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# 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