NPCI facilitates all digital payments in India and the international leg of the organisation (NIPL) partnered with Worldline allowing Indian travellers to pay via UPI throughout Europe.

This will increase the ease of access for travellers on the continent. It will also affect the footfall of Indian travellers giving it a boost.

Worldline follows a QR-code-based mechanism which will let the store owner’s point-of-sale (POS) system accept the UPI payments done by Indian travellers from their phones directly.