Case Study: BharatPe achieves automated security and slashed bank onboarding from months to days with Cloudflare

Fintech Startup BharatPe Automates Security with Cloudflare

BharatPe is a rapidly growing Indian fintech that enables more than 10 million small and medium merchants to accept payments through a single QR-based interface; within a year it onboarded over 2.5 million merchants and scaled from 300 to 1.5 million daily transactions. From day one it was hit by relentless cyberattacks—SQL injections, brute‑force and automated probes—that tied up roughly half of the back-end team and threatened both growth and merchant trust.

By deploying Cloudflare’s WAF and Bot Management and using a single 24/7 technical contact, BharatPe automated its defenses, eliminated ongoing manual security work, and cut bank API integration time from nearly three months to under a week. The outcome was stronger protection against scraping and attacks, freed engineering capacity to focus on product and scale, and much faster partner onboarding.

BharatPe

Bhavik Koladiya

Co-founder