PhonePe goes live across one million offline shops in eastern India

PhonePe, the country’s leading digital payments platform, has emerged as a live payment option across one million offline shops in the eastern region.

The payments platform has consolidated its presence in the eastern cities of Kolkata, Siliguri, Ranchi, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Guwahati. With a network of 80,000 offline shops, Bhubaneswar leads Phone Pe’s presence in Odisha where over 157,000 outlets accept it as a payment option. Likewise, Patna with 80,000 offline merchants leads PhonePe’s presence in Bihar, which boasts of 190,000 offline shops touched by the digital payments provider. In Jharkhand, 176,000 shops accept PhonePe as a payment option. The eastern state of Odisha accounts for a sixth of Phone Pe’s merchant base in the east.