Pay through Auspost bpay towards amex?

[Tonyladz]

Can you still earn points if you paying via bpay on auspost website through your amex?

 

[albyd]

I’ve switched to paying by BPay via credit rewards. There is the matter of the service fee but there is also a surcharge which I think is quite OTT on the deft notice.

 

[kingzac]

Anyone have any luck with Brisbane rates or utilities?
Got both but on rates the app says it can't be done online and the utilities don't seem to have the post option.

 

[sumthinfornuthin]

Yak Pay

 

[Rich]

Worked for me with QANTAS Amex Ultimate and paying South East Water.
Other SEW customers may be interested to know (and perhaps other merchants to it) that the email bill we received just listed "popular" ways to pay which did not include AusPost. However when I logged in to my account online the full version of the bill included all payment methods.

 

[samh004]

Yak Pay

Slightly high for my Amex card compared to 1.5% with Sniip.

Currently trying to work out how to make a V/MC payment for a ~$5k purchase but not get screwed on the points (I have a terrible V/MC rate)... am I correct in thinking a service such as Sniip could help me BPAY the funds onto one of the many travel cards you find out there, and then use that to pay the bill? Open to suggestions via PM if necessary.

 

[joon8887]

im confused. There's no PayPal option when trying to pay online using post bill pay - Post Billpay: Pay a bill

 

[bernardblack]

im confused. There's no PayPal option when trying to pay online using post bill pay - Post Billpay: Pay a bill

It depends on the biller. They don't have to offer PayPal as an option. For instance my water utility accepts PayPal but my council does not.

I think it's dumb and infuriating for a biller to use PostBillPay without PayPal, and I think AusPost should protect the integrity of their platform by removing that discretion, but that's how it is.

 

[daft009]

I just came across one council rates where you can only pay in person at auspost postbillpay, but not on their website.. jeez

Had to use Amex with sniip with that one

 

[madrooster]

I just came across one council rates where you can only pay in person at auspost postbillpay, but not on their website.. jeez

Had to use Amex with sniip with that one

There's a number of councils that are like this.

 

[daft009]

There's a number of councils that are like this.

i don't see the point in restricting

 

[madrooster]

i don't see the point in restricting

I believe the ability to pay a biller via postbillpay.com.au is an extra feature that has to be turned on / subscribed to. Only about half the billers that I've encountered seem to have it. The other half are the same as what you have encountered - pay at AusPost in store only.

I don't see AusPost actively pushing billers to be activated for postbillpay.com.au either, those who aren't enabled for it, have not been enabled for it for a while with no change unfortunately.

 

[jc14]

If I pay my Origin Energy bill via postbillpay.com.au will this be counted as an "in person" transaction and therefore get charged the payment processing fee by Origin?

 

[daft009]

If I pay my Origin Energy bill via postbillpay.com.au will this be counted as an "in person" transaction and therefore get charged the payment processing fee by Origin?

No extra fees every time I've done this. I'm with origin too

 

[http_x92]

If I pay my Origin Energy bill via postbillpay.com.au will this be counted as an "in person" transaction and therefore get charged the payment processing fee by Origin?

No fees and you will get the full Amex points rate. Best way to do it for Origin imo.

 

[jc14]

Thanks for confirming daft009 and http_x92!

 

[SOPOOR]

wondering if I could pick the brains trust here,

I have a council bill that has postbillpay barcode only.
it also has website that accepts visa/mc with surcharge

I want to try and use paypal which is linked to my explorer for 2pt /$1 which is 1:1

but when I scan the barcode with my austpost app it doesnt recognise it
I can take it into my local PO who scan this same Barcode that doesn't work for me and pay by amex but then its 1pt /$1

any ideas to get around this?

 

[daft009]

Any tiny numbers below the barcode?

 

[SOPOOR]

Any tiny numbers below the barcode?

Yeah it's *4001 xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_x with a long reference number


The error msg I get is "sorry this bar code isn't recognised" but it's thr barcode aust post teller scans (I think)

 

[albyd]

Try to pay it with Sniip app. 1.5% surcharge with Amex. Not sure how that compares with Australia Post but your time saving might be worth it.

 

[daft009]

Yeah it's *4001 xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_x with a long reference number


The error msg I get is "sorry this bar code isn't recognised" but it's thr barcode aust post teller scans (I think)

Weird one. Sniip might be the way to go.

4001 says this biller is not supported so I think that's the one.

In my case my bill says *497 which turned out to be 0497, 4 digits max... And I could still pay online