HDFC Bank Debit, Credit Cards Unavailable For These Two Days; Know Details Here

One of India’s largest private sector banks, HDFC, has recently announced that all its debit, credit, and prepaid card transactions will be temporarily unavailable for a couple of days. The bank revealed that the card transaction services will remain closed on June 4, 2024, from 12:30 AM to 2:30 AM and on June 6, 2024, from 12:30 AM to 2:30 AM.

HDFC Bank System Upgrade

HDFC Bank has announced that the main reason behind the unavailability of this service is due to a prominent system upgrade. The bank has announced this information about the temporary unavailability of the service to its customers through emails and SMSes.

HDFC Bank reached out to its customer base and revealed the temporary unavailability of the service through emails and SMSes. The bank notified customers with an email that said, “HDFC Bank debit, credit, and prepaid card transactions will not be available on June 4, 2024, from 12:30 AM – 2:30 AM and on June 6 from 12:30 AM – 2:30 AM.”

It has been found that HDFC has decided to schedule a system upgrade for its debit, credit, and prepaid card services on the following dates. This system update will temporarily affect the working of card services all over the country. Due to this system upgrade, all these card services will not work at the bank’s ATM, point of sale (swipe machines at stores), online payment gateway portal, or Netsafe transactions.

Apart from that, HDFC Bank recently announced that it will no longer be sending SMS alerts for UPI transactions below Rs 100 starting on June 25. However, the bank will continue to send a notification to the users for every UPI transaction, as per HDFC’s Bank Communication.

The bank has also stated that after June 25, users will only receive SMS notifications if they make a UPI payment of Rs 100 or more. Other than that, they will also be notified through their SMS if they receive Rs 500 or more via UPI.

Last week, HDFC Bank also shut down most of its services, including net banking, mobile banking, and UPI, on May 25. This was mainly due to maintenance activities.