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Bharat Connect. A unified platform for Bharat Connect’s partners and customers.

Bharat Connect

Overview

Bharat Connect is a centralized platform in India that facilitates the seamless and secure collection and settlement of various bills by businesses across India. Initially conceived by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as a pilot test, under the guidance of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), it has evolved into a robust and nationally significant initiative. Today, it handles transactions worth a staggering ₹500 crore every single day.

Our aim while reimagining Bharat Connect’s website was to build a portal that clarifies each stakeholder’s role in the ecosystem while tactfully pitching Bharat Connect’s offerings to them. This involved crafting communication that caters to all.

We created dedicated pages for every stakeholder, preempting every doubt or question that they might have. In addition to that, the portal visualises large volumes of dynamic data, refines lead-generation and lead-management, and makes it easy to find official documents like circulars, news and partner-specific content. The site also highlights all of Bharat Connect's product offerings that make transactions easier, like allowing users to pay via WhatsApp, setting auto-pay reminders, making payments without smartphones as well as custom products that are built-to-order for specific business requirements.

Outcomes

  • 490%

    Increase in partner leads over 4 months

  • 28%

    Increase in organic traffic over 4 months

  • 0.5-4hr

    TAT for website updates (down from 1-2 days)

Dedicated page for businesses that collect payments via the Bharat Connect platform.

Key takeaways

  1. An information portal for India's digital payments and collections ecosystem

  2. Complete clarity for all stakeholders of Bharat Connect

  3. Visualising extensive datasets

  4. Pro-performance tech for pro-level performance

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An information portal for India's digital payments and collections ecosystem

Over 21,000 billers and 90+ of India’s top financial institutions regularly visit Bharat Connect’s website for information, insights, guidelines and more. With strategic content-grouping, we reimagined the information architecture of the website. From official circulars, partnership forms, news and onboarding rules, business insights, details about upcoming products and a bill payment log for citizens, a treasure-trove of information can be easily accessed on Bharat Billpay’s new website.

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Demystifying the platform, one question at a time.
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Grouping of all related information.
All supported categories are listed along with details of businesses under each.
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Unpacking the tech behind every Bharat Connect product.

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Complete clarity for all stakeholders of Bharat Connect

Bharat Connect’s partners include banks, non-banking financial institutions, payment apps and aggregators, as well as billers and technology service providers. We carried out extensive research about the specific needs of the diverse sets of people that visit the website and decided to create comprehensive landing pages for each of these entities consisting of all the vital information, resources, educational material as well as answers to their frequently asked questions.

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Dedicated page for businesses that collect payments via the Bharat Connect platform.
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Page for customers who make payments via the Bharat Connect platform.

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Page for banking and non-banking institutions that onboard customers and businesses on the Bharat Connect platform.
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Page dedicated to companies that provide technology services for Bharat Connect.

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Visualising extensive datasets

From our research on what stakeholders frequently look for on specific pages, we present them with relevant data and insights at the right time throughout their journey. For the ecosystem statistics page, we visualised a large volume of data spanning crores of daily transactions via graphs and charts. This involved handling dynamic data that is updated on a daily basis. We also visualised customers’ bill payment trends in the ‘Customer Insights’ module.

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Graphs that are easy on the eye but full of insights.

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Insight-rich cards for biller categories.

Page for customers who make payments via the Bharat Connect platform.

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Pro-performance tech for pro-level performance

The website is crafted with tech solutions that ensure performance and responsiveness for users across various devices and platforms that are in use across India. During the build, our key considerations while zeroing in on a tech stack that delivers quick load times, efficient functionality, and an overall superior user experience.

The new website design supports screen readers for visually impaired users.
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To improve load times and performance, the site takes large volumes of data in JSON format and displays it as dynamically loading data tables using jQuery datatable plugin.
Seamlessly responsive UI, ensuring an effortless and user-friendly experience across devices.