FreeCharge, Yatra sync for travel-based cashless payments

NEW DELHI: FreeCharge, India’s leading digital payments platform has announced its partnership with Yatra.com. With this partnership, FreeCharge consumers will be able to pay for bookings on Yatra, one of India’s leading online travel company and domestic hotels platform.

Through this partnership FreeCharge aims to serve 4 million customer base and travel-related services including domestic & international flight ticket booking, holiday packages, bus tickets, hotel bookings, cab bookings, rail ticketing and other ancillary services. FreeCharge consumers have the can also book and pay for more than 61,000 hotels in over 1,100 cities across India using Yatra.

In order to pay using FreeCharge, the user needs to shortlist the services he/she needs to book on Yatra.com website or App and select the FreeCharge wallet from the various payment options present on the payment page.

Speaking on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, CBO FreeCharge, said, “ We are excited to be partnering with Yatra which provides our customers with increased booking & payments option in the travel & hospitality domain. Present day consumers are increasingly becoming aware of the e-wallet payments and the ease associated with the payment process which has led to a greater adoption of e-wallets. With FreeCharge’s 10-second payment process, Yatra users can now seamlessly pay for their bookings. At the same time, this partnership will fulfil our endeavour of making the FreeCharge wallet an integral part in the life of our customers.”