Case Study
Fintech / Payments

PayTM extends comprehensive merchant protection across India for under ₹2 a day, with Assurekit

For every business and every person they serve

200,000+

Merchants covered

13,000+

Pincodes reached

₹350 crore+

Income secured

They understood the merchant context, helped us think through adoption, and stayed involved at every step. It genuinely felt like a partnership.

Suhana Miranda
Head of Merchant Products
The problem

Paytm had been offering protection plans tomerchants for years, sourced from multiple insurers. Adoption stayed low. Churn was high.


Claims took 30 to 60 days,
required multipledocuments, and outcomes were uncertain. 



Merchants had tried these products andbeen let down. Most plans were also pricedfor a generic market, bundling coversmerchants did not need and charging themfor it anyway.

By the time we came in, merchant trust in the category was gone.

How we approached it

Milan and Shubhang speaking to the shop owners and merchants of Mumbai.

The conversations changed what we built.

What we heard was not about onespecific risk. It was about theaccumulated vulnerability of runninga small business alone. A health issuethat forces the shop to close, anaccident, a fire, or a flood. Merchants needed a plan thataddressed all these concerns.



We built plans around exactly this.Daily benefits keep merchantsengaged between claims. Coversthey would never use were strippedout. Enrolment was reduced to threetaps inside the PayTM app usingexisting KYC.

Impact

2 lakh merchants across 19,000+ pincodes got covered in under six months. Thatalone was the goal. What happened after was the proof.Merchants who previously skipped doctor visits for weeks were now calling in forroutine issues.

25,000+

minutes of teleconsultations have been logged.

1 in 5 enrolled

merchants has actively used a benefit outside of a claim.
Preventive care that was being deferred is getting used.
Shop closures due to health issues have come down.
Churn, which was the defining problem of every plan before this, has stayed low.

For Paytm's merchants, protection now works the way it was always supposed to.

Paytm is India's largest payments platform, serving millions of merchants across every state and district.
Industry:
Fintech / Payments
Location:
India

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In shop value is now protected

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200,000+

Merchants covered

19,000+ pincodes got covered in under six months. Merchants who previously skipped doctor visits for weeks were now calling in for
routine issues.