In a time when the mobile payments space in the country is witnessing phenomenal growth, CCAvenue.com, India's leading eCommerce solutions provider and largest payment gateway has integrated Aircel Money wallet to its payment network. With this inclusion, CCAvenue continues to expand its ever-widening payment portfolio for the benefit of its diverse merchant base. More than 1 lakh e-businesses registered with CCAvenue will now have an opportunity to achieve higher sales from Aircel Money's humongous user base of 80 million customers.

Aircel Money, a mobile wallet by Aircel Smart Money Limited (a subsidiary of Aircel) is a relatively new entrant in the competitive payments market. Within just a few months of its introduction, the wallet has successfully built an enormous customer base by means of its convenient and secure payment services. Any customer using an Android or iOS device can avail the service through their prepaid or postpaid connection, irrespective of the telecom operator to which they have subscribed. Aircel Money facilitates easy online payments by allowing customers to pre-load money into the wallet through net banking, debit card or credit card.

Referring to the new addition, Mr. Vishwas Patel, CEO, Avenues India stated "Post demonetization, the mobile wallet space in India has greatly benefitted and the average wallet spend is witnessing a huge jump. In fact, a recent study revealed that the country's mobile wallet market is expected to reach Rs. 1512 billion by 2022. At CCAvenue, we endeavour to promote this trend further by partnering with as many wallet providers as we can. With the addition of Aircel Money on our platform, CCAvenue merchants will be able to offer real-time and secure payment services to the extensive customer base of the wallet, which will eventually result in substantial growth for their business".

Being a merchant neutral company, CCAvenue already has all the major wallets integrated on its platform including Reliance JioMoney, Paytm, MobiKwik, FreeCharge, State Bank Buddy, etc. As the company rolls out more and more payment options this year, its merchants can look forward to a great deal of business opportunities.

About Aircel
Founded in 1999, Aircel is India's fifth largest mobile network operator, headquartered in Gurgaon. After commencing operations in south India, Aircel has extended itself to become a pan-India operator today. The company offers voice and 2G, 3G and 4G data services to a vast subscriber base spanning across the entire length and breadth of India. In addition to its leadership position in Tamil Nadu, Aircel also emerged as the market leader in Assam and North Eastern states. As a data led telecom player, Aircel is credited with the fastest 3G roll out ever in the Indian telecom space. Maxis Communications holds a 74% stake in the company. In September 2016, Reliance Communications and Maxis Communications announced plans to merge their mobile phone services business into a single entity.

Headquartered in Mumbai, Aircel Smart Money Limited is a subsidiary of India's fifth largest cellular operator, Aircel. Since its incorporation in 2012, the company has endeavoured to keep customers at the center of all its strategies and initiatives, and committed to deliver quality services to all existing and new customers at all times. Aircel Smart Money Ltd. provides a host of cellular telecommunication services including prepaid, postpaid, internet, mobile money, and subscription facilities, among others to its 80 million strong customer base. To know more, please visit www.aircel.com.

About Avenues
Headquartered in Mumbai, CCAvenue is a payments platform for ecommerce businesses in India. CCAvenue is designed to help its 1 lakh+ merchants accept online payments through a spectrum of new-age payment options including 6 major Credit Cards, 98+ Debit Cards (All MasterCard /Visa /Maestro /RuPay Cards), Amex EzeClick, 53+ Net Banking, 48 Bank IMPS, 17 Prepaid Instruments and up to 12 Multi Bank EMI options. CCAvenue now also offers UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and will soon be adding BBPS (Bharat Bill Payment System) payment facility on its platform. Backed by a 15-year history of industry firsts, outstanding innovations and prestigious accolades, CCAvenue offers a multi-channel payment platform, along with a bunch of disruptive features such as CCAvenue Checkout, CCAvenue S.N.I.P., CCAvenue Store Front, CCAvenue Card Storage Vault (tokenization) and more. CCAvenue has successfully achieved the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification in addition to being PCI DSS 3.2 compliant.