RuPay introduces CVV-less payments for tokenized cards

By Leandra Monteiro

RuPay, India’s own homegrown card network went live on Card on File Tokenization in 2021, in line with RBI’s guidelines, for its domestic e-commerce transactions to ensure better security for all its cardholders.

To refine the experience further, RuPay has now introduced the CVV (Card Verification Value) free payment experience for its Debit, Credit & Prepaid cardholders who have tokenized their cards on the merchant application or webpage. Tokenization is a simple technology to secure card transactions without sharing clear or real card details with the merchants.

Denny Thomas, Head, RuPay said, “Our vision has always been to ensure effortless payments for all our RuPay cardholders without compromising on the security aspect. Having worked with the payments industry extensively for implementation of Card on File Tokenization, which ensures utmost security of sensitive card information, now we are aiming at making the payment experience of a tokenized card seamless.”

When a cardholder opts to save their card for a domestic e-commerce transaction, they authenticate the transaction through the card details (Card number, CVV, Card expiry date) as a one-time activity followed by entering the OTP, the details are then Tokenized and saved with the merchant. This safeguards the card details of the customer from cyber frauds as real details are not saved with the merchant.

For subsequent transactions, the customer can complete the payment by just entering the OTP without the need to enter the CVV or other card details again. With the auto-read OTP feature enabled on customers’ devices, this payment experience becomes smoother than ever. This feature has been made live along with RazorPay for merchants like Rapido, Porter, etc. RuPay is further working with major aggregators/gateways like PayU, CyberSource, Firstdata, Paytm, etc. to extend this feature to other merchants.