AIB now allows you to "pay a contact" by phone number if they have an AIB account

Brendan Burgess

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How to pay a contact?

Tap Pay a Contact on your app and follow the instructions on screen to make payment to an Irish account.
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If you have an AIB account, you should link it to your phone number.
Then if someone else has an AIB account, they can go into their App and pay you.


Brendan
 
Brendan Burgess said:
aib.ie

How to pay a contact?

Tap Pay a Contact on your app and follow the instructions on screen to make payment to an Irish account.
aib.ie aib.ie

If you have an AIB account, you should link it to your phone number.
Then if someone else has an AIB account, they can go into their App and pay you.


Brendan
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That's great. I wonder how long it will take the money to appear in the receiving account - only really useful if its instantaneous.
 
Brendan Burgess said:
aib.ie

How to pay a contact?

Tap Pay a Contact on your app and follow the instructions on screen to make payment to an Irish account.
aib.ie aib.ie

If you have an AIB account, you should link it to your phone number.
Then if someone else has an AIB account, they can go into their App and pay you.


Brendan
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same as REvolut. Do they have a "pay near me" option, so that you can pay a person near you without knowing their contact details.
 
I don't think so.
You need to know their phone number and you need to know that they have an AIB account and they must have set up the system to receive a payment. Very simple - it's just confirming that the phone number on their system is yours.

Brendan
 
+1. Was paying a tradesman who is oNe of my contacts and who also has an AIB account. Money was in his account before he left the house. Great facility, just wish it applied to all contacts.
 
This will be great for paying tradesmen, plumbers, window washers, electricians. Having to get cash out to pay them is a pain. We find we are scrounging around for coins these days to pay for some car parks or small tips.
 
I got my first payment from a friend last night using that.

I had completely forgotten about it. I thought it was new.

I tried to send people money to test it, but I could not send it for some reason.

Brendan
 
I suspect that very few people know about it and so have not set it up on their phone to receive money.

I must have set it up to receive money when I started this thread.

Brendan
 
A friend who sent me money yesterday had not set it up to receive money.
He has since set it up and I have sent him a test payment.
 
Yes, it's a handy feature, alright.

I seen to recall that Ulster Bank had it for a while, but then did away with it (a Cour of years before they closed down).
 
Did PTSB have something similar a few years back?

Edit: this?

PTSB MobileMoney

Choose who you want to pay Once they're a Visa customer (of any bank, not just permanent tsb) you only need their phone number! Enter your payment amount Anything up to €150 is good...
www.askaboutmoney.com
 
When I Google how to set up my number, nothing satisfactory appears in the results until this thread at least! I guess the work done to establish instant payments between the banks here might've given AIB enough understanding to do it for themselves anyway.
 
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