Bahrain accounts: new Fawateer bill payment service now available

Last updated: 25 November 2019

In November, we updated HSBCnet’s Bill Payment service to support Fawateer payments in Bahrain.

Fawateer is a bill payment service that allows you to make direct payments to bill payees, or enquire and directly pay specific bill invoices.

You can now use HSBCnet’s Bill Payment service to pay invoices through the Fawateer system. When creating a bill payment from a Bahrain (BH) account, select ‘Bill Payments’ from your menu, and choose Bahrain as the beneficiary bank location. Select ‘View all billers’ to search and select the biller you want to pay. Bahrain offers two types of Fawateer payments (online and offline) that will depend on the biller you select.

	Biller Classification
	Online	Offline
Enquire and pay a bill: allows you to enquire on specific bills that are outstanding with the selected biller and make payments directly to them.	Available	N/A
Quick Pay: allows you to provide specific details to make an immediate payment to the selected biller.	Available	Available
Settlement	Processed after final authorisation 24/7	Processed in either a morning or afternoon batch on bank working days only. For same day processing, Fawateer payments must be fully authorised before 12:10pm AST

Here’s what Bahrain Fawateer payments look like in HSBCnet:

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To begin making Fawateer payments, your System Administrator will need to grant you permissions to the Bill Payment service and the account(s) you’ll be making payments from. The Bill Payment service will be available for any Bahraini Dinar (BHD) account that is already enabled for making ACH Payments or Priority Payments on HSBCnet. For assistance with setting up Bill Payment permissions, or if the Bill Payment service is not available, please contact your local HSBCnet Support Centre.

Find out more

To find out more about using the Bill Payment service on HSBCnet, the ’Bill Payment guide’is available in the HSBCnet Help Centre.

If you need further assistance with using the Fawateer service in Bahrain, please contact your local HSBCnet Support Centre.