FasTag and DTH recharges, which can be completed on the Flipkart mobile app. These new services add on to preexisting services Flipkart offers such as prepaid mobile recharging and electricity bill payment.
 
The new payment services have been integrated, with BillDesk’s help, into the Bharat Bill Payments System, which was rolled out by the National Payments Corporation of India. Flipkart has expanded its payment options in numerous ways this year and also partnered with Axis Bank in March to launch its own United Payments Interface handle to facilitate both online and offline merchant transactions on Flipkart and beyond.