Pay Airtel bill through SMS; Airtel intros mChek
Prashanth on September 18th, 2007
Now just send an sms to pay your mobile bill. It doesn’t matter where you are, doesn’t require any paper work to get activated. You need to register your credit card with Airtel by sending an sms. After registration you can pay your bill by sending a simple sms. Procedure to activate this service is given below:
- Send sms “MCHEK” to 121. You can also use MCHECK, MCHEQUE, MCHK, MCHQ.
- It will request you to create a four digit PIN, which will used for future transaction.
- Then an USSD session gets invoked & asks you to enter 4 digit PIN.
- Enter your credit card number, expiry date & CVV number as it requests on by one.
- Re-enter your 4 digit PIN.
- You are done! A welcome message appears including instruction for future transaction.
The procedure looks quite simple, but be sure that you are entering all details in Airtel. There is a chance that anyone else can implement same kind of procedure to steal you credit card details. Coming back to the post, the procedure to pay your bill after registrations is as follows:
- Sms “PAY AIRTEL <AMT>” to 121. Ex: PAY AIRTEL 500
- This will invoke an USSD session & ask you 4 digit PIN which you created while registration.
- A request will be sent to your bank & bank replies by approving or declining.
- If bank approve, you will get a confirmation receipt.
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Good post - one can also sign-up on the web at http://www.mchek.com.
On the comment on being sure to enter the information on Airtel, this is always the case because of the fact that USSD sessions are only generated in response to the customer’s SMS that is sent to 121.
Cheers
that’s a great service from you.
Hope you are going to tie-up with more & more services enabling people to enjoy mobility.
dear sir i am not getting mobile bills since 4 months i am finding difficulty in paying please arrange to send bill to my residence address or to my e mail address or through sms dr m.prakash kumar mobile no 9845595950
i dont find my bills at my address
This is super application i am
Used for 3months but 2days no respons this application please contact me urgent
since last 15days i am sending sms, i.e., mchek to 121, but after it i am receiving sms but that is blanks. there is no text. again i have complained to airtel customercare so many times but they are unable to resolve it. please see the matter. Again i want 2 say this is a very good application, i have used it. and friendly user.
i want this 09901662406 address
i want to mony transver saftwaer
This is a good system. Can use debit card instead of credit card???
Dear Sir,
Gud Mrng
I came across through an Add that u have just started a MCHeck Facility.
I wanted to know that, Is this facility is applicable for prepaid connection also.
One more thing to be know, Any service charges is applied for this MCHeck Service and what about privacy, is this safe and durable service.
Please Reply.
Good service, pleare tell me the procedure to use it.
Ummmm…..so does anybody know if this application accepts international Visa credit cards ??????
Dear Sir,
I want to make the payment of my bills through the net by transfer from my Savings Bank a/c of SBI, like the railway reservation. What is the proceedure?Again I want to know whether your company is having a single a/c at Chennai for the whole of Tamilnadu? For more than one connection can I make a single cumilative payment? Your answer for the above questions will be more useful not only to me but also customers like me. Infact your CCC couldnot answer the above questions today the 24th July 2008. Your response will be much appreciated.
I have registered and got the pin. Now not able to download the software. And i have contacted cust care around 10 times but use less team. They dont understand english. I dont know when my prob will be sorted