The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on July 29, 2025, issued a notification regarding the discontinuation of the service of UPI Collect Request for Person-to-Person (P2P) transactions.
The following has been stated: -
•NPCI has announced that Person-to-Person (P2P) Collect transactions on UPI will be discontinued from October 01, 2025.
•This follows earlier guidelines on transaction limits issued in October 2019. All banks, PSPs, and UPI apps must update systems to block initiation, routing, or processing of such transactions.
•Necessary operational changes must be implemented before the deadline.
The detailed notification is given in the document below.
[Notification No. NPCI/UPI/OC/220/2025-26]