"JD Cash is almost done, but I think we would delay it by one (more) quarter to launch it," Justdial founder & MD VSS Mani said during the company's Q4-FY15 earnings conference call. He added that the beta version of JD Cash is ready and they're currently testing it. Justdial wants to be "100% sure about the way we go about it", because it involves financial transactions. However, the more interesting bit of new is that Mani informed that users will be able to make micro payments using JD Cash. "Yes, it will allow you to make such micro payments, including your own newspaper vendor to milkman to anybody you can pay through this and avoid dealing in cash with them." In August last year, Justdial had first said that it was planning to introduce JD Cash, a payments platform integration for its Search Plus suite of services. Earlier this year, Mani had said that they were looking to launch JD Cash sometime between April-June 2015, during the company's Q3-FY15 earnings conference call. Wallet plans Justdial has opted to tie-up with an existing mobile wallet service provider, instead of applying for a prepaid-payment instruments (PPI) license itself. However, it hasn't revealed the name of the wallet service provider it has tied-up with. Note that the company had been considering applying for a PPI license and in the interim period “manage with some of the existing people who have that license.” So, PPI license plans might still be on the table. JustDial needs…
