Using your phone to pay for items through your phone bill

timbo86

Hi, after some advice please. I've read somewhere that you can use your contract mobile phone to pay for items and the money gets added to your phone bill. Does anyone know anything about this and what it can be used for as I can't find the article or website anymore.
Thankyou.

BrassicWoman

do you mean applepay?

timbo86

I'm not sure, all I know is you can pay for items using your phone bill and the money gets transferred to your phone bill almost like a form of credit till you get your monthly bill

m4rc

I wouldn't think so, as that would mean your phone contract provider paying for he items and you may not pay it re are of course different premium rate services that would charge your phone provider, but I don't think that's what you mean. And ApplePay is completely different, you are using the phone to pay by credit or debit card instead of taking the card from your wallet, the amount is not charged to your phone contract.

DCFC79

What kind of items we talking about here, grocery goods or something else ?

Caladan

It is possible to pay for items through your phone (i.e. the cost is added to your next phone bill). I've never heard of this being used for general purchases though. I've used it myself in the past to pay for on-line gaming subscriptions but then found out it was cheaper to pay by card.

So yes, it can be done, if the retailer allows it. Not very popular in the UK as far as I can tell.

DCFC79

Caladan wrote: »

It is possible to pay for items through your phone (i.e. the cost is added to your next phone bill). I've never heard of this being used for general purchases though. I've used it myself in the past to pay for on-line gaming subscriptions but then found out it was cheaper to pay by card.

So yes, it can be done, if the retailer allows it. Not very popular in the UK as far as I can tell.

That's the only thing I can think of. I also remember buying a subscription years ago myself and it was added to the phone bill.

SalsaDanca

I think I remember reading about BT trialling something like this. The idea was that you could dial a special premium-rate number to order something like a takeaway delivery, and the cost of the premium rate phone call paid for the food you ordered. This was a long time ago, possibly before mobile phones were invented.

SalsaDanca

Not what I was thinking of, but a similar concept trialled by Vodafone and Pizza Hut:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/article/964066/add-pizza-monthly-phone-bill-pizza-hut-delivery-app