How To Buy Electricity Token Using Your Mobile Internet Banking App Step By Step Procedures

The Power holding company of Nigeria (PHCN) is the body responsible for the sales and distribution of electricity across the country. So, if you use electricity offered by the former power national body fondly called NEPA, you are a subscriber of PHCN.

There are two types of subscribers that uses the PHCN electricity services, you are either a prepaid customer or a postpaid customer. Postpaid customers pay after service usually at the end of a billing cycle. The billing cycle is usually a month. Prepaid customer pay before service. These are the prepaid meter users who have to load their meter before they can gain access to light.

Whether you are a prepaid customer or postpaid customer, one thing is common, you will have to pay for the service at one point or the other. There are many payment options made available by PHCN which ranges from walking to their office to make payment, payment through agents, payment via the ATM, payment through online banking, payment via bank USSD etc. In this piece, we shall focus on payment via mobile internet banking app.

In a bid to make payment of electricity subscription easier, PHCN has partnered with several financial institutions in which all the Nigerian commercial banks are part. This means that you can make payment for your electricity subscription through any platform offered by your bank as long as you are banking with a commercial bank in the country.

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One those platforms offered by Nigerian commercial banks is the banking app. There is no commercial bank in the nation at the moment that doesn’t have its own mobile app. This is in an attempt to ease transactions for customers such as the transaction under discussion. To get started, you will need to download the mobile app and link your bank account with the app. After this is done, you will be able to make payment for the electricity subscription as long as you have money in your bank account.

How To Buy Electricity Token Step By Step On Your Bank Account

You may search for your bank mobile app in Google play store, install and launch it. Link it with your bank account with the help of your bank. Here are steps to follow to make payment for your electricity subscription;

On your mobile device, launch your bank mobile app
Login with your details
Navigate to the menu and select quickteller option
From there, select pay bills option
Next is to select PHCN option
Next you will be required to input your meter number and other required information
Input the amount you wish to pay
Generate one time password (OTP). This may not be available for all banks
Verify the information on the invoice and if correct, click on continue
Make payment with your PIN.

You will instantly get the debit alert from your bank and if you are a prepaid customer, you will be sent your token via SMS by which you may load the meter.