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Latest working methods to pay credit card bill from debit cards

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Valid as on 17th Sep 2024. I will keep on updating here and on https://x.com/sm98119

1a) RBL signature + dc: Pay using sbi unipay. 1% cashback for cc bill payment upto 1000rs pm. Extra 5,000 Rs voucher if spend of 5L or more in a year. Fees 5.9k issuance (get 5k voucher) and 1.8k annual (waived off on 3L spends). Can open multiple accounts with same pan to get multiple dc.

1b) RBL Enterprise dc: Pay using sbi unipay. 5% cb on paying cc bills upto 1k monthly. 9k vouchers if spend of 15L in an year. Fees of 2.2k annual. On joining, 8.9k fees and you get 8.5k voucher.

2) HDFC PLATINUM debit card: Pay using sbi unipay for 1% cashback upto Rs750 pm. No cashback for payment through mobikwik, Cred, paytm, Cheq. Fees 750 (waived for certain account categories).

3) HDFC Millennia debit card: Pay using sbi unipay to get 2.5% cashback or load wallet (Amazon(full kyc req) or mobikwik) and then pay cc bill using wallet balance to get 1% cashback. Total combined cashback monthly limit 400. Fees 500 (waived for certain account categories). Use Bill desk QR code to pay cc bill from amazon wallet.

4) Indusind exclusive or select debit cards (around ~0.9% cashback): There are 3 main cards : visa signature, visa platinum and mastercard world. All 3 can be held together and free of charge with select or exclusive accounts. Use paytm or SBI Unipay for visa variants. Sbi unipay or Payzapp for mastercard variant. Do note, these dc have incremental rewards, so if spend is 10k only <0.5% rewards.
For mc world and visa signature each : Cashback limit is Rs 1050 per month on spends of 112k. Max 3000 reward points at 35 paise.
For visa platinum: Cashback limit is Rs 700 per month on spends of Rs79.3k Max 2000 reward points at 35 paise.

5) FI money ( infinity or salary variant): Pay using sbi unipay or using cred through FI Upi. Pay 1.5k multiple times. Get 2% cashback. Max cashback of Rs30 per tranx. Rs.100 per day, 500 per month.

6) IDFC Debit cards: Pay using sbi unipay.
Reward rate and dc fees depends on account type:
For wealth account: 0.67% rewards till 50k(online spends). 2.5% rewards post 50k. Rs.12.5k rewards max monthly. So, around Rs.5.36L transaction can be done.
For Select account: 0.5% rewards till 50k(online spends). 2.5% rewards post 50k. Rs.7.5k rewards max monthly. So, around Rs.3.4L transactions can be done.
For basic account: 0.33% rewards till 50k(online spends). 1.67% rewards post 50k. Rs.2k rewards max monthly. So, around Rs.1.6L transactions can be done.

7) Axis Liberty dc: Pay using sbi unipay. For 60k spends in a calendar qtr, get 750 cashback. Bonus tip: spend 10k on gift edge/Amazon (incl gift voucher)/ FK during weekend and get 500Rs reward pm. Dc fees apply.

8) Other dc: Sbi physical dc 0.25% on all except account to wallet/account to account. Jupiter (1% upto Rs150 on sbi unipay; 2% using upi for select accounts). Union bank signature 1% unlimited. Standard Chartered Infinite Priority 1.25% unlimited vouchers on wallet/utility etc.

Alternative to SBI unipay: ‘Airtel’ (2 merchant names, both work), Canara bbps (also called Canara Setu) website, Navi app. They only support bbps cc bill payment. These give 4900 (utility) mcc.

Ongoing issues
(1)
For Non-BBPS CC billers (like Amex or SC), you cannot use SBI Unipay and most other apps. You can load Amazon wallet or payzapp wallet using debit cards which give points on Wallet load (like HDFC Millenia) and pay using the bill desk website. Alternatively, you can use cc issuer NEFT/UPI details as well.
Amex: https://www.americanexpress.com/in/...-statements-and-balance/making-a-payment.html
SC: https://www.sc.com/in/credit-cards/payment-option/

(2) HDFC Billpay service has changed it's MCC, so avoid using that. Use Unipay instead.
(3) Indus dc points are not regular, so will have to wait and still no guarantee that you will get the points or correct number of points.
(4): Some have reported idfc dc is blocked while account is active. You can complaint to idfc, it gets solved in 3-5 days.
(5) SBI Unipay does not allow to pay SBI CC bill when you are logged in for some users. So, dont login and you will be able to pay SBI CC bill.


Estimated timelines for rewards : https://www.technofino.in/community...-card-bill-from-debit-cards.25788/post-777326

SBI dc rewards update from 1st May. Details here
https://www.technofino.in/community...-card-bill-from-debit-cards.25788/post-643329

AU bank and standard chartered bank dc: see here https://www.technofino.in/community/threads/best-debit-card-for-credit-card-bill-payment-2024.26178/
 

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Alternative to SBI unipay: ‘Airtel’ (2 merchant names, both work), ‘jio finance’ app Canara bbps (also called Canara Setu) website. They only support bbps cc bill payment. These give 4900 (utility) mcc.
Do these alternatives all work and provide cashback ? as SBI unipay is very unstable.
Can we instead have a table in the original thread against every DC in row item , working methods from portals and also MCC code
 
Do these alternatives all work and provide cashback ? as SBI unipay is very unstable.
Can we instead have a table in the original thread against every DC in row item , working methods from portals and also MCC code
Yes

Good idea. Do you mind start building it and then we can contribute. Not kidding
 
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Yes

Good idea. Do you mind start building it and then we can contribute. Not kidding
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What would be a more reliable choice (not counting HDFC BillPay)? Canara Setu? Have seen complaints about Jio Finance too!
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HDFC billpay is out of the equation as it doesn't give you reward points anymore. Canara Setu, JioFinance, works fine.

Always do a test payment first to see the status of the website/app.
 
Always do a test payment first to see the status of the website/app.

That doesn't seem to tell much about the condition of Unipay!

The other day I paid off one bill successfully at Unipay, but before the next payment went through, the website crashed, complaining about some kind of "bridge"! Thankfully, no payment got stuck.

When I braved it again after several minutes, the second payment also went through successfully!

It appears that the Unipay site has intermittent, unpredictable failures, which no test payment can say anything about!
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Yes

Good idea. Do you mind start building it and then we can contribute. Not kidding

here you go, added what i know, pls start contributing



PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa Sign
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara Setu
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYES
Airtel
 
here you go, added what i know, pls start contributing



PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa Sign
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara Setu
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYES
Airtel


PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa SignIDFC DC
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara SetuYESYESYESYES
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYESYES
AirtelYESYESYESYES
 
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here you go, added what i know, pls start contributing



PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa Sign
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara Setu
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYES
Airtel
Could you please mention on which banks did you got HDFCBILLPAY? If you haven't tested it, then it's completely false.
 
That doesn't seem to tell much about the condition of Unipay!

The other day I paid off one bill successfully at Unipay, but before the next payment went through, the website crashed, complaining about some kind of "bridge"! Thankfully, no payment got stuck.

When I braved it again after several minutes, the second payment also went through successfully!

It appears that the Unipay site has intermittent, unpredictable failures, which no test payment can say anything about!
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Probably didn't worked for you, but works for majority here, I never faced it and I don't rely on that alone. I have other methods.
 
here you go, added what i know, pls start contributing



PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa Sign
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara Setu
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYES
Airtel
Canara and airtel is also yes for the ones which give rewards on unipay.
 
PortalMCC codeHDFC PDCHDFC Millenia DCIInd Select ViSa SignIDFC DC
HDFC Billpay
RENTALBBPSNONONO
CCBBPSNONONO

HDFCBILLPAY
YESYES
SBI unipay
SBIUNIPAYDBCardYESYESYES
PaytmYES
Mkwik
Cred
Cheq
Canara SetuYESYESYESYES
JIO Finance
REL*RELIANCE PAYMENTYESYESYES
AirtelYESYESYESYES
Canara and airtel is also yes for the ones which give rewards on unipay.
Update the table.
 
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