Flywire vs. Paytm

Many of our international students studying at our institution are financially supported by their parents in their homeland. In other words, they rely on their families for payment of their class fees. So, Flywire makes international payments convenient by making payment by visiting our college website and finding the Flywire payment option. Some prefer this method over credit card payments or by wiring money to the student's bank account in the U.S., which creates a whole additional step in making payments.

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Paytm is extremely well suited for lunch reimbursements and for paying road tolls. Paying road tolls is so easy using a Paytm money balance. loading money takes less than a minute. Lunch reimbursement amounts are directly transferred to Paytm wallet and these can be used in thousands of places. Paytm can improve its eCommerce portal and simplify the KYC process. Also, the app is a bit cluttered as of now. There is scope to make the app more modern and simple.

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• It accepts a wire transfer from virtually all nations outside the U.S.
• The customer service support is helpful.
• Once payment information in our system is updated, it allows for payment for classes from overseas to run smoothly.

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• You can use Paytm to purchase from a selection of common items to luxurious items.
• Tickets - Can be used to book tickets ranging from movie/concerts to flights/trains.
• Bills - You can use Paytm to pay bills for your house/electricity/DTH.
• Gifts - You can send gifts to your loved ones using Paytm.
• UPI Transfer - Directly transfer money to another customer's bank account by UPI transfers.
• Metro - Metro cards can be recharged from the app itself helping you beat the queue at metro stations.

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• Delay time could be shortened between the actual time of payment and the confirmation of payment.
• It could allow for the payer to pay more than the outstanding balance without rejecting additional amounts of money.
• Refund information by way of Flywire is a little vague.

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• One of the not so convenient things on Paytm is that if there is a connection failure while making a payment, your money is not credited directly to your bank account but rather to the Paytm Wallet, and this money can only be used by the Paytm platform.
• In Paytm, user verification requires a personal visit to their physical offices, this can generate a lot of discomfort among potential users since if we want to use a virtual service it is precisely to encourage time saving.
• You should be very careful when making purchases through Paytm's direct store, since in many occasions there are products of lower quality than the one offered and even fake products, it is better to use it to make payments to third parties and in considered amounts.

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Good in-terms of sending reminders on Electricity bill payments and credit card bill payments.

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Paytm is highly usable due to its wide range of services, seamless payment structure and user friendly UI support.

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Planned outages & downtime window

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Slight improvements required

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Need slight improvement on issues TAT

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Flywire is relatively simple to use with much quicker response time when it comes to customer support.

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When I inquired about payment gateway I found lots of platforms but all have differences. When I compared with Razorpay I found that Razorpay takes fix 2% charges for all types of payments received on your account while Paytm takes max 2.5% charges for Prepaid card and 0 for UPI and Rupay cards. Razorpay takes 2 days to settle the amount in your account where Paytm settles the amount in your bank account next day by morning.

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Easy to integrate

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• Cannot think of any negative impact
• A good number of students are using Flywire to pay for their classes, so it is growing in popularity
• It reduces the amount of foot traffic at the cashier / payment office when it comes to issues involving payment of classes.

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• It decreased checkout time for the user which allowed us to increase user experience.
• Rarely, I used to face issues with transactions. If order got cancelled refunding of money, settling them etc.,
• Since Paytm has link with UPI and I am able to collect money from any UPI applications, using credit or debit card, and internet banking it acted as single stop solution for me. There is no need to have multiple payment gateway options.

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