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PayB: pay barcode and QR-coded bills from your phone
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- Scan barcodes or QR codes printed on bills and payment slips
- Pay from a registered bank account with no balance to top up
- Some bills can also be paid by credit card
- Covers tax, pension, electricity, gas, water and telecom bills
- Supports the eL-QR unified QR code for local taxes
- Payment data kept on servers, not on the phone
Paying barcode and QR-coded bills by phone
If a bill arrives on paper with a barcode or QR code printed on it, the practical question is whether a phone can settle it. PayB is built for that case. It is designed around the codes printed on invoices and payment slips, so the bill itself is the starting point.
To use it, you register a financial institution account in the app. The developer says you do not need to load money into PayB beforehand, so there is no balance to keep topped up. The app is free to use. Installing it and any mobile data used while using it are charged to you by your carrier.
Scanning a bill's code in the app
Scanning is the main action. You point the phone camera at the barcode or QR code on the bill, and the app reads it so you can pay that bill. Nothing in the listing describes manual entry, so the code is the way in.
The developer gives one fix for codes that will not read: turn the phone sideways and hold it a little further away. It also says that print quality and the phone model can stop a code from being read, so a failed scan does not always mean a problem with the bill.
Bank account and credit card payments
Payments come out of a bank account you have registered. Because the app does not hold a balance, each payment is taken from the account rather than from money you loaded in advance.
Some bills and payment slips can also be paid by credit card. The developer says this applies only to some of them, so whether a card option appears depends on the bill you are paying.
Bills it covers, including local tax codes
The developer lists tax, pension, electricity, gas, water, telecom and mail-order bills among the invoices PayB supports. Those are the examples the listing gives, and it describes the range as various bills that have PayB codes.
The app also supports the eL-QR unified QR code used for local taxes. The developer names this separately, which suggests local tax notices carrying that code are a case the app is meant to handle directly.
Where your payment data is kept
According to the developer, the data you register with PayB is not stored on your phone. It is kept on servers in a dedicated data centre.
The operator, Billing System Corporation, says it holds PCI DSS certification. That is an international security standard for protecting card and transaction data, and it is the developer's own claim, not something this page has checked.
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About this APK
The build we hold is PayB 3.7.0 (APKS split bundle) for Android 9.0 and up.
- Version
- 3.7.0
- 52
- Requires Android
- 9.0+
- Size
- 2 MB
- Target Android
- 15
- Package ID
- jp.co.billingjapan.payb.customerappandroid.payb
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Clean on 66 engines
- Permissions
- 8 declared · 1 sensitive
- Camera
- Signed by
- CN=Billing System Corporation, O=Billing System Corporation
- Certificate SHA-256
- 973624d329d5f686f00403062178a5dddc86ca56f84b873615f709f64022ec57
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