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Gather the constraints up front

• Source per-transaction and per-day caps from your PSP / acquirer (or from a config table you keep updated per NPCI rules + merchant verification status + MCC).
• Also fetch merchant’s remaining daily allowance (from PSP API or your local ledger of successful UPI receipts).
• Enforce any PSP-specific rules (min txn amount, max legs allowed, supported UPI modes).

Decide UX / business rules

• Decide whether splitting is automatic (ERP will try to split) or opt-in (customer chooses split/pay later).
• Prefer showing the user: total, per-leg amounts, number of legs, and which payment methods are alternatives (card/netbanking) before attempting collects.
• For B2B invoices, ask if partial payments are allowed; if not, block UPI and suggest alternate flows.

Algorithm to compute safe splits (basic, robust)

• Let Tcap = per-transaction cap, Dcap = daily cap, R = remaining daily allowance for merchant, Amount = invoice total.
• Effective single-leg ceiling Ceil = min(Tcap, R).
• If Amount <= Ceil → single collect.
• Else compute legs greedily: take as many Ceil legs as needed, last leg = remainder. If last leg < PSP minimum amount, adjust by balancing (e.g., distribute across legs to keep all ≥ min).
• Also check maximum number of legs allowed; if exceeded, fallback to alternate payment or require manual handling.

Orchestration & atomicity (critical)

• •    Create a single InvoicePaymentPlan record linked to invoice with legs array (leg_id, amount, status, psp_txn_id, upi_ref).
• For each leg call PSP pre-check API (if available) to confirm remaining daily limit and allowed amount. If no pre-check, proceed but be prepared to handle failures.
• Execute collects sequentially or in controlled parallelism: prefer sequential (leg1 → leg2 → …) because daily allowances and race conditions can cause mid-flow failures.
• Implement reversible flows via PSP APIs (reversals/refunds) and mark everything in your ledger before returning success to caller.

Idempotency & retries

• Use idempotency keys per leg (invoiceId:legIndex:attemptId) so retries don’t double-charge.
• Backoff / retry on transient errors; on definitive errors (LIMIT_EXCEEDED, DAILY_LIMIT_REACHED) stop retries and surface next steps to user.

Reconciliation & GST / e-invoice mapping

• Store psp_txn_id and upi_ref for every leg and include them in your GST e-invoice Payment array (one entry per leg).
• Ensure your settlement batch logic aggregates legs correctly: settlement files from PSP may show separate credits — map them to invoice via psp_txn_id.
• If auto-reversal happens, generate credit note / adjusted invoice and record reversal UPI ref.

Notifications & UX

• Notify user/customer at three touchpoints: (a) when split is created, (b) as each leg succeeds/fails, (c) final invoice status.
• Provide clear error messages: UPI daily cap reached — try smaller amount, card, or complete tomorrow.

Auditability & monitoring

• Log every API request/response and store raw PSP error codes (to tune thresholds).
• Add alerts for patterns: many LIMIT_EXCEEDED responses, high rate of compensations, reconciliation mismatches.
• Track KPIs: split success rate, average legs per invoice, compensation rate, reconciliation delta, time-to-full-payment.

Edge cases & testing

• Simulate concurrent spends that consume merchant’s remaining allowance mid-flow (race conditions). Build tests that:
• Force second-leg DAILY_LIMIT_REACHED and ensure compensation works.
• Simulate webhook/callback lost and verify polling reconciles status.
• Verify idempotency under duplicate webhooks or client retries.
• Test refunds across split legs: full refund should create refunds across legs proportionally or in defined order (document policy).

Security, compliance

• Don’t store PAN/card data — store only PSP tokens and UPI refs. Ensure logs containing sensitive identifiers are redacted.
• Maintain audit trail for NPCI/RBI compliance — per-txn UPI refs, timestamps, merchant verification status, and settlement files.

Implementation sketch (pseudo-code)
def split_invoice(invoice)

Rollout & Ops

• Roll out with a canary: only for verified merchants and a small % of invoices.
• Feature flag the auto-split behavior so you can disable instantly.
• Provide support playbooks for agents to handle partial payments and reconciliation questions.

Potential change-freeze windows

• Thursday, October 2nd: Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and coincides with Dussehra.
• Saturday, October 11th - Sunday, October 12th: October 11th is a regional holiday in many states, Saturday and October 12th is a Bank Holiday across all of India for Dussehra.
• Monday, October 20th: Diwali/Deepavali

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Your rollback and communications strategy should put transaction integrity, customer trust, and quick recovery first if your PhonePe rollout results in performance regressions, such as delayed payment confirmations, unsuccessful UPI mandates, or webhook timeouts.

Make sure you have already backed up your API keys, webhook URLs, and transaction logs for the prior integration version in order to do a rollback. In order to immediately reroute UPI traffic from the new PhonePe flow back to your backup PSP (such as Razorpay or Paytm) without any delay, keep a feature flag or routing toggle handy. To prevent double debits or lost callbacks, temporarily halt new transactions during rollback. Only then, after end-to-end payment confirmation and settlement flow have been verified, can the previous integration be restored.

On the communications front, avoid confusion by informing your finance, operations, and support teams first so they can respond to questions in a consistent manner. The following could be your internal message: Since the most recent PhonePe roll-out, we've seen slower UPI response times. To ensure stability, we are reverting to the prior integration; payments are safe, and no client funds are in jeopardy. Externally, provide a brief update on your social media pages and status page in case users encounter any delays, stressing that payments are secure and will be attempted automatically again.
Document validation tests for upcoming rollouts (such as synthetic UPI testing, webhook latency thresholds, or reconciliation dry runs) and do a post-mortem after the rollback to determine what went wrong, whether it was API latency, rate constraints, or schema mismatches. The objective is straightforward: demonstrate your openness, technical readiness, and dedication to uptime, even in the event that things must be pulled back.

You must monitor both operational efficiency and system stability metrics to demonstrate that an NPCI update (such as new UPI APIs, transaction caps, or rule modifications) increased team productivity without increasing risk. Regarding productivity, start with the workload associated with manual reconciliation, the average time to execute NPCI compliance adjustments, and the transaction throughput per engineer. Your staff is working smarter, not harder, if these drop. Additionally, you may track the automation coverage of UPI procedures (such as auto-retries, reconciliation scripts, or refunds) and the number of support tickets pertaining to payments; fewer tickets typically indicate that the upgrade made operations simpler.

Pay attention to the transaction success rate, UPI response latency, and NPCI compliance alerts when it comes to risk. Decline rates, timeout percentages, and instances of fraud or duplicate transactions should all remain flat or lower in a stable update. Additionally, monitor the frequency of post-deployment rollbacks; lower rollbacks suggest dependability and confidence.