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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJSET</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJSET</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJSET</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJSET</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-0584</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10513</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Assessing the Influence of Digital Payment Systems and Financial Literacy on Consumer Expenditure Patterns in Mumbai</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="862" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Saleemuddin Panwale</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib><contrib id="863" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Julinca Afonso</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2">2</xref><aff id="aff-2"><label>1</label><institution>Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib><contrib id="864" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Sanvi Kamath</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3">3</xref><aff id="aff-3"><label>2</label><institution>Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib><contrib id="865" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Deepshikha Mahar</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4">4</xref><aff id="aff-4"><label>3</label><institution>Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib><contrib id="866" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Samruddhi Ghundare</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-5">5</xref><aff id="aff-5"><label>4</label><institution>Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-07-01"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2026</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><elocation-id>V4-I1-2026</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-06-20"><day>20</day><month>06</month><year iso-8601-date="2026">2026</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2026-06-20"><day>20</day><month>06</month><year iso-8601-date="2026"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2026-06-20"><day>20</day><month>06</month><year iso-8601-date="2026"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2026 Saleemuddin Panwale Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Saleemuddin Panwale</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJSET/currentissue/assessing-the-influence-of-digital-payment-systems-and-financial-literacy-on-consumer-expenditure-patterns-in-mumbai"/><abstract><p>This study analyses the relation between the use of UPI, financial literacy and the spending behavior among different age groups and genders in Mumbai. The study shows a rise in the usage of UPI, which links to expenditure. The study is based on the primary data, collected through a questionnaire from 301 respondents residing in Mumbai. Various descriptive statistical tools were used to analyze the data. The results show that payment methods vary among different age groups, irrespective of their gender. Other findings show that by using the chi-square test, there is a significant relationship between age group and preferred mode of payment. By correlation analysis, there is no significant correlation between income and frequency of UPI usage, whereas no significant correlation between monthly expenditure and UPI usage of an individual. The study shows a non-significant relation between an individual&#x2019;s financial literacy and UPI usage. According to the analysis, the majority of people use Google Pay for UPI transactions. Overall, the study helps to understand how digital payment affects these factors and whether they are dependent or not.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Unified Payment Interface (UPI)</kwd><kwd> Financial Literacy</kwd><kwd> Spending Behavior</kwd><kwd> Mumbai</kwd><kwd> India</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>This research, including authorship and publication, did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable.</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors confirm that there are no conflicts of interest associated with this research.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The sole responsibility for the study design, data gathering, results analysis, and manuscript drafting lies with the author.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>This research, including authorship and publication, did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable.</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I appreciate the support and expertise of everyone who contributed to this research and manuscript writing, as well as the insightful comments from anonymous reviewers.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>-</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
