Archive · 15 Sep 2025
20 Million UPI AutoPay Mandates Revoked Monthly Due to Failures
Imagine you set up automatic payments (AutoPay) on your phone for things like Netflix or loans.
Each month, the app tries to take money from your bank.
But sometimes, there's not enough money in your account.
When that happens, the payment fails.
In India, this happens a lot!
Over 20 million AutoPay payments fail every month because people don't have enough money.
This is happening with things like entertainment, loans, and investments.
Banks are seeing a lot of these failures, even though more people are signing up for AutoPay.
If you want to stop a payment, you can cancel it in the app you set it up with.
Over 20 million UPI AutoPay mandates are revoked monthly due to insufficient funds.
AutoPay is used for recurring payments like subscriptions, loan repayments, and investments.
Remitter banks recorded 50 million new AutoPay mandate registrations in July 2025.
Mandate execution more than doubled to 808 million in July 2025.
Business decline across top banks is nearly 74% due to insufficient funds.
- Who
- Users and Banks
- What
- Over 20 million AutoPay mandates on UPI are revoked each month due to insufficient funds.
- When
- Monthly data is cited. July 2024 and July 2025 data are mentioned.
- Where
- UPI platform in India.
- Why
- Because users don't have sufficient funds in their accounts to cover recurring payments.
- Monthly Revocations
- 20 million+
- Reason for Failure
- Insufficient Funds
- UPI Transactions (August)
- 151 million
- Transaction Value (August)
- Rs 77,000 crore (Rs 770 billion)
- New Mandate Registrations (July 2025)
- 50 million
- Mandate Executions (July 2025)
- 808 million
- Average Business Decline (Top 50 Banks)
- 74%