Several Customers Face UPI Transaction Failures as Few Banks Hit by Technical Glitch

Several customers took to X (previously Twitter) to assert that UPI transactions weren’t going by. In a tweet, the National Payments Corporation of India or NPCI, confirmed that some banks had been hit by an outage, inflicting UPI transaction failures. 

“Regret inconvenience on UPI connectivity as few of the banks are having some internal technical issues. NPCI systems are working fine and we are working with these banks to ensure quick resolution,” wrote NPCI on X. 

Downdetector, an internet site that tracks real-time outages of companies, confirmed a number of banks hit by an outage, together with HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda, SBI, Kotak and Bank of India. The outage tracker web site additionally confirmed some points in Google Pay companies; nonetheless, the corporate clarified that this generally occurs resulting from heavy site visitors on financial institution servers. 

At the time of scripting this submit, HDFC Bank, in a tweet on X, confirmed that the transactions have been going by. However, the corporate acknowledged that the outage impacted companies.

We skilled some difficulties on UPI which appears to be half of a bigger ecosystem. We are again in operations now and remorse any inconvenience confronted.

— HDFC Bank (@HDFC_Bank) February 6, 2024

Here are some posts by customers on X:

Hi @HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares seems to be like your funds system is down.. UPI not working throughout any app.

— Ritesh Bendre (@GadgetFreak4U) February 6, 2024

UPI down?

— Manish Virgat (@manish_virgat) February 6, 2024

Hey @HDFC_Bank

If your UPI servers are down for some sort of upkeep or some technical breakdown, no less than have the courtesy to share a communication.

— Varadraj Adya (@varadadya) February 6, 2024

Gadgets 360 workforce additionally tried utilizing UPI cost utilizing HDFC Bank, SBI, and Kotak financial institution accounts however confronted points. We count on the technical glitch to be resolved in just a few hours, as claimed by NPCI.