Uber's Indian operations now offer a digital payment platform which meets regulatory requirements and opens up Uber to a customer base of 600 million.
The tie-up with India's biggest digital payments platform Paytm was announced this week.
"Once you link your debit card or bank account via a Paytm wallet to your Uber account, you’ll easily be able to top up your wallet using multiple payment options," it says.
Coverage of the deal in the US and Indian tech and business pages provides the back story noticeable by its absence from Uber's slick release. TechCrunch reported that Uber's former payment mechanisms fell foul of the Reserve Bank of India's regulations.
The main issue was that payments made in India need to go through an Indian bank and not via Uber's international processing hub.
International credit cards can be used, but holders will need to open a Paytm account and use their card to credit the Paytm account.
Paytm is owned by Indian mobile internet company One97 Communications. It is quite a coup for the business as arrangement with Uber is not only exclusive - no chance of PayPal or ApplePay muscling in - but also it will take a reported commission of 2.5%.
Elsewhere, Allen Penn, head of Asia operations at Uber, told The Economic Times that Uber was planning to add "a management layer" to its Indian operations, with a central team working alongside the city teams.