Tech giant Google on Monday joined the bandwagon of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) -based payment apps launching its "Tez" app.
Tez, which means fast in Hindi, is a standalone payments app that can be downloaded on Android and iOS devices.
It is based on UPI -- a payments protocol built by government-backed National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI).
Apart from English and Hindi, "Tez" app supports various Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.
The user interface is fairly simple and the user is asked to sign into the application using the mobile number that is registered with the bank