Fintech unicorn
Razorpay on Wednesday said it has partnership with global digital payments
major PayPal to enable seamless international payments for Indian micro, small
and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and freelancers.
The company's partner businesses can now integrate with
PayPal and accept payments from international customers from across 200 markets
in a convenient and secure manner, reducing wait time from days down to
minutes, Razorpay said.
The move comes at a time when leveraging digital technologies
has become more crucial for businesses than ever in view of the pandemic.
While the potential for MSMEs and freelancers continues to
grow, businesses still lose out on prospective global clients due to highly
complex payment and banking infrastructure, processes and systems in place that
lack seamless integration.
Traditionally, micro-entrepreneurs have found it difficult
to accept international payments on cards via payment gateways as many of them
could not pass the eligibility checks at the banks' end.
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By integrating PayPal into Razorpay's payment platform,
freelancers and MSMEs will now be able to accept international payments without
having to write a single line of code, Razorpay said.
"Partnering with a globally recognised organization
like PayPal with the expertise and experience of enabling digital payments for
SMEs and freelancers will allow us to further empower our businesses and open
new growth avenues for them not just within India but internationally,"
Amitabh Tewary, Chief Innovation Officer, Razorpay, said in a statement.
"We hope this partnership will help us serve our
resilient MSME customers better and enable them to gear up for the new
normal."
Razorpay last year launched its support for 100
International currencies via Internationally issued credit and debit cards.
The full-stack financial solutions company, which currently
powers payments for over eight million businesses, said it is witnessing a
40-45 per cent month-on-month growth.
