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Merchant of Record in India: Who Collects the INR, and Who Owes the GST
A merchant of record is the legal entity that sells to your customer. It takes the payment, appears on the card statement, carries the chargeback, and owes the sales tax. Most software companies use one so they can sell into forty countries without registering in forty countries. India splits that role in a way most markets do not, and the split is the thing to understand before you sign anything. Two facts decide everything below. A merchant of record based outside India cannot itself collect
50 Emerging Industries in India: 2026 Opportunity Map for Global Brands (And How to Get Paid)
If you’re a global brand, India is no longer a “someday” market, it’s one of the last truly large, fast‑growing consumer markets you can still enter early and meaningfully. Over the coming decades, the population is heading towards roughly 1.6 billion, but what matters more is the 300‑million‑plus Indians who already have the purchasing power to buy global products and subscriptions today. This middle class is not confined to Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. India’s consumer growth is decentralisi
Stripe for India: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Where Global Merchants Lose Indian Customers
If you already run your global stack on Stripe, India looks deceptively simple: turn on international cards, maybe UPI, and you’re done. In reality, India is now a UPI‑first market running on RBI‑specific rules and a new cross‑border regime (PA‑CB) that Stripe was never designed around. This article is for teams who trust Stripe globally, but are now looking at India seriously - SaaS founders, marketplaces, PSPs, and fintech infrastructure players who want to accept payments from India without
PayGlocal vs EximPe for Foreign Merchants: How Global Companies, PSPs and Fintechs Should Collect INR from India
India is now a market where serious foreign merchants treat “how do we collect INR via UPI and local methods, with offshore settlement, under RBI’s PA‑CB regime?” as a core strategy question, not a side project. PayGlocal and EximPe both sit in this new, regulated layer, the choice between them is less about “is this legal?” and more about whether your India checkout is card‑first or UPI‑first. Why INR collections from India now matter India is one of the fastest‑growing digital economies, wi
Razorpay vs EximPe for Foreign Merchants: PA‑CB Guide to Receiving Payments from India
India has quietly become one of the hardest markets to “get right” for foreign merchants: UPI is now the default way to pay, RBI has introduced a dedicated Payment Aggregator – Cross Border (PA‑CB) licence, and global card‑only setups simply don’t convert well anymore. At the same time, both Razorpay and EximPe now hold RBI PA‑CB authorisation and let foreign businesses collect from Indian customers in INR and settle into overseas bank accounts without a local entity. This article compares Razo
PayPal in India for Foreign Merchants: What Works, What’s Restricted, and Better Alternatives
If you treat India as “just another card market”, you will systematically underestimate how much revenue you can unlock here. UPI has become India’s default way to pay, with reports showing around 500 million users and tens of millions of merchants using it daily. At the same time, India’s cross‑border commerce is growing across SaaS, e‑commerce, digital content and B2B services, which makes “accept payments from India” a real product requirement for global companies, PSPs and fintechs. PayPal