Over the last year, since demonitisation of ₹500 and ₹1000 notes, India has been trying to make a push to adopt digital, cash-free payments. While the number of online purchases from websites like Amazon and the usage of services like Uber has grown, brick-and-mortar retail businesses are slower in adopting digital money. Methods like credit cards, debits cards, digital wallets and UPI are widespread in the megacities and tourist hotspots, but non-existent in towns and villages. The main reason for this is the lack of awareness, no official documentation and an apprehension to adopt the unknown. I am writing a series of posts specific to India, where I show step-by-step examples on how to use set up and use different digital payments methods both as a customer and as a vendor. Continue reading “Making India cashless: Intro to a series of tutorials”