Pay at the counter with your face and a PIN
TansorPay is building a point-of-sale terminal that links a customer's face to their UPI ID. Look at the terminal, confirm with your PIN, and the payment runs over UPI. Nothing to take out of your pocket.
Talk to us about a pilotWatch the prototype
We are at prototype stage. A pilot in Mumbai and Bengaluru is planned. The service is not yet available to the public.
How a payment works
- 1. Register onceLink your face to your UPI ID in the TansorPay app. You only do this one time.
- 2. Look at the terminalThe terminal at the counter matches your face to your registration.
- 3. Confirm with your PINYour PIN is the second factor. The payment is processed over UPI, so there is no new payment network.
Built around the RBI authentication rules
The RBI Authentication Mechanisms for Digital Payment Transactions Directions, 2025 came into effect on 1 April 2026. They require two factors for domestic digital payments and allow biometrics, such as a face scan, to be used as one of them.
TansorPay is designed as face plus PIN. Going live depends on the approvals and bank partnerships a UPI service needs, and we will say so here when they are in place.
Where we are
What has happened so far, and what comes next.
- Q2 2025
- Core face recognition stack built with InsightFace, FAISS, FastAPI and Flutter.
- Q3 2025
- Accepted into the Razorpay Rize Tech+ programme.
- 2 December 2025
- Tansor Private Limited incorporated.
- 20 March 2026
- Recognised as a startup by DPIIT, Government of India.
- Q2 2026
- First internal face payment transaction completed.
- October 2026
- Incubated at the MSSU i-Spark Foundation, recognised by the Government of Maharashtra.
- Next
- Pilot with 10 to 25 terminals at merchants in Mumbai and Bengaluru.
The prototype
This is a development build on off-the-shelf boards: a camera and touchscreen running face detection on the bench. It is not a retail deployment, and production hardware will look different.
Recorded October 2026.
Recognised and incubated
Tansor Private Limited is recognised as a startup by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India, under Startup India. Certificate no. DIPP251261, issued 20 March 2026.
In October 2026 we were incubated at the MSSU i-Spark Foundation, which is recognised by the Government of Maharashtra.
DPIIT recognition confirms startup status. It is not an approval to operate a payment service.
Team
Manish Shah
Chief Executive Officer. Leads the company. Seven years in interior design and project management.
Firdose Tabassum
Chief Operating Officer. Runs operations, regulatory compliance and merchant onboarding.
Rahul Tomar
Chief Technology Officer. Owns the face recognition stack, backend, app and terminal hardware.
Talk to us
Running a store, cafe or counter in Mumbai or Bengaluru and want to be considered for the pilot? Tell us about it. Customers, investors and everyone else are welcome to write as well.
Email
contact@tansorpay.in
Phone +91 70201 47645