Overview

Learn how to pay bills with the Bloc API

Our Bills Payment API allows you to integrate the purchase of airtime/data, electricity bills and TV subscriptions into your application.

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Helpful Tip:

We recently released a new version of the Bills Payment API much simpler than the previous one. A major improvement was that we reduced the number of endpoints required to only 5 — from a previous 11.

We've also consolidated all of our products into these 5 endpoints. You no longer have to integrate each bills payment product separately.

If you're still the using the old version, we advise that you update your integration to the new version. However, we still offer support for the old version.

Available products

With airtime/data, we support the following:

  • MTN
  • Airtel
  • GLO
  • 9Mobile

For electricity, here are the discos available:

  • Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC)
  • Aba Power Electric (APLE)
  • Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC)
  • Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC)
  • Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)
  • Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC)
  • Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC)
  • Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO)
  • Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDC)

For TV subscriptions, we support the following:

  • DSTV and GOTV
  • StarTimes

MD vs Non-MD

When integrating electricity, you'll find the terms "MD" and "non-MD" on some electricity discos. MD means Maximum Demand, and it refers to industrial power consumption by large companies/factories. Non-MD means Non-Maximum Demand, which refers to regular household power consumption.