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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:

  1. Send sms “MCHEK” to 121. You can also use MCHECK, MCHEQUE, MCHK, MCHQ.
  2. It will request you to create a four digit PIN, which will used for future transaction.
  3. Then an USSD session gets invoked & asks you to enter 4 digit PIN.
  4. Enter your credit card number, expiry date & CVV number as it requests on by one.
  5. Re-enter your 4 digit PIN.
  6. 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:

  1. Sms “PAY AIRTEL <AMT>” to 121. Ex: PAY AIRTEL 500
  2. This will invoke an USSD session & ask you 4 digit PIN which you created while registration.
  3. A request will be sent to your bank & bank replies by approving or declining.
  4. If bank approve, you will get a confirmation receipt.

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  • Gopal
    Call me 9890086904
  • Gopal
    Hi i want know how to work mcheck on Airtel for recharge my mobile
  • dhyan
    CAN WE USE SBI DEBIT ATM SHOPPING CARD OR HDFC INTERNATIONAL DEBIT GOLD CARD FOR THIS
  • raghu
    HELLO EVERY ONE
    M CHECK IS VERY SIMPLE YOU CAN ACTIVATE GPRS FROM YOUR CELL PHONES AND DOWNLOAD THE MCHECK APPLICATION FROM SERVICES PROVIDED FOR YOU IN AIRTEL LIVE.

    IF YOU ARE NOT USING A SMART PHONE THEN IT WILL BE A BIT LENGTH PROCEDURE
  • Aditya
    "mcheck" is very usefull application..it helps to recharge our prepaid instantly anywhere,anytime....Thanks to "AIRTEL"....But now does it support the "SBI" atm cum debit card...
  • Praveen
    its very fine application but i want the downloading file of the application.. how can i get it............
  • Narayan
    Don't expext anything from Airtel customer care all people out there are " MONKEY's with headphones"...straight away go to Gallary if possible people out there are quite decent!!.
  • Gaurav
    Mchek software is really cool...

    You can recharge any prepaid mobile & pay ur & any other postpaid bill by registering ur credit card thro? software

    http://www.mchek.com/mChekJava/mChek-airtel.jad

    All you need is gprs connection on ur cell - its called Mobile Office in Airtel. Enjoy!!
  • Gaurav
    i have registered for mchek. Everything is fine. Only thing is i don't have mchek software for my nokia e51 phone. Can you provide me link please?
  • @ khan:

    To get started with mChek, just send an sms: "Airtel" to 543219.

    Alternatively you can send an sms: "MCHEK" to 543219.
  • piz iwant to start my mchek registeration
  • @ Manohar:

    What are you talking about?? Do you think we guys are from customer care?
  • i am sorry say that call carges has not deducted as per ur sms, which was confirmed cc of kalyani, May pl. look into the matter cordially and arrange to refund the excess deducted of call charges at the earliest .Awaiting ur reply through sms pl.
  • @ Atul:

    Yea.. of course there are always competitors for every product and service.. But we cannot take chance its question of our personal monetary information..
    So I rely only on mChek :)
  • Atul
    I have used Mcheck .. it isn't good .. there are other mob apps in the market which let you pay your bills .. the best one in the breed and by now ,far ahead of its competitors, is this app called NGPay .. awesome product .. not only does it let you pay your airtel bill securely but also lets you book movie tix, travel tix, gift flowers, order food, make donations all through your cellphone .. guys, try it out .. go to ngpay.com to download it..
  • @ M Prakash
    Call up airtel customer care and ask them to get the bills delivered to your mail id. After that you can pay them by using your credit card.

    @ deepak khuran:
    You 2 may try the solution suggested to M Prakash

    @ SHAFI:
    According to sources airtel have considered to introduce this service soon.

    @ Anitha Kariappa:
    Debit card can be used for mChek applications, but you'll need a gprs enabled mobile 2 use mChek application wherein you have such a option. I mean you cannot use that sms procedure with debit card or net banking account

    @ Deepak Rana:
    Yes you can use mChek facility even from your prepaid Airtel connection. And this service comes absolutely free. According to security point of view I don't think there would be any problem, even I am using mChek since its introduced without any problem :)

    @ MANPREET SINGH:
    Complete procedure is mentioned in the post above :P.
    Write back for any further doubts

    @ Riaz:
    Yea ofcourse. You can use any credit cards

    @ G.Radhakrishnan:
    For this you'll have to download mChek application on your GPRS supported airtel mobile.

    @ Aamir:
    Repeat the procedure again. May be it would solve your problem

    @ poonam:
    Sorry.. This is something I don't know about :(

    @ dana:
    yes, but only if you have gprs supported mobile :)

    @ dheeraj:
    Call up customer care and ask them to activate e-bill

    @ sandeep:
    Check above comments..

    @ ravi shankar:
    As mentioned above even I am using mChek since the day it was introduced and I am yet to notice any security flaws in it :)
    Finally I would say its a great service by airtel..
    AIRTEL ROCKS! :-)
  • ravi shankar
    hi recently i received a message from airtel regarding mcheck. i installed mcheck on my mobile. i am having sbi atm debit card. if i use mcheck to recharge through atm,by giving the details about the pin number of my atm card,is it a safe for me?secondly give me your suggestion about the mcheck. ravishankar from:hyderabad andhra pradesh. india
  • sandeep
    hai can i use airtel mchek through my ATM card(SBI or SBH)
  • sandeep
    hai can i use airtel mcheck through my ATM card(SBI or SBH)
  • dheeraj
    hello i want to see the bill details through internet
    please help me
  • dana
    Good thing... can we pay using debit card?
  • poonam
    MY mchek registration is not working because of i have forgotten my pin no firstly. than I creat a one another add my card which is shown incorrect or invalid card no whatever i enter right no. on mchek.
  • Aamir
    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
  • G.Radhakrishnan
    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.
  • Riaz
    Ummmm.....so does anybody know if this application accepts international Visa credit cards ??????
  • Good service, pleare tell me the procedure to use it.
  • Deepak Rana
    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.
  • Anitha Kariappa
    This is a good system. Can use debit card instead of credit card???
  • SHAFI
    i want to mony transver saftwaer
  • 09980597751
    i want this 09901662406 address
  • b.r.c.pattnaik
    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.
  • Praveen
    This is super application i am
    Used for 3months but 2days no respons this application please contact me urgent
  • deepak khurana
    i dont find my bills at my address
  • 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
  • that's a great service from you.
    Hope you are going to tie-up with more & more services enabling people to enjoy mobility.
  • 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
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