PayTM Vs FreeCharge : Which One Is For You
Smartphones are all about making our lives easier than ever and those Smartphone Apps are helping us in every aspect to manage our day to day life tasks. Like we can play, learn, chat and lot more. In that category, we have so many payment Apps that help us to recharge our mobile or DTH or utility bill payment on the go all you have to do is just activate your bank facilities like debit cum ATM card or credit card or net banking and many more. So let us take a closer look at two Best of the Best Apps PayTM and Freecharge.
PayTM
PayTM is a huge mobile-based e-commerce website undoubtedly the most popular among all others of its category. It started off with mobile recharging platform and then extended to DTH, electricity, gas etc… later entered into the shopping platform. Now they offer services in Recharge, Booking tickets and online shopping.
The App is well structured with easy and simple user interface. PayTM lets you pay through online and through PayTM wallet. The wallet can be refilled by credit card or by net banking prior and can be used for later transactions.
Recharge through PayTM is just few clicks away and the service is instant for which you earn cashback offers and many other profitable deals. It supports almost 15 Mobile operators and for DTH it supports Airtel, Dish, Reliance, Sun direct, Tata sky and Videocon. Similarly, it has lot of options to be discovered. You can even book tickets for movies, Bus, Flights, Hotels.
PayTM offers weekly deals and coupons, through which you can get offers and discounts from your payments. You will have atleast offer of 5% everytime. We can transfer PayTM money between PayTM users.
One last thing about PayTM is you can use it at IRCTC(not during tatkal hours) and with Uber.
FreeCharge
FreeCharge is new in market for recharge and bill payments, but it is catching up quickly. When the company announced about 'FreeCharge Wallet', it has crossed 10 million registered active users within 60 days of its rollout. you can pay from your FreeCharge wallet across 50 merchants.
It is famous to get discount coupons for recharging mobile, bill payments and DTH connection. You can choose coupon codes for many stores like Amazon, Jabong, eBay, Dominos, CCD and lots more. These coupon codes will be of equal value as your recharge so it means you are recharging for free.
Freecharge is keeping it simple by just concentrating on Mobile recharges. And most of the coupons are related to restaurant and movies. But we cannot recharge through IVRS or SMS.
It has offered a new service by transferring Freecharge wallet money through one WhatsApp message.
Verdict
If we compare Paytm with Freecharge, most of the options are similar. Even though Freecharge entered the market much later than PayTM, it is so quick and so focused on what it does. While PayTM has wide spread of functions where it lacks merchants for its products but still it tops the market.
