Cashfree Payments Launches India’s First AI-App Payments Extension, ‘Cashfree Here’

Cashfree Payments has unveiled Cashfree Here, an AI-native payments extension designed to enable in-chat transactions inside conversational AI applications such as ChatGPT and Claude. Announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in collaboration with Mastercard and Swiggy, the launch marks a step toward embedding payments directly into AI-driven commerce experiences.

Positioned to support emerging agentic commerce models, Cashfree Here enables businesses to accept UPI and card payments natively within AI chat interfaces, eliminating the need for external checkout flows. The solution integrates with platforms built on OpenAI Apps SDK and Anthropic MCP frameworks, introducing PCI-compliant in-chat checkout capabilities for developers and enterprises.

The launch builds on Cashfree’s earlier introduction of Agentic Payments, allowing AI agents to interact with merchant systems and manage payment workflows within conversational environments.

Enabling Conversational Commerce

Nitin Pulyani, SVP and Head of Product, Cashfree Payments, said that each phase of digital ...