Are you a digital native or digital rookie? Do you pay bills online?
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The Lion King
• July - September 2015
Product Review
| Ubills Africa
4 Reasons you should
pay your bills online
By Uzoechi Onumonu
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ccording to Pew research, about 58% of Internet users
in Africa use the Internet daily. The growth of internet
users and the demand for convenience coupled
with the evolution of digital payment has brought about
the online bill payment option, one of the most convenient
payment options in the global technology space impacting
the banking and financial industry in Africa today.
Online payment in Africa has moved beyond accepting
payments on E-commerce websites into online bill pay-
ments. By 2016, there would be a tremendous growth in
online bill collections/payments in the health, insurance,
education and investments sectors in the continent.
The convenience of digital payments for both bill payments
and purchase of online goods and digital content (Music,
books, articles) is rather alluring and the best thing about bill
payment online is that it is easy, fast and secure.
Paying bills online helps you get organized so there’s no
need to carry cash around, as all transactions are made
online.
Here are 4 reasons to pay your bills online.
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The online bill payment system allows you to top-up
mobile phones, data plans and pay for Utility bills such
as electricity, cable TV, water bills and also allows
school fees payment.
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Once transaction is completed, when payment is suc-
cessful, a payment acknowledgement receipt is sent
via e-mail or sms on a real time basis.
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Tracking transactions, bill spends and getting organized
becomes easy and reports can be downloaded from
the bill payment portal admin dashboard.
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There are several digital payment options that
can be used to pay bills online instead of going to
a physical location. These include credit cards,
debit cards, prepaid cards, transfers, mobile wal-
lets e.t.c.
UBA's UBills Africa offers one of the best online
payment platforms in Africa. UBills Africa is a plat-
form that allows customers the flexibility to collect
or make 24/7 online payments for goods and
services rendered. It guarantees secure transac-
tions and Real-time audit trail. All major local and
international cards (Visa and MasterCard) are
accepted on this platform. UBills Africa is avail-
able in 19 African countries that UBA is present and
open to both UBA and Non UBA customers.
Visit
now for easy, fast and secure
online bill payments.
