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About AEPS: Benefits, Full Form, and Registration

By Chandrakant Mishra | Published On May 22, 2020

AEPS is a very advanced Payment System. It gives you money without ATM or Cheque book. Even you are not required to remember  your bank account number. You have to only give your mobile number. This payment system uses your Aadhaar data for the authentication. AEPS TRANSACTIONS

1. AEPS: Full Form And Meaning

The Full Form of the AEPS is Aadhaar Enabled Payment System.

It means this payment system uses your Aadhaar Number for the authentication. On the basis of your Aadhaar data, you can receive cash or send money.

Different Payment system used different modes for the authentication.  IMPS uses your mobile number and MPIN. NEFT uses your transaction Password and OTP sent to your mobile. ATM uses your debit card and ATM PIN

Similarly, AEPS uses your finger print/ iris for the authentication. Since this system works on Aadhaar data, Mobile number registration or smartphone app is not necessary.

AEPS के बारे में हिन्दी में पढ़ें

2. Benefits of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System

  • You can Pay money, deposit amount, get mini statement and check balance.
  • AEPS works with Micro-ATM. This handheld ATM can go anywhere. Thus you can get cash in remote areas as well.
  • A banking correspondent of any bank can do the specified transaction of any bank. you can find banking correspondent in rural areas as well.
  • There is no need of signature or debit card.
  • It is fast and secure. No one can forge your fingerprint.
  • Banking correspondent can reach to the distant rural place with the micro POS.
  • Shopkeepers can also use AEPS to take payments

3. What Can You Do through the AEPS

The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System gives you banking facility on the go. However, It gives you only basic services. You can avail these 5 services through the AEPS.

  1. Balance Check
  2. Cash Deposit
  3. Cash Withdrawal
  4. Mini Statement
  5. Aadhaar to Aadhaar Fund Transfer

The Aadhaar to Aadhaar fund transfer mechanism is used for the Merchant payment. A shopkeeper has to use the dedicated app for this purpose.

Except for Fund transfer, you can perform all the transactions through the banking correspondent of any bank. For fund transfer, you need the Banking correspondent of your own bank.

4. Requirements for AEPS

Through the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS), you can get money without producing any paper or card. However, you have to fulfill some requirements.

Your Aadhaar number should be registered with your bank account. If you did not link your Aadhaar with a bank account the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System would not be useful to you. For AEPS transaction, you need the following information.

  1. Aadhaar Number
  2. Bank IIN or Name
  3. Fingerprint

It means you have to only remember your Aadhaar number to do the bank transaction. It is just like remembering own mobile number.

5. What is IIN in AEPS

IIN Stands for the Issuer Identification Number. The NPCI issues this 6 digit number to those banks which participates in AEPS. The AEPS system recognises a bank on the basis of the IIN.

For a fund transaction, the Aadhaar number and IIN are required. Since an Aadhaar number can be linked to various bank account number the IIN differentiates among them as different banks would have different IIN. There is only one IIN for a bank irrespective of the branch. Such as the IIN for the SBI is 607094.

The IIN coupled with Aadhaar number will uniquely link to an Aadhaar enabled bank account with that Bank. Alternatively, instead of entering the digits for IIN, it may be represented at the MicroATM level by the respective banks’ name/ logo, which may be selected from a drop-down menu.

IIN of Major Banks

Bank Name IIN 
Airtel Payments Bank Limited 990288
Allahabad Bank 607117
Andhra Bank 607170
Bank of Baroda 606985
BANDHAN BANK LIMITED 508753
Dena Bank 508547
Bank Of India 508505
Central Bank of India 607115
Canara Bank 508532
Corporation Bank 607184
Dhanalaxmi Bank 607239
Federal Bank 607165
HDFC Bank Ltd 607152
IDBI Bank 607095
ICICI Bank Ltd 508534
IDFC Bank Limited 608117
Indian Bank 607105
Indusind Bank 607189
Indian Overseas Bank 508541
The Jammu And Kashmir Bank Ltd 607440
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd 607420
Bank of Maharashtra 607387
Oriental Bank of Commerce 508585
Punjab National Bank 508568
State Bank of India 508548
Syndicate bank 508508
Union Bank of India 508500
UCO Bank 607066
United Bank of India 607028
Axis Bank 607153
Vijaya Bank 607075
YES Bank 607223

6. Why Aadhaar for Authentication

Remember, at the time of Aadhaar enrollment, your fingerprints and iris image were taken. These biometric data gets linked to the Aadhaar number. These biometric data is unique to a person. No two person have the same iris image or fingerprints.

Thus, your Aadhaar number can be verified by your finger prints. This biometric authentication makes Aadhaar the perfect proof for the banking transactions. Indeed, It has replaced the signature.

7. How Aadhaar Authentication Works

Suppose, you claim to be Vijay and produce the Aadhaar number of Vijay. To verify it, bank official would take your fingerprints in a machine. The machine gives the fingerprint details to Aadhaar Payment app.

The app immediately tallies your fingerprints with the fingerprints of the given Aadhaar. If it matches, the system would permit for the transaction. In case of mismatch, the system would not do any transaction.

8. How Aadhaar Enabled Payment System Works

It is surprising that only through the Aadhaar number you can access your bank account. But it is possible because the Aadhaar is linked to your bank account. This linking leads you to your bank account.

The fingerprint is authenticated by the UIDAI. In response to a transaction, UIDAI tells to the bank about the authenticity of the user. Once, UIDAI authenticates, the bank gives a green signal to the transaction.

Thus, in the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System 6 institutions are involved.

  1. You, the bank customer
  2. Banking correspondent or merchant – The facilitator of AEPS
  3. The bank of BC – The bank to which banking correspondent or merchant is attached
  4. Your Bank – the bank with which you held the bank account
  5. NPCI – It does switching, clearing and settlement of transactions
  6. UIDAI – For finger-print authentication

9. Charges of AEPS

Unlike UPI, the AEPS is a relatively costly transaction. It can go up to Rs 15 for one transaction. On the other hand, UPI charge is free to nominal. For AEPS, three institutions involved can charge fees.

  • UIDAI may charge a nominal fee for authentication, however, it is not charging yet.
  • The NPCI charges 10 paise for authentication and 25 paise for settlement.
  • The bank can charge 1% of the transaction value if it is related to other banks. The minimum fees for other bank transaction would be Rs 5 and maximum fees would be Rs 15.

Know: Latest Debit Card Transaction Charges 

Conclusion

AEPS gives a lot of convenience to the rural people. It brings the bank to their doorstep and saves much time and transport expense. It would be just like a visit of the ATM at every doorstep. That is why government calls the POS as micro ATM.

Recently, the government has launched the BHIM Aadhaar Pay system. It has the virtues of BHIM app as well as AEPS. Using this platform, one can pay to the merchant without the card or mobile. The thumb impression is used for authentication.

Filed Under: Payments Basic

About Chandrakant Mishra

Chandrakant Mishra is the Founder-Editor of the upipayments.co.in and PlanMoneyTax.Com. He has written more than 600 articles on payments, tax, investment, insurance and saving. He has been associated with the CNBC Aawaz Business Channel as Assistant Editor.

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  1. Indranil Ganguly says

    November 1, 2018 at 10:36 PM

    want to be a bc on AEPS

  2. Roshan kumar mukhiya says

    August 23, 2018 at 12:13 PM

    AEPS transaction bessinec open kaise kare

  3. sreenath reddy mule says

    August 21, 2018 at 11:28 AM

    good please help me to start the service

  4. Imran mulani says

    July 1, 2018 at 12:54 PM

    I want to start aadhar payments bussnes in my village so please help me.

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