{
  "id": 7749384,
  "title": "Only 17% Merchants Willing To Accept 0.4% MDR On UPI Payments Above ₹2,000: Survey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/only-17-merchants-willing-to-accept-0-4-mdr-on-upi-payments-above-2",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T07:56:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/only-17-merchants-willing-to-accept-04-mdr-on-upi-payments-above-2000-survey"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Only 17% of merchants and businesses are prepared to absorb a 0.4% merchant discount rate (MDR) on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions exceeding ₹2,000, according to a LocalCircles survey. The survey gathered more than 32,000 responses from merchants across 242 districts, covering businesses from different parts of India. Around 48% of participants were from Tier-I districts, 33% from…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}