Technology Specifications

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Technology Specifications

As part of monitoring the payments ecosystem, we study technology systems that power payments landscape. Listed here is publicly available documentation related to payment systems / supporting infrastructure. If you find something missing that is a good addition, please let us know through contact and we will be glad to add to this library.

S.No Payment System Specification Archive Comments
1 Unified Payments Interface Spec 1.0 Archive V1.0 released in 2015. v2.0 in 2018 has not been made public
2 UPI - Deep linking Specification Spec 1.6 Archive V1.6 released in Nov 2017, v2.0 with signature support has not been made pubic
3 Bharat Bill Payment System Spec 13.0 Archive Effective V2 of BBPS, in 2019
4 National Electronic Toll Collection Spec 1.16 Archive NETC API Specification - 2018
5 SFMS Messaging Standards - Archive SFMS is messaging standard that Indian domestic financial messaging uses.
6 RTGS Messaging Standards NG-RTGS Specifications Archive Released in 2013 Press Release
7 Cheque Truncation System Clearing house Interface Spec 2.5 As of July 2016
8 Micro ATM Standards Ver 1.5.1 Archive As of 2013.
9 AePS Interface Specification Ver 3.0.0 Archive As of June 2012.
10 IMPS - Interoperability Standards for Mobile Payments V 1.10 Archive TeneT Group, September 2009.
11 IMPS - Interoperability Standards for Mobile Payments V1. A1 Archive TeneT Group, November 2010.
12 Interface Specification of NCMC Ecosystem Version 1.2 (Part IV to Part VII) Archive CDAC, Feb 2020
13 ONMAGS - Online Mandate Approval Gateway System V 4.2 Archive NPCI, May 2022.

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