Around the year, you get several monthly utility bills and electricity bill is one of them. There was time when you had to visit electricity office to make electricity bill payments, but not anymore. The time has changed and so has changed the ways of making electricity bill payments. Yes you are right in this age of online services, how can we think of paying bills offline. It is worrisome indeed as number of consumers has increased by many times in the last two decades as we can see long queues of people standing in lines for electricity bill payment. Just recall the days when half or at times even full day of yours were spent in the queues waiting for your turn to pay the bills. With the easy and safe online payment options available on the web, it does not make sense to stand in queue just to pay bills.
You may be concerned about the safety of paying bills online. And people who have never heard of an online window for all such services or are very new to the online world might be jittery to even think of paying online fearing data theft or even money theft too. Yes you too may have come across several cases where you heard about people’s money stolen from bank account, but those people either may have used unauthorised websites and mobile apps or might have even used public places to make transactions. Beware of using computers, laptops in internet café and booths to make any of your online transactions. Also avoid using others phones and internet devices to make any kind of online payment. You have to be very careful on the web and stick only to either the websites and mobile apps of BSES, Tata Power, Reliance Energy and the likes or use genuine e-wallets platform for your electricity bill payments. The facility is also available with banks websites and mobile apps, using which you can easily and smoothly make your utility bill payments.
The authentic online platforms that are offering these online payment services are developed and designed to give optimum safety and security to users’ data. Nowadays all are using tools to give protection to the customers’ information. The best is to use the platforms that are very popular amongst the online users for making online transactions. In addition to power companies’ bill payment platforms, e-wallets are largely used by consumers for easy, safe and comfortable online bill payment service. The steps are very simple, you only have to select you electricity provider with the consumer number and you can with out any hassle complete you transaction in the comfort of your home or office. After the process is over, you get electronic receipt, which you should keep safe for future reference.
The online bill payment for electricity has become very popular in the last few years and the reason is its easy availability and comfort of using it at the place and time of your choice.