You can now use Airtel Money to make payments at any Lipa na M-Pesa buy goods till. The M-Pesa merchants will be able to receive payments from Airtel Money customers.
What you need to know about paying to an M-Pesa till;
• Dial *222#
• Select Lipa na M-Pesa, Equity & Airtel
• Select M-Pesa till
.• Enter M-Pesa till number. You will see which till you are paying into.
• Enter amount.
• Enter Airtel Money PIN to confirm the payment. It is free to pay to Lipa Na M-Pesa till from Airtel Money (For the first 6 months) And incase of a dispute? You can call Airtel customer care on 100 or visit nearest Airtel shop..
You can also pay for goods & Services using Airtel Money till. When paying, you will enter the Till number displayed by the merchant. At the end of the transaction, you will receive an SMS confirming a successful transaction.
To buy goods using Airtel Money till dial *222#, select Lipa na -M-Pesa, Equity, Airtel, Select Airtel Money Till, Enter Till Number, Enter Amount then Enter Pin.
Pay Bills Using Airtel Money
You can easily pay your utility bills through Airtel Money.To pay your bills, dial *222#, Select Lipa na – M-Pesa, Equity & Airtel, then select option 4 (Airtel Paybill). Pay for Electricity, Water, TV Services for FREE using Airtel Money.
Following the updates On Friday 15th, the operators got the nod allowing its mobile-money customers under Airtel Money and T-Kash to make payments to M-Pesa pay bills. The pay bill merchant interoperability represents the secondary phase of mobile-money integration which had earlier in the year seen Airtel and Telkom customers access payments on M-Pesa tills.
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) which has midwifed interoperability between the rival networks has welcomed the ongoing changes which align to its quest for deepening the digitization of payments. “Without full interoperability, customers were limited to the network they were on in order to make payments, and had to resort to alternative methods that were neither customer-friendly nor affordable,” CBK said in a statement on Friday.