Auto payment for housing and communal services and how to connect it

12
April
2014

Auto payment for housing and communal services will allow you to timely pay utility bills charged by your Management Company or HOA.
Auto payment for housing and communal services works very simply. You activate the auto payment on a specific date. When connecting auto payment, indicate your personal account. On the day of payment, Sberbank looks to see if your personal account has an accrual for the current month. If there is an accrual, Sberbank reminds you with an SMS message from the number 900 that it is time to pay for utilities. And if you do not mind, then he will pay the amount received from the Management Company or the HOA. On the day of payment, utility bills are written off automatically, and you just need to read the SMS that everything has been paid.

It should be noted that auto payment for housing and communal services is primarily good for those residents who pay for services without entering meter readings. Those. according to the standards. But also for progressive Management Companies that have electronic services for receiving meter readings. Or on the UK website or via SMS services.

To connect auto payment for housing and communal services

Enter Sberbank-Online in the Payments and Transfers menu;

Find the drop-down list "My Auto Payments" in the menu on the left;
... Select the "Connect auto payment" item, and a list of available categories of services in which you can connect auto payment will be displayed below;
... Go to the section of the service you are interested in. For example, "rent". Or try to find the required organization by TIN or by name.

Select your Management Company or HOA to enable auto payment;
... Enter your personal account (it is better to take it from the receipt for payment for the last month). Your personal account number will be applied to the database and its value will be verified. If your account is found, then it will be possible to activate auto payment for it.

Confirm the connection of automatic payment by SMS with a password.
Read also how to pay for gas via the Internet and connect.

What you should remember when connecting auto payment for housing and communal services:
... the date of payment for the auto payment must be a little earlier than the last day to pay for the utilities of your Management Company (HOA). It should be noted that the bank processes auto payments on weekdays.
... on the day of debiting, your card must have money to pay for social services;
... transmission of meter readings should be carried out via an alternative channel. It's good if the counters are not needed at all.

This video tells about auto payment services for housing and communal services from Sberbank.

Have you already connected auto payment for housing and communal services?

Expert judgment

I connected Auto payment for housing and communal services, but how to enter water meter readings?

Valery, when connecting auto payment for housing and communal services, you need to take into account that the readings of water meters (or other metering devices) must be transmitted in some other way. Sometimes the recipient's organization has a website (internet service) for entering readings for the current period.
Auto payment for housing and communal services is convenient, first of all, for those who do not have metering devices (meters) and pay according to the regulations. The auto payment mechanism does not provide for the input of the meter reading, since it is impossible to organize automatic debiting in this way.
If you pay according to meter readings, then you need to look for a way to transfer information to the organization. Or accept that the accruals will be carried out according to the standards.

I received an SMS stating that there are no unpaid charges. What does this mean?

Marina, this means that at the time of the auto payment execution (the date that you determined when creating), the housing and communal services organization has not yet issued an invoice for services. Those. You have no debt to the organization at the moment. Here it is better for you to move the auto payment date to the date when the organization has probably made all the accruals (posted receipts). If you have determined the number correctly, then it looks like a failure in the maintenance of charges from an organization or from a bank, and in this case it is better to pay manually this month.

What happens if there is no money to execute auto payment?

You will receive an SMS from number 900 stating that auto payment cannot be made. After that, the bank will check for three days whether you have received money. If money appears on the card, then the auto payment will be executed.

How do I skip Auto Pay this month?

Svetalana, you can skip auto payment this month if one day before the execution of Auto payment you send the cancellation code to number 900. This cancellation code is sent in response to the information message that the auto payment will be executed. If you do not want it to be executed, then send the cancellation code.

In case of automatic payment for EIRTS, what month is the payment for execution?

Valera, upon execution of the EIRTS auto payment, the accrual for the current month will be paid. In order not to miss the payment of the current month, the date of auto payment should be, including when the EIRTS has probably already calculated everything and issued an invoice for the payment of utilities. If, for example, when establishing an auto payment, the 15th day was indicated as the date of the first payment, then the charges of the current month will be paid on the 15th.

Can you please tell me how to turn off the Auto Payment for Housing and Utilities Service, which was connected to me at the bank's office?