RuPay Card Acceptance

Amongst the many benefits of RuPay debit card, the most important is that it can be used for online purchases. RuPay is India’s answer to the widely used Visa, AmEx and others which have dominated the online shopping marketplace over decade including India. However things have now changed and India has got it’s own payment gateway system and differs from international gateways.

Here are the merchants accepting RuPay card for online shopping:

eCommerce Sites: Over 15000 online shopping sites in India allows Indian consumers to purchase stuffs from their site using RuPay debit card. You can use the card at these biggest online merchants:

• Flipkart
• Snapdeal
• Amazon
• Future Bazaar
• Home Shop 18
• Watchcart
• Lenskart
• Coke2Home

Travel Booking: Apart from online shopping, card holders can use it for air travel booking at Jet Airways and train reservation booking at IRCTC.

Utility Bill Payment: For paying your electricity and telephone bills. Recharging your data card at JustRechargeIt.com

Entertainment: Booking movie tickets has now become more easy as BookMyShow also accepts this card

LIC: Premium payment

You can also swap this card at restaurants and malls. Also see how to use RuPay card for online purchase. On 24March2015, IRCTC UBI RuPay Pre-Paid Debit card was launched for booking train tickets.

Latest update – Virtual RuPay Card to be launched in 2015.