paying with Epay/Wise

I use my Wise card with epay, it works like a debit card. One thing to note - epay won't work to make bill payments if you have auto-translate turned on, the site must be in Bulgarian.

I understand that to make payments to other individuals using epay it's necessary to register for a level 2 account. This needs a Bulgarian mobile phone number, so I haven't done that yet. 

The one time I sent money to an individual's Bulgarian bank account, I did a direct bank transfer to their account using Wise. I don't know what fees they had to pay their bank, but Wise charged only 1.01 BGN to send 1000 BGN.

@janemulberry

thank you

I've sent money direct from my Wise account to Bulgarian individuals and businesses.  Depending on the recipient's bank, they will receive it in around 8 hours if sent in the morning, or the next day, if sent in the afternoon.

I can't say I've used the epay site or app, seems a little confusing

The last time I tried to to pay a water bill, it wouldn't take the payment.

Instead we just walk 50 metres to our nearest Easy Pay office and pay in cash for all our utility bills.

Epay won't do my water, and Easy Pay (same company) won't either. Apparently my water number is correct, but one digit too short to work in their system. I can only pay that either at the VIK or the Post Office.

The thing I like about epay is that once I have a recurring bill set up there, they notify me when a payment is due and in two minutes I can have it paid! It's working great for my electricity bill.

But it was quite tricky getting things set up, and Chrome's auto-translate messes with it, too. I can only make payments by turning auto-translate off.

Wise is excellent for making payments, either on epay, sending money directly to bank accounts, or shopping.

@janemulberry Have you tried adding a zero to the front to the number? We have 2 accounts and both can be paid on epay, one has 10 digits and the other 11 but both start with a zero.

I think I did try that, but I'll give it another go. Mine has 9 digits, a lot of zeros in the middle but none to start.

I was able to do all transactions I needed to do with WISE: transfer money to a Bulgarian account, shop with the card, transfer money from my bank account to WISE ( it happened instantly ). I am ditching the credit card and I will be using WISE from now on- it is better/cheaper. Despite that WISE has raised the fees recently  it is still a deal. I have ability to withdraw $ 200/month free( the Bulgarian bank charges me 9-10 cents per transaction!!!)

We are ripped off in America. I cannot tell you how much my US bank will charge me if I do this direct.

I am sure this is the same in the UK, Australia etc.

Very thankful to this community that introduced me to WISE.

@TonyFF

Also set up correctly you get interest on your balance I get over 200 pounds a year