This is biting real hard now. All merchants irrespective of sector and size are all disabling UPI on credit card. I haven't been able to make a single transaction on either of my RuPay credit cards (HDFC Tata Neu Infinity and Axis IOCL) in the past one week! And all these merchants were accepting UPI CC until a week back! The funny thing is that they have no problem with accepting physical credit cards even for small amounts.
Looks like the good days of earning rewards on UPI transactions are over. Might as well as use cash.
I think it is now widely being shared in merchant networks that MDR is being cut for Rupay Credit Card UPI transactions, which is why most merchants are now disabling it. If this goes on RuPay credit cards will be rendered useless and will eventually fade away and fail. Govt/NPCI/RBI should come up and do something about this else their grant plans for RuPay will also go up in smoke.
Anyway I am closing the Tata Neu card (FYF) when renewal approaches. I have only got around 600 Neu Coins so far in total and there is no way I am going to make the 1500 in annual fees back that is going to be charged in the next 5 months.