Paytm To Allow Smartphone-based NFC Card Payments For Merchants

Paytm will soon facilitate merchants to use android smartphones to receive Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled debit and credit card payments from the 'Paytm for Business' App. Powered by Software Point-of-Sale (SoftPoS) technology, the fintech major's latest multilingual service, dubbed 'Paytm Smart POS', modifies a smartphone to accept payments by simply tapping the card on the phone's back. Reportedly, Paytm has already tested its soft-PoS offering in over 150 Indian cities.