Paying Bills Online

It’s the end of October and that only means one thing for those who are working, it’s payday. All the hard works and stress from working over the past days have all been paid off. Oh how I missed the feeling of getting my checks on payday, back when I was still working. That was when I don’t have a family yet, so everything was spend on me. But now, it’s a whole lot different from the way it used to be.

For more than 10 years, since I’ve stopped working and decided to just take care of my little family, I depended on my husband when it comes to our financial aspects. I didn’t encounter any problem on that because from the start he is very honest when it comes to his pay checks, and I got to applaud him for that. Since he is working overseas, his salary is a little higher than working here, unfortunately we also have a lot of obligations to pay. Aside from our house monthly amortization, we also have insurances to pay, and of course our monthly utility bills too.

Two of my dearest friends are waving at me always at the end of the month, they are Judith and Jona. Who can relate well with this? For my non Filipino readers these two names referred to our bills which are due already. So instead of stressing ourselves with our bills, we make fun of it by using these two names. Anyway let me share to you how I pay my bills online. Nowadays, there are many applications available where you can pay it, but I prefer using shopee on paying my bills payment.

How to pay bills at Shopee

Aside from shopee budols which a lot of us are willing victims, one thing I love the most using this e-commerce application is paying our monthly bills. So today let me share you some tipid hacks I always do to pay some bills.

For the past months, I pay most of our utility bills at shopee. Not only I find in more convenient but I got cash discount and cashback upon using it which I can be used in my future transactions or purchase. So it was like hitting two birds at one stone. I pay our monthly bills at the end of the month, just in time before its due date. I always pay our internet/ telephone bill first, because there was one time when I forgot to settle it on time, our internet provider disconnected our connection right away. So to prevent it from happening next time, I make sure to settle it days before its due date.

As you can see from the picture above, I have to settle the amount of Php 1300 but since I have received a total of Php139 coins cashbacks from my precious purchases, I was able to redeem it thus giving me a huge discount. By the way, you have to pay it via shopee pay, and just like any e-wallet you can cash in using your gcash account or coins.ph account too. The next payment on the list was our electric bill. So I did the same process. First you have to go to load and bills services on your shopee application. Choose for your biller’s company, and claimed for any vouchers available. Type the account number, your amount due and then press the continue button. On the next page before you press on the pay button, don’t forget to use your discount vouchers and redeem your available coins. After confirming everything, you just need to wait for a little while and your transactions is done.

I didn’t have available coins left when I pay for our water bill, but the good thing was that I used another voucher so that I can get another coins which I can use in my next purchase. This is such a great deal right? For today’s transactions I have saved around Php251 or $5. You don’t have to worry because the payment confirmation takes a little while only and you’ll receive your cashback instantly too.

Final Thoughts

Before the pandemic began, I haven’t tried paying bills via online. I must admit I am afraid of using it because I might click the wrong button and end up losing my money. So I am satisfied going to any bills payment center and wait for my turn at the counter to pay. I only started using online transactions when pandemic happened. It makes any transactions easy and less hassle. It saves our time and we don’t have to go out frequently. It keeps us away from other people thus preventing us from getting the virus. Overall I am more satisfied and happy using the said application in paying my bills.

How about you? Are you a fan of online payments too? Share me your experiences about it. And before I end this up, please give some love to all these beautiful souls below😍

Lead image is from Unsplash

The rest of pictures used were mine.