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Recurring payments in India

RBI e-mandate, UPI Autopay, Razorpay, and what actually clears.

• Recurring Payments in India: The RBI E-Mandate, Explained Start here

  How recurring payments actually work in India — the RBI e-mandate framework, the 24-hour pre-debit notification, the AFA limit, and what breaks if you ignore them.

• The RBI E-Mandate Limit and How It Should Shape Your Pricing

  The per-transaction limit for recurring payments in India decides whether renewals clear silently or need customer approval. Here is how to price around it.

• UPI Autopay for Subscriptions: How It Works for Merchants

  UPI Autopay lets Indian customers approve recurring debits from their UPI app. How the mandate flow works, the limits, and why it converts better than cards.

• GST on Subscriptions: Invoicing Every Renewal Correctly

  Each subscription renewal is a supply needing its own tax invoice. What a compliant GST invoice requires, and why most subscription apps only produce receipts.

• Pre-Debit Notifications: What You Must Send Before Every Charge

  India's recurring payment rules require notifying the customer 24 hours before every debit. What the notification must contain, and how to make it earn its keep.

• Shopify Subscriptions in India: What Actually Works

  Selling subscriptions on Shopify from an Indian store — payment rails, GST on renewals, pricing around the mandate limit, and the app choices that matter.

• Why Indian Subscription Payments Fail (And What Fixes Each One)

  Renewals fail differently in India. Mandate expiry, missing notifications, the AFA limit and revoked UPI mandates each need a different fix from a plain retry.