AXS Singapore Information — Visitors Fines and Invoice Funds, GrabPay & Extra

The one folks I knew who used AXS cost machines have been those that have been making an attempt to ‘siam’ the $10 bank card cost by Scoot (it was $6 on the AXS kiosks). However now that Scoot has scrapped the processing charges altogether (Sep 2019), I’m unsure how related AXS stations are anymore.

The commonest makes use of for the machines are for utilities and bank card invoice funds and site visitors police fines. Nonetheless, with cell and on-line banking companies, you are able to do all that within the consolation of your property, in pyjamas even, if you’d like.

Actually, AXS itself has a desktop web site and cell app with the identical service choices because the bodily kiosk, so there’s actually no motive to move to the bodily kiosk.

That’s what I perceive, anyway. However I might be lacking one thing as a result of there are nonetheless some 835 AXS stations in Singapore! If you recognize what the principle advantage of utilizing an AXS machine is, please go away a remark to enlighten me so I can add it in right here.

In any other case… right here’s a information to AXS funds in Singapore.

Varieties of AXS funds in Singapore

There are 3 varieties of AXS platforms:

AXS station machines

AXS stations are the bodily machines throughout Singapore. There are 835 AXS machines islandwide — to search out an AXS machine close to you, head to the AXS web site and key in your deal with.

AXS e-station on-line web site

The AXS e-station is the desktop web site on-line, opened by way of an web browser.

AXS m-station cell app

The AXS m-station is the cell software, to be put in in your good cellphone. It’s obtainable on each the Apple retailer for iOS and Google Play retailer for Android.

By way of AXS, you can also make the next funds:

Bank card payments
Different payments (utilities, telco, and so forth)
Visitors fines (from HDB, LTA, TP and URA)
Different funds (apartment/constructing administration payment, house companies, scholar companies charges)
Pay as you go card top-up
Authorities eServices
NParks BBQ pit reserving and tenting allow software
Ticketing

These are the cost modes accepted:

Fee mode	Issues to notice
Bank card	For chosen funds solely. Solely chosen financial institution playing cards accepted on desktop and cell app.
Debit card	Solely chosen financial institution playing cards accepted on desktop and cell app.
NETSPay (cell app solely)	NETSPay app have to be put in on the identical cell phone. Requires fingerprint or passcode.
eNETS (desktop/cell)	For web banking prospects of DBS, POSB, OCBC, UOB, Citibank and Customary Chartered solely. Requires iBanking token.
DBS PayLah! (desktop/cell)	Requires PayLah! UserID and PIN.
OCBC Pay Anybody (desktop/cell)	Requires UserID and PIN.
Masterpass and Mastercard (desktop/cell)	Requires registered Masterpass pockets or 16-digit card quantity and OTP. Notice: bank cards can’t make cost for bank cards and loans.
GrabPay (desktop/cell)	Can’t earn GrabRewards and can’t make cost for bank cards and loans.

Principally, the AXS station machines solely settle for debit playing cards and bank cards (for chosen funds). They do, nonetheless, settle for extra financial institution playing cards than the net and cell platforms. Along with the standard DBS, POSB, UOB, OCBC and Citibank, the AXS station machines additionally settle for Maybank, HSBC and Diners Membership. So if these are the one playing cards you might have, you haven’t any selection however to swing by a kiosk.

For the e-station desktop web site and m-station cell app, you should utilize web banking, Masterpass/Mastercard, in addition to GrabPay.

Yup, as of August 2019, AXS has included GrabPay as a mode of cost.

AXS funds — now settle for GrabPay

As any credit score card-savvy individual would know, payments, fines and funds to the federal government are typically within the exclusion listing for bonus money rebates, air miles and rewards factors. GrabPay is a attainable workaround for this as a result of you should utilize any bank card to high up your GrabPay pockets and earn the perks for that transaction.

For instance, despite the fact that only a few playing cards reward you for invoice funds, many have promotions for on-line spending. Except GrabPay is acknowledged as an exclusion — sadly, some banks have caught on — your top-up ought to qualify as an internet transaction.

GrabPay can also be helpful if you wish to swipe an Amex, JCB or UnionPay card, since they’re not accepted on the AXS station machines.

Do observe, nonetheless, that you’ll not earn any GrabRewards factors on your AXS funds. You additionally can’t use GrabPay to pay for bank card payments and loans, which is honest.

AXS Plus — save your invoice particulars

Though you don’t want an account to make use of AXS’ cost companies, it might prevent a little bit of time in case you had one.

When you create an AXS Plus account (it’s free), it can save you your invoice account numbers so the subsequent time you make the identical cost, you don’t need to key in all the pieces once more.

AXS scams — double-check your cost abstract web page

Again in 2017, there was an AXS rip-off incident involving a person who tried to get different folks to “by accident” pay his payments for him.

He would key in all his particulars, and intentionally go away his unpaid payments on the cost display, hoping that the subsequent individual would simply proceed keying of their invoice particulars and pay for all the pieces within the “cart”.

This rip-off got here to gentle when a Ms Kimberly Meagan shared her expertise on Fb. Her put up went viral and was shared over 6,000 occasions, with different customers saying they’d related experiences too.

That is outdated information, however I believed it was price a point out anyway. When you’re making funds by way of AXS, all the time double- and triple-check the funds abstract web page earlier than you “take a look at”.

AXS promotions — film ticket reductions, win Bose headphones & extra

For most individuals, it’s simply simpler to make invoice funds by way of cell banking. Nonetheless, if for no matter motive you need to undergo AXS, chances are you’ll be pleasantly shocked to search out that they’ve fairly a couple of ongoing promotions.

For instance, after I paid a bank card invoice earlier this yr, I unknowingly entered myself right into a fortunate draw to win a Porsche and obtained a 6-month Invoice Guard Insurance coverage Plan by Chubb. It was a part of an enormous Drive the Dream 2 marketing campaign, however that ended on 31 Jul 2019.

There’s no massive giveaway in the intervening time, however there are a couple of perks:

AXS HDB Immediate Treats (1 Oct to 31 Dec 2019)

For each HDB cost made by way of AXS (excluding fines), you possibly can select 1 of the next:
1) $3 off a pair of tickets at Shaw Theatres JCube, Seletar and Paya Lebar Quarter
2) 15% off KristalBond Photo voltaic window coating service at Arc Ground Pte Ltd
3) or a 1-for-1 deal on the Ogawa Cuddly Contact pillow.

This promotion is just obtainable for AXS station machines.

AXS American Specific invoice cost promotion (1 Oct to 31 Jan 2020)

Win a set of Bose SoundSport Free wi-fi headphones (price $319) while you pay your Amex invoice by way of AXS. The marketing campaign runs till Jan 2020, and there are 60 units to be gained.

Relevant for Amex invoice funds by way of AXS station machines, in addition to on-line and on cell.

AXS OCBC Pay Anybody promotion (1 Oct to 31 Jan 2020)

Win a Dyson V11 Absolute cord-free vacuum cleaner (price $999) while you use OCBC Pay Anybody on AXS (for invoice, top-up, eServices and insurance coverage funds).

There is no such thing as a cap to the variety of entries, however every transaction/invoice cost will earn you 1 probability. The promotion runs till 31 Jan 2020, and there are 4 units to be gained.

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