Pockets-Bill Payment, Recharge

ICICI Bank Ltd.

About this app

Pockets by ICICI Bank - The most comprehensive mobile wallet to (1) Pay Anyone, (2) Shop Anywhere and (3) Bank with ease for any bank's customer. Pockets is the first app in India to offer UPI Payments, Bharat QR code payments. With Pockets wallet, you instantly get a free virtual VISA card that can be used for shopping at all online websites/apps. You can even request for a physical card that can be used at stores. Moreover, you can recharge your prepaid mobile or DTH connection and pay your utility bills from within the app. You can send money securely to bank accounts, your contacts or virtual payment addresses using Unified Payment Interface (UPI). That's not all, you can upgrade to a Pockets Savings Account right from the app to get a debit card and create deposits.


New: Introducing Bharat QR code standard supporting Visa, MasterCard and Rupay cards.

New: Introducing payments through UPI. You can now transact (send and collect money) using UPI and manage your Virtual Payment Address or VPA from Pockets. You can also use UPI to pay merchants.
UPI ID is a unique ID that is used to make UPI payments in place of bank account details.
UPI PIN is similar to your Debit Card PIN number, a 4 or 6 digit number which needs to be set by you while creating your UPI ID. For all your UPI transaction UPI PIN is necessary. Please don’t share your PIN.

KEY FEATURES:


1. Shop Anywhere


(a) VISA Card – The Pockets pre-paid wallet is a VISA card, which can be used to shop online on websites such as Amazon. You can even get a physical card for payments at shops! Use it for small value payments without disclosing your debit/credit card details.

New: In store payments using UPI, mVISA and Bharat QR code.

(b) Scan & pay – Make secure cashless payments by scanning UPI QR, Bharat QR and mVISA QR codes without the need to swipe a card.


2. Pay Anyone

(a) Transfer funds - Transfer funds instantly and securely to bank accounts and your contacts (via UPI, mobile number, email, WhatsApp, Google+). You can also request money from other Pockets wallet users.

New: Pay and collect money from anyone instantly using Unified Payment Interface (UPI). UPI allows secure money transfer without disclosing bank account details.

(b) Prepaid Mobile Recharge - Recharge your Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Tata, Aircel, BSNL, MTS & MTNL connections.

(c) Bill Payment - Pay utility bills such as Reliance Energy, BSES, NDPL, BEST, MSEB, Torent, Mahanagar Gas, Indraprastha Gas, Gujarat Gas.

(d) Postpaid Mobile & Land Line Bill Payment - Pay Postpaid bills for Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Aircel, MTNL.

(e) DTH connection recharge - Recharge your Tata Sky, Dish TV, Airtel, Videocon, Sun.

New: Recharge Tata Sky connection by scanning QR code from your TV with mVISA.

(f) Data Card Recharge - Recharge your Tata Photon, MTS, Reliance cards.


3. Bank with ease

(a) iWish Deposit - iWish is a flexible Recurring Deposit that lets you save for your goals as and when you have the funds and earn better interest rates just like a Fixed Deposit. You can also create regular FD/RDs.


4. Awesome Deals - A bundle of specially chosen deals are available right inside the app.


5. Help at Hand - With chat built into the app, support is just a tap away. You can also always call us or email us.

Ratings and reviews

One of the worst app I ever used in my life. Don't know what the purpose of this app. Initially at the registration stage it was automatically closing multiple times (I was lucky to get it restarted 24 times in 10 minutes 😜). Then after setting up whenever I open it, i have to open 3 times to get it done. With respect to the information available in the app, my each transaction amount is displayed in duplicate. If I try to get statement, no response. I think it is just to test your patience ..!

I am currently stuck on the registration screen and unable to proceed further. Initially, the registration process shows a loader that keeps spinning indefinitely. After some time, I receive an "SMS Authentication Successful" message, but immediately afterward another message appears stating that my account is blocked for 24 hours. This issue has been occurring consistently for the past three days, preventing me from completing the registration process or accessing the application.

Unable to setup an account. the app freezes for every attempt and blocks another attempt for 24 hours after a few attempts. Edit: It took 5 days of attempt to register on this app. this included reinstalling and clearing cache etc. The UI inside is from 2005, the one which students make in college. But even to get there is a task as the app crashes frequently on entering MPIN to login. Time to switch to some other wallet card, I guess.

What’s new

1. Receiver name and bank name will be reflected in Pockets statement for NEFT transactions
2. ⁠UPI Statement can now be downloaded
3. ⁠User can view safety tips and consent in their preferred language
4. ⁠Performance improvement and code optimisation
5. ⁠Security and bug fixes