This advanced solution empowers ABL accountholders to seamlessly conduct e-commerce transactions on various online merchants ranging from retail stores, food, apparels, healthcare, electronics, gifts, travel, education, charity and various other categories. One of the unique features of NIFT ePay and PayFast service includes account-based payments as customers can make these payments directly using a bank account number without any debit or credit card.
All ABL individual customers can make these online payments with peace of mind as we have made these transactions secure with following controls:
- Before making first time payment through NIFT ePay & PayFast, each customer needs to call Allied Phone Banking from their registered number to activate this service after providing verification. This service can be activated for any timeframe as per customer’s convenience.
- For verification of each payment, customer will receive 6 digits OTP (One Time Password) through SMS on their registered mobile number. Please remember not to share this OTP with anyone.
- Against each successful payment, ABL will send free confirmation SMS on customer’s registered mobile number
If you haven’t used this exciting service, please activate it now to enjoy online shopping experience anytime from anywhere.
To activate your NIFT ePay & PayFast service, please call Allied Phone Banking at (021) or (042) 111-225-225.
*For Pakistan, Allied Phone Banking calls its customers from 1222
For complete list of merchants accepting this payment method, please click here.
NIFT ePay payments are also integrated with various other payment aggregators like KEENU, Bsecure, Safepay, Blinq, Haball, Skoolify, Front Pay
If you see any of the below logos at the time of checkout, please proceed to make the payment.
For seamless transactions, follow this step by step guide below:
Important: In case your NIFT ePay & PayFast Service is not active, please call Allied Phone Banking at (021) or (042) 111-225-225 and request to activate NIFT ePay & PayFast service on your account. To avoid this step for every transaction, please request service activation for longer time period.
Shop on your desired e-commerce merchant’s website and upon checkout, select NIFT ePay or PayFast as payment option (in case NIFT ePay & PayFast are not available in payment options, select any of the below mentioned payment aggregators)
Keenu
Safepay
Blinq
Skoolify
Habal
- Select Allied Bank from the list of banks.
- Enter your bank account number & CNIC number.
- Click “Send OTP” to receive 6 digits OTP on your registered mobile number through SMS.
- After entering 6 digits OTP, transaction will be completed and you will receive a confirmation message from the bank on your registered mobile number.
Please do not share OTP with anyone. Kindly note that, Bank never asks you to share the received OTP by contacting you.
Q1:What is NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce Service?
Answer: NIFT ePay is a payment platform introduced by National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT) for providing quick, secured and adaptable e-commerce transactions.
PayFast is also a robust payment platform introduced by Avanza Premium Payment Services (APPS).
NIFT ePay & PayFast both support variety of e-commerce merchants where ABL customers can conveniently conduct e-commerce transactions directly using bank account number without any debit or credit card.
Q2: Eligible Customer for NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce Service?
Answer: All individual accountholders or Joint accountholders with either or survivor marked as operating instructions are eligible for NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce Service.
Q3:Does customer need to have a Debit or Credit Card to conduct transaction on NIFT ePay & PayFast?
Answer: No, NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce service does not require card information. It only requires customer to provide Account Number and CNIC Number. Customer will receive an OTP on registered mobile number to authorize transaction.
Q4: How does customer activate / deactivate NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce service?
Answer: Customers are required to call Allied Phone Banking at (021) or (042) 111-225-225 and request agent for NIFT ePay & PayFast e-commerce service activation/deactivation.
Q5: Does customer need to set a PIN for NIFT ePay & PayFast transactions?Answer: Unlike Debit Card, customer is not required to set a PIN (personal identification number) for NIFT ePay & PayFast transactions. But to ensure security parameters, Bank will be sending an OTP (One Time Password) to customer, every time customer attempt to make a payment using NIFT ePay & PayFast.
Q6:For how long customer can keep session activated?
Answer: In line with customer’s convenience, NIFT ePay & PayFast is a time-based e-commerce service and will remain activated till the end of period requested by the customer.
Q7: Which websites have NIFT ePay & PayFast facility?Answer
Allied Bank Customers can proceed with NIFT ePay & PayFast payments at any website where they see NIFT ePay & PayFast as payment option at checkout.
Moreover, NIFT ePay is integrated with various payment aggregators like KEENU, Safepay, Blinq, Skoolify, Front Pay and Haball. Therefore, websites where NIFT ePay and PayFast are not available in payment options, customer can make NIFT ePay payment by selecting any of above-mentioned payment aggregators.
Q8:When will be customer account debited?
Answer: After authentication of OTP, customer account will be debited and funds will be transferred to respective payment account.
Q9:How many attempts are allowed to input wrong OTP?
Answer: Customer will be allowed to enter wrong OTP three times. On third attempt of wrong input of OTP, the transaction will be cancelled.
Q10: Dispute lodging incase payment is deducted from account but order not processed successfully.
Answer: In case of any issue wherein customer account is debited but the order is not processed successfully, customer is required to reach Allied Phone Banking at (021) or (042) 111-225-225 and log complaint regarding same. Funds will be reversed to customer’s account after due verification.
Q11:What are transactional limits for Purchase?
Answer: Daily Transaction Amount limit: PKR 100,000/-
Daily Transaction Count limit: 05
Q12:In case I need support during transaction where shall I call?
Answer: Customer can dial ABL Helpline at (021) or (042) 111-225-225 anytime for transaction support.