{"id":4625,"date":"2025-10-30T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:32:00","slug":"razorpay-becomes-the-first-payment-gateway-to-enable-apple-pay-for-indian-businesses-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/razorpay-becomes-the-first-payment-gateway-to-enable-apple-pay-for-indian-businesses-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Razorpay Becomes the First Payment Gateway to Enable Apple Pay for Indian Businesses Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Apple Pay now live on Razorpay, Indian exporters gain a globally trusted checkout experience proven to boost conversions by 58% and average order value by 12%<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>INDIA, Bengaluru \u2013 16 September 2025:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/\"><b>Razorpay<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, India\u2019s Leading Full-Stack Payments and Banking Platform for Businesses, today <\/span><b>announced its integration with Apple Pay to support <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/accept-international-payments\/\"><b>international payments<\/b><\/a><b> for Indian businesses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. With this, Razorpay becomes the <\/span><b>first Indian Payment Aggregator <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to enable Apple Pay for cross-border transactions, giving Indian exporters access to a <\/span><b>globally trusted checkout experience<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorpay powers Apple Pay for leading Indian brands such as <\/span><b>Mokobara, Akasa Air, Pernia\u2019s Pop Up Shop, Sabyasachi, Nish Hair, House of Masaba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more. This milestone positions Indian exporters at par with global players, unlocking new opportunities for faster, seamless, and more secure growth in international markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent industry studies reveal steep cart abandonment trends worldwide, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/477804\/online-shopping-cart-abandonment-rate-worldwide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">global averages reaching <\/span><b>70.19%<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the APAC region, crucial for Indian exporters, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/546885\/cart-abandonment-rate-region\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seeing rates as high as <\/span><b>87%<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Q4 2024. At the same time, <\/span><b>Apple Pay, with over 500 million users globally and more than 90% merchant acceptance in the US<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has become a preferred payment method in major export markets. The absence of such familiar, globally trusted checkout options in Indian exporters\u2019 international payment flows has long <\/span><b>contributed to high checkout abandonment, low trust, and revenue loss for Indian exporters.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this launch, Razorpay brings Indian exporters closer to their international customers by removing long-standing payment checkout barriers. Through Apple Pay, customers can now complete their purchases with a single click using <\/span><b>biometric authentication (Face ID or Touch ID)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with no CVV, OTP, or manual card entry required. This globally trusted payment experience not only delivers speed and security but also drives measurable business impact. <\/span><b>Early pilots have shown up to a 58% lift in conversion rates, a 45% faster checkout, and a 12% increase in average order value<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Apple Pay users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt Razorpay, our vision has always been to empower Indian businesses with the same cutting-edge financial infrastructure as their global counterparts,\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said <\/span><b>Shashank Kumar, MD &amp; Co-founder, Razorpay<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPartnering with Apple Pay is a significant step in that journey, as it brings a world-class checkout experience to Indian exporters.<\/span><\/i><b><i> With one-tap biometric authentication, we\u2019re already seeing far fewer cart abandonments and a significant reduction in fraud. <\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Indian businesses scale across borders, this launch ensures they have every advantage to win global customers\u2019 trust, reduce friction, and accelerate growth. We are not just enabling payments, we are enabling Indian businesses to compete and thrive on the world stage.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With India\u2019s total exports touching an all-time high of <\/span><b>US$824.9 billion in FY 2024\u201325<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, this capability arrives at a critical juncture. Early adoption signals strong demand; <\/span><b>over 5000 payments were processed within the first two weeks of the beta launch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>with a<\/b> <b>success rate of 95%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, underscoring both the scale of opportunity and the reliability of the solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple Pay on Razorpay is currently available for eligible Indian merchants onboarding customers in supported geographies and is <\/span><b>designed<\/b> <b>to<\/b> <b>operate<\/b> <b>in<\/b> <b>compliance<\/b> <b>with<\/b> <b>India\u2019s<\/b> <b>cross-border payment regulations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This move also strengthens Razorpay\u2019s position as a leader in <\/span><b>global payments innovation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, following its earlier launches in UPI International, cross-border payouts, and multi-currency support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: All data, merchant references, and statistics are based on Razorpay\u2019s internal records. Apple, Apple Pay, Face ID, and Touch ID are trademarks of Apple Inc.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Apple Pay now live on Razorpay, Indian exporters gain a globally trusted checkout experience proven to boost conversions by 58% and average order value by 12% INDIA, Bengaluru \u2013 16 September 2025: Razorpay, India\u2019s Leading Full-Stack Payments and Banking Platform for Businesses, today announced its integration with Apple Pay to support international payments for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33,204,186],"class_list":{"0":"post-4625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-razorpay","9":"tag-razorpay-applepay","10":"tag-razorpay-cross-border"},"modified_by":"Anu Saraswat","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}