BBPS Bill Payment for Business: Paying Utility Bills at Scale
A business with many branches has many bills: electricity, internet, water, telephone. Each has its own due date, and each branch pays in its own way. Late fees and missed payments are common, and finance rarely sees the full picture.
What BBPS is
Bharat Bill Payment System, now branded Bharat Connect, lets you fetch a bill from the biller and pay it through one channel. The bill details come from the biller, so nobody types an amount.
What a business needs from it
- Fetch bills for every branch in one place
- Autopay, so due dates are met
- Limits and approvals for unusual amounts
- A record of every payment for your books
- A view by branch and by biller
Where branch-level bill payment goes wrong
Branch staff pay from petty cash or a personal account, keep a photo of the receipt, and claim it back. The head office sees the cost after the month has closed.
A simple setup
- List every biller and branch account.
- Decide who approves unusual amounts.
- Turn on autopay for regular bills.
- Review a single report each month, by branch.
How OmniCard fits
OmniCard's Bill Payments run on Bharat Connect (BBPS): bills are fetched and paid on autopay for every branch, with the same policy limits as the rest of your spend. OmniCard is run by Eroute Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an RBI-authorised Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuer and a direct NPCI issuer for RuPay cards, UPI (the @omni handle) and FASTag, with no sponsor bank in between.
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