What Is SmilePay?
SmilePay is a groundbreaking application launched by the Federal Bank that redefines the payment landscape. It enables users to make payments simply by scanning their face, eliminating the need for physical payment instruments like cards or mobile phones. Imagine walking up to a counter, smiling, and completing a transaction—no cash, no cards, just your friendly face!
How Does SmilePay Work?
SmilePay is built on top of Aadhaar Enabled Payment Service (AEPS) and Aadhaar Face Authentication Service. Federal Bank uses Finahub's FacePay Software Solution that provides BHIM AEPS Payment Switch that supports Aadhaar Face Authentication to enable payments using face authentication.
Federal Bank on boards merchants that can avail of SmilePay through the bank’s merchant app called FED MERCHANT that integrates the FacePay Merchant SDK. These merchants can initiate payment transaction by scanning the face of the customer.
The camera on the merchant’s mobile scans the customer’s face, verifying their identity against stored facial data in the UIDAI system (Unique Identification Authority of India).
Instant Payment: Once verified, the payment is processed instantly, debiting the customer’s Aadhaar-seeded account and crediting the merchant’s account maintained with Federal Bank.
SmilePay leverages the BHIM Aadhaar Pay platform powered by NPCI. Here’s how this integration works:
Biometric-Based Payments: SmilePay enables seamless, biometric-based payments between customers and merchants (P2M).
Merchant Authentication: Merchants must have their Aadhaar linked to their bank account and be certified for face authentication modality with NPCI.
Customer Requirements: Customers need a valid bank account seeded with Aadhaar and sufficient balance for successful transactions.
Benefits of SmilePay
Convenience: No need to carry physical cards or mobile phones to make a purchase and pay digitally. The buyer can just smile and pay!
Security: Facial recognition is a biometric authentication method that ensures the physical presence of the account holder thereby eliminating frauds such as card cloning and OTP frauds.
Futuristic Experience: The whole transaction feels like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s real!
Implementation and Availability
Federal Bank Customers: SmilePay is available for both Federal Bank customers and customers of other banks certified for face authentication modality with NPCI.Input Parameters: Federal Bank customers can initiate transactions using their Mobile number/Aadhaar number/VID/ updated in their customer id with the bank. For other bank customers, the Aadhaar number/VID is the input parameter.
So, next time you’re at a Federal Bank merchant, don’t forget to flash
your best smile—it might just be your key to a seamless payment
experience!
How Finahub helped Federal bank implement SmilePay?
Finahub's FacePay Software Solution enables Federal Bank to implement SmilePay and integrate the functionality with existing services.
FacePay Software Solution consists of:
- BHIM AEPS Payment Switch
- Integrations with NPCI and UIDAI
- Certification with NPCI to enable BHIM AEPS services
- Mobile SDK for integrated on Merchant App
- Support Kirana Store
- Supports Multi POS Stores
- FacePay Console that supports
- MIS Reporting
- Transaction Logs
- Merchant Console
- Agent Administration
- Transaction Reports
For more information contact us.
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EKYC, Authentication, eSign, Aadhaar Data Vault etc. If you want to know how your enterprise can start using it, please give us a call @ 0484 2388285 or email us at [email protected]
