Long gone are the days when we used to stand in line for hours to pay the bill for our basic utilities like telephone, electricity, water and more. Since the last ten years or maybe even a little more ago we have been comfortable paying our bills online. In the beginning, there was a time when we had to go to certain shops in our neighbourhood that helped us to pay our bills online. However, with the advancement of technology and the popularity of smartphones ever on rising, paying bills now just requires sitting on your couch comfortably with your mobile phone in your hand and touching some buttons.
Apart from the particular service providers offering online platforms in their website or app, there are several other dedicated utility payment apps now in the market that integrate the payment structure of all these individual apps and websites and offer you one single platform to do all the payments. Therefore you need not log in and log in several times for each service you are enjoying, but just login into one such app and make all the payments on one platform. Such apps are called utility payment apps.
In India, presently we have several such apps that are helping us pay our bills without wasting much of our vital time and even helps us to pay bills on time because with these apps you can pay your bill at your convenient time, from your convenient place and using your convenient payment option.
Let’s check out some of the best utility payment apps in India.
3 BEST UTILITY PAYMENT APPS IN INDIA
- Onepay
Integrated within the oneapp, onepay allows its users to automate and manage all their online payments, utility bill payments. Now oneapp users can pay their electricity bills, phone bills, gas bills, cable connection, water bill, internet connection using your oneapp. Even one can recharge their prepaid mobile bill using the same app.
Paying bills using ONEPAY in ONEAPP is easier due to the app’s user-friendly interface.
- Go to the onepay card in your app dashboard.
- Click the Pay Bill button to enter.
- Click on the name of the service you want to pay for.
- Choose your biller or service provider from the list.
- Enter your consumer no./registered mobile number as per the requirement displayed in the app
- Click the Confirm button to proceed.
- The app will fetch your latest unpaid bill and allow you to make payment.
To know more about the app and download, go to www.cubeoneapp.com
- Paytm
Paytm is one of the most trusted online utility payment apps in India.
To use the app all you have to do is just download the Paytm app from Google Playstore or App Store, create an account with your contact details, link a bank account and start using the app. Paytm allows you to pay for Bank payments, Online shopping, Railway and flight ticket bookings, Uber, Fastag recharge, Mobile recharge, bill payments, DTH recharge, Insurance and more.
- “Freecharge – Recharges & Bills, UPI, Mutual Funds”
With the Freecharge, one can avail benefits in :
- Payments and investments to loans, credit cards
- Mobile recharge
- Pay utility bills
- Transfer money through BHIM UPI
- Pay insurance premiums
- Make investments in SIPs, FDs and Mutual Funds
- Buy exclusive deals from various brands
- Send gift cards.
Which app do you use to pay your utilities? Let us know in the comments below.