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This is going to be tough. The competition in payment ecosystem is pretty hot in India. You have Alibaba funded paytm with about 250 million users. They provide

This is going to be tough. The competition in payment ecosystem is pretty hot in India. You have Alibaba funded paytm with about 250 million users. They provide digital wallet services which can be used for buying anything from flights tickets to electronics online or paying for Uber. Apart from that they are also present offline, you can but grocery or even tea with that. Additionally they also have payments bank licence so you can have your bank account there itself. Then there is Jio money funded by India s richest man which also operates in telecom and has roughly 100 million users, they also have a payments bank licence. Finally there is Amazon pay, which is moving slowly but has recently tied up with lot of websites for movies or online food delivery. So the competition is likely to be fierce.

subbu 9y ago
YC has funded 2 Indian startups in this space: Razorpay, and Cashfree, and now Stripe has also entered the space. Along with the startups some big banks are also in the fray. I started with HDFC payments for my company's payments but moved away from them; they expect you to work at their pace. That'd have killed us by now. I wrote about my payment experiences here: https://blog.simplyguest.com/payments/simplyguest-payments.html https://blog.simplyguest.com/payments/simplyguest-payments.h...
- sharmi 9y ago
  Hi Subbu, The canonical url for your page is set to http://localhost:4000/payments/simplyguest-payments.html http://localhost:4000/payments/simplyguest-payments.html . That is not the best option for SEO :)
  - subbu 9y ago
    Thank you, Sharmi. I really appreciate you taking out time to look at the source and point out the issue. I have fixed the canonical url. I also noticed the feed url was wrong too. I have fixed that as well :)
arjunbajaj 9y ago
None of those support payments from customers outside India, a requirement most online businesses have.

subbu 9y ago

YC has funded 2 Indian startups in this space: Razorpay, and Cashfree, and now Stripe has also entered the space. Along with the startups some big banks are also in the fray. I started with HDFC payments for my company's payments but moved away from them; they expect you to work at their pace. That'd have killed us by now. I wrote about my payment experiences here: https://blog.simplyguest.com/payments/simplyguest-payments.html https://blog.simplyguest.com/payments/simplyguest-payments.h...

sharmi 9y ago
Hi Subbu, The canonical url for your page is set to http://localhost:4000/payments/simplyguest-payments.html http://localhost:4000/payments/simplyguest-payments.html . That is not the best option for SEO :)
- subbu 9y ago
  Thank you, Sharmi. I really appreciate you taking out time to look at the source and point out the issue. I have fixed the canonical url. I also noticed the feed url was wrong too. I have fixed that as well :)

arjunbajaj 9y ago

None of those support payments from customers outside India, a requirement most online businesses have.