IRCTC has announced recently a new feature in the Tatkal ticket booking services that is ‘Book Now, Pay Later’ option and to know and grab more details about the same, read on the following information. In accord to this new facility to book tickets under Tatkal quota through official site of IRCTC, passengers can now pay later for the tickets that are booked under the Tatkal scheme. Till date, such services were only available for people travelling in general quota. For passengers travelling under Tatkal quota, earlier they need to pay first using standard online payment gateways and then portal confirms the ticket. To get tickets under this quota, IRCTC users are able to pay using debit card, credit card or cash and get delivery of their tickets at their doorstep. As per the information, IRCTC processes about 130,000 tatkal transactions on daily basis and most of the tickets get booked within few minutes of the quota and as soon as the counter opens.
This new feature annuls the transaction failures as well as in many cases, money gets debited and ticket is also not get issued due to many reasons behind and the refund cycle is also in between 7 to 15 days of time. In accord to the experts, pay on delivery feature prevents the use of a payment gateway and assist users to do the bookings in a few seconds of time and raises the chances of getting confirmed tickets under tatkal quota. The step by step methodology to avail IRCTC services and avail this scheme are been mentioned in below.
- To make use of this service, customers need to visit the IRCTC website and register at irctc.payondelivery.co.in.
- Customers can also access the same on mobile and needs to download ‘Book My Train on Mobile’ for iOS and Google platforms.
- Once the website gets opened, select Pay-on-delivery payment option.
- Choose the delivery address.
- As soon as the ticket gets booked, digital delivery will happen instantly through SMS or e-mail.
Aside from this, IRCTC has partnered with ePayLater to add another feather and feature for booking tickets and ease out the convenience and ticket booking process of people that is ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’. Very soon, people can buy out the railway tickets through IRCTC platform and pay later that will lower down the hassle of going all through the payment process at the booking time. It is going to render simplest checkout experience to people and using the same, you can pay the amount within just a single click. So, avail the facility, make sure to enjoy the checkout experience that this feature is been providing and no longer you have to struggle about the delivery of your ticket as the payment is not been done. The 14 day period is totally interest free so make sure to do the payment on time and travel safely. Stay updated and enjoy the travel!
