Originally Posted by
oliver2002
The demonetization in 2017 pushed many to accept cards and digital payment options. Google pay is quite common, the Indian payment apps are sadly not accesible to visitors. You will require some cash, if you pull 10 000 INR once from an ATM it will cover you for quite some time.
Does a US-account Google Pay, charging a US credit card, work in India, given India's mandatory security rules? I saw a report that it does not, but iI don't know if it is correct.
I tried it once and neither the salesperson nor I could find how to ask the app to read the merchant's QR code, so I gave up and paid cash.