# Overview Our bill payment API empowers businesses to instantly provide bill payment services like Airtime purchase, Data bundle purchase, TV subscription, electricity purchases e.t.c to their users. Before you can successfully make a bill payment, you need to have funded the account from where this transaction would be initiated from. You earn a discount when users make bill payments on your platform. > #### 💡 You earn 0.5% commission on Airtime and Data, 0.5% commission on electricity payments and up to 0.5% commission on cable TV subscriptions --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://smarthive-tech-solution.gitbook.io/smarthive-tech-solution-api/bills-payment/overview.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.