In India, where point-of-sale activity may become busy, soundboxes, the hardware used by merchants that generates sounds each time a mobile payment is completed, have gained popularity.
The vocal notifications from the soundbox help alert multitasking shopkeepers and assistants to a transaction going through. Google is now joining in to continue pushing forward with the development of its own payments company in the second-largest internet market in the world.
The internet giant is testing its own soundbox in India to notify sellers of confirmations for UPI payments, a mobile payment standard developed and now widely used in India for instant payments and transfers between banks, two mobile users, or a customer and a merchant. The internet giant is currently one of the leaders in mobile transaction volume in India with Google Pay.
Since providers of UPI payments normally do not take a cut from UPI transactions, soundboxes have become popular not just as a convenience for retailers but also as a revenue-generating tool for payment providers read the complete article Google is piloting its own soundbox in India for merchants to get audio-based payment alerts.
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