UPI Services Hit by Another Outage, NPCI Says ‘Working to Resolve the Issue’

A serious outage on Saturday morning brought about Unified Payments Interface (UPI) companies to cease working throughout India, affecting 1000’s of shoppers. The UPI companies on a number of platforms, like Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay, Bhim, and extra, have been disrupted on account of this outage. Moreover, it additionally prolonged to main monetary establishments like HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and extra. Multiple customers throughout the nation reported that they might not transact utilizing UPI. This additionally marks the fourth disruption of UPI companies inside a month.

UPI Services Down in India

As per the newest information obtainable on DownDetector, greater than 2,000 folks reported the outage. Users started reporting points with UPI transactions round 11:26 AM IST, which peaked at 1:02 PM IST. This comes days after India’s most generally used digital cost system skilled two main outages inside every week.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has acknowledged this and issued an announcement on its official X deal with. The tweet reads, “NPCI is at the moment going through intermittent technical points, resulting in partial UPI transaction declines. We are working to resolve the difficulty and can maintain you up to date. We remorse the inconvenience brought about.”

 

NPCI is at the moment going through intermittent technical points, resulting in partial UPI transaction declines. We are working to resolve the difficulty, and can maintain you up to date.

We remorse the inconvenience brought about.

— NPCI (@NPCI_NPCI) April 12, 2025

 

UPI Services Suffer from Multiple Outages

This is the fourth time UPI companies have been disrupted within the nation. The first outage was reported on March 26, 2025, when customers of assorted UPI apps couldn’t transact for greater than three hours. The second main outage occurred on March 31. Users additionally reported bother on account of cost processing points, which NPCI clarified was on account of bank-side delays throughout the monetary year-end closing. Then once more, a short disruption occurred on April 2, 2025, on account of “latency within the UPI community.”

Multiple customers complained concerning the outage on social media platform X. “I’m caught within the airport with a delayed flight, a misplaced pockets with all my money and playing cards, after which I found UPI was additionally not accepting any funds,” one consumer reported. “UPI crashes are too typically lately, leaving many individuals caught. We depend on it day by day, however the system retains failing us,” one other X consumer posted.