Jan 12, 2014, 9:38 am
Last edit by: ChrisFlyer66
This is the thread for posts through 2016. The new thread for 2017 is http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manufactured-spending/1826119-billpay-walmart-2017-a.html
Bill Pay cannot be done at a regular register.
It must be done at Customer Service/Returns.
Or at the Money Center in stores that have it.
BUSINESS DAY transaction completion time is 18:59:59 EST
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WM offers two BP services: CheckFreePAY and MoneyGram. The cashier can initiate CheckFreePAY by selecting Money Services followed by Bill Pay on the register for a fee of $1-1.88. Moneygram is $4.99.
Once your CFP account is set up, you can add cc. When you want to BP give them your phone# to look up your account under Money Services. They often get confused and think you want MG, but just say it is under Money Services.
ONLY 4 successful debit card swipes can pay for a transaction.
ONLY 5 payments per 16 digit account number per rolling 30 days.
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:-:VISA and MC
If your particular card isn't on the list below, try "VISA" or "MASTERCARD."
"VISA" and "MASTERCARD" payee can no longer be found by search at some stores. If the employee can no longer find "VISA" or "MASTERCARD" by searching in CheckFreePAY, then you cannot pay either, end of story.
Following do not work:
$1.88 next day.
$1.88 next day.
:-:Issuing Bank
Discover - Use for all Discover network cards
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
American Express AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) cannot be paid through CheckFreePAY. Some AMEX cards issued by other banks can be paid.
AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) can be paid using MoneyGram for $4.99
Barclay Listed under barclay - need biller zip - $1.50 next day, $1.00 three days
Bank of America Consumer Loans - Use for BoA-issued and FIA-issued cards; will not work for BofA Small Business cards.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days. (Will require a ZIP but apparently yours will work as well as theirs, which is 19886)[INDENT]Works:
$1.50 next day.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
For money order questions, check the following threads and their wiki posts:
Bill Pay cannot be done at a regular register.
It must be done at Customer Service/Returns.
Or at the Money Center in stores that have it.
BUSINESS DAY transaction completion time is 18:59:59 EST
Friday after 06:59PM EST, until Monday BEFORE 07:00PM EST arrives Tuesday
Tuesday BEFORE 7:00PM arrives Wednesday
Wednesday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Thursday
Thursday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Friday
Friday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Monday
But when a next-day payment will post and be visible depends upon the CC issuer.Tuesday BEFORE 7:00PM arrives Wednesday
Wednesday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Thursday
Thursday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Friday
Friday BEFORE 07:00PM arrives Monday
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WM offers two BP services: CheckFreePAY and MoneyGram. The cashier can initiate CheckFreePAY by selecting Money Services followed by Bill Pay on the register for a fee of $1-1.88. Moneygram is $4.99.
Once your CFP account is set up, you can add cc. When you want to BP give them your phone# to look up your account under Money Services. They often get confused and think you want MG, but just say it is under Money Services.
ONLY 4 successful debit card swipes can pay for a transaction.
ONLY 5 payments per 16 digit account number per rolling 30 days.
--------------------------------------------
:-:VISA and MC
If your particular card isn't on the list below, try "VISA" or "MASTERCARD."
"VISA" and "MASTERCARD" payee can no longer be found by search at some stores. If the employee can no longer find "VISA" or "MASTERCARD" by searching in CheckFreePAY, then you cannot pay either, end of story.
Following do not work:
Any and all Vanilla VISA, Vanilla MC, and OneVanilla VISA.
Glimcher VISA
MASTERCARDGlimcher VISA
$1.88 next day.
Works:
VISABank of America Cash Rewards Business MC
Barclay (Arrival, US Airways) MC - Posts at 11PM EST, credit available 1AM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold MC
Citi AAdvantage (Platinum Select, Executive, Business) MC - Posts at 3AM EST (+1 day)
Citi ThankYou Preferred MC
CitiBusiness Platinum Select MC
Does not work:Barclay (Arrival, US Airways) MC - Posts at 11PM EST, credit available 1AM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold MC
Citi AAdvantage (Platinum Select, Executive, Business) MC - Posts at 3AM EST (+1 day)
Citi ThankYou Preferred MC
CitiBusiness Platinum Select MC
Barclay Business US Airways MC - NOT PAYABLE - tried 2x
$1.88 next day.
Works:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barclay Priceline VS
Chase (Amazon, Freedom, Sapphire Preferred, United, Slate) VS - Posts at 10PM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold VS
Citi (AAdvantage, Dividend, ThankYou Preferred) VS
FIA Fidelity VS
PNC CashBuilder VS
US Bank (Cash+, Club Carlson, Flexperks) VS
Wells Fargo Cashback VS
Does not work:Chase (Amazon, Freedom, Sapphire Preferred, United, Slate) VS - Posts at 10PM EST
Chase Business Ink Bold VS
Citi (AAdvantage, Dividend, ThankYou Preferred) VS
FIA Fidelity VS
PNC CashBuilder VS
US Bank (Cash+, Club Carlson, Flexperks) VS
Wells Fargo Cashback VS
TD Bank VS - [Source]
:-:Issuing Bank
Discover - Use for all Discover network cards
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
American Express AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) cannot be paid through CheckFreePAY. Some AMEX cards issued by other banks can be paid.
AMEX cards(SPG, BC, BCE, BCP, etc) can be paid using MoneyGram for $4.99
Barclay Listed under barclay - need biller zip - $1.50 next day, $1.00 three days
Bank of America Consumer Loans - Use for BoA-issued and FIA-issued cards; will not work for BofA Small Business cards.
$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days. (Will require a ZIP but apparently yours will work as well as theirs, which is 19886)[INDENT]Works:
FIA Fidelity VS & MC
BoA Alaska Airlines Visa
Does not work: Capital OneBoA Alaska Airlines Visa
$1.50 next day.
Personal and business CCs
Citibank American Express - Use for Citi-issued AMEX cards$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
Citi AAdvantage AMEX
PNC Bank - Use for PNC-issued Visa network cards$1.50 next day, $1.00 three days.
PNC CashBuilder VS
Warning: Some users have reported being shutdown for using bill pay services.For money order questions, check the following threads and their wiki posts:
Billpay at Walmart(2013-2016)
Dec 7, 2014, 9:06 pm
#3286
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Chyona
Programs: Anywhere I can ski...
Posts: 401
Dec 7, 2014, 9:07 pm
#3287
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Chyona
Programs: Anywhere I can ski...
Posts: 401
Dec 7, 2014, 9:34 pm
#3288
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,948
If BP is dead and RB continues to accept cc, then I'm done with WM. No point in continuing with BB even at that point. Just switch everything over to RB.
Dec 8, 2014, 12:16 pm
#3289
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: PHL
Programs: AA Exec Plat Hilton Diamond Marriott Diamond Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 102
Not Dead
Was able to successfully billpay MC, Visa, Discover and B of A consumer loans yesterday and the one I tried this morning.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Dec 8, 2014, 3:56 pm
#3290
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SF Bay area
Posts: 269
Was able to successfully billpay MC, Visa, Discover and B of A consumer loans yesterday and the one I tried this morning.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Dec 8, 2014, 10:12 pm
#3291
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: a hotel room, somewhere...
Posts: 962
well, someone put it in bold type in the wiki and worded it as definitive. so, i guess, it must be true. move along, nothing to see here.
ummm... ok.
ummm... ok.
Dec 8, 2014, 10:21 pm
#3292
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Posts: 14,162
It mystifies me that so many here seem eager to claim the sky is falling. Maybe it's just a need to seem authoritative, though. Either way it's odd.
Dec 9, 2014, 9:00 am
#3293
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 3,677
It has kept coming back, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week. And always a few places where it doesn't work, even when it does work many other places.
Why people conclude that it not working once, and maybe only in a few places at that, means it's all over forever, totally mystifies me.
Dec 9, 2014, 9:15 am
#3294
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,207
There have been temporary glitches with WM BP, but only for a year or so now.
It has kept coming back, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week. And always a few places where it doesn't work, even when it does work many other places.
Why people conclude that it not working once, and maybe only in a few places at that, means it's all over forever, totally mystifies me.
It has kept coming back, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week. And always a few places where it doesn't work, even when it does work many other places.
Why people conclude that it not working once, and maybe only in a few places at that, means it's all over forever, totally mystifies me.
Dec 9, 2014, 9:18 am
#3295
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 17,425
Glad somebody re-edited the wiki to reflect the current ambiguity. With no definitive story, I guess I'll have to try my Walmart and see what happens. I was trying to avoid that because I have a bad store and there's usually enough confusion to begin with, but I guess if she "finds it," I'm still good.
Dec 9, 2014, 9:25 am
#3296
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Los Angles
Posts: 2,101
There have been temporary glitches with WM BP, but only for a year or so now.
It has kept coming back, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week. And always a few places where it doesn't work, even when it does work many other places.
Why people conclude that it not working once, and maybe only in a few places at that, means it's all over forever, totally mystifies me.
It has kept coming back, sometimes after a few hours, sometimes after a day, sometimes after a week. And always a few places where it doesn't work, even when it does work many other places.
Why people conclude that it not working once, and maybe only in a few places at that, means it's all over forever, totally mystifies me.
Dec 9, 2014, 9:39 am
#3297
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 97
Kinda like the lone dissenter on climate change. Some people are willing to ignore the fact that the other 99.9% of the scientists have come to one conclusion based on mountains of evidence because one shill has been paid to paint a rosy picture for the oil companies, because as long as there's that one guy saying something different, it's "inconclusive".
Dec 9, 2014, 10:15 am
#3298
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,207
Was able to successfully billpay MC, Visa, Discover and B of A consumer loans yesterday and the one I tried this morning.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Tried at three of my local walmarts, all working as if there was no update. Perhaps the update is only to a select list of stores?
So - check your local store, they may not have been affected - and change the WIKI indicating this is dead.
Went to 5 different WMs today and at all, but one, I was able to make payments through CFP. Made several payments at each WM and got rid of all my GCs. At one WM CFP payments towards credit cards were no longer available. So this change is either temporary, selective at some stores or change in progress which will eventually be implemented nationwide. Buying GCs with the plan to pay credit card bills should probably be avoided (at least for now).
Dec 9, 2014, 10:24 am
#3299
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 572
So bill pay works especially on the East Coast? I'm on the West Coast, the bill pay didn't work for me only for 3 days. Now it's working again at all my 4 go to WMs. May I edit wiki?
Dec 9, 2014, 10:27 am
#3300
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 3,677