People would now be able to pay later for tickets booked under the tatkal quota on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) site. Till now, this service was accessible just for general reservations.
For tatkal appointments people needed to pay first by means of the standard online payment gateways before the IRCTC gateway affirmed their ticket. For tatkal tickets, IRCTC clients will have the capacity to pay through money, debit card or credit card by picking to have tickets conveyed at their doorstep, said IRCTC payment provider Anduril Technologies. IRCTC forms 130,000 tatkal transactions day by day.
A greater part of these tickets is reserved close to the quota opening. The new component disposes of the transaction failures as often the cash gets charged and the ticket is not issued because of numerous reasons. The refund cycle is of around seven to 15 days.
The pay on delivary on conveyance include totally goes around the utilization of an payment gateway and will enable users to make the bookings in only a couple of moments significantly increasing their chance of booking an confirmed ticket under the tatkal quota,” said Anduril Technologies CEO Anurag Bajpai. He said it will massively profit a huge number of travellers.
The difference between e-ticket and i-ticket: IRCTC offers e-ticket i-ticket options to travellers. E-ticket is the railway reservation ticket that a customer buys online while i-ticket is similar to the one that is issued at the counter but gets delivered through a courier.
The Payment on Delivery option is available only for e-tickets. The major difference between e-tickets and i-tickets is that in e-tickets payment is done once the ticket is being delivered to your address whereas in i-ticketing the payment is done online.