Pay Your Bills Easily With CBA Loop #LoveLoop #UnbankYourself

Piece by: Harun Momanyi
Lifestyle

Much of the things we know and understand in life has been learned through experience. I can confidently speak for myself about this truth especially when it comes to bills.

A little about myself: I'm a great bachelor. I love life and I try to keep things in order. I get occasionally lazy but that's a good thing. It's never affected me much ...well at least until this one fine day when I got busted.

Long story short - I had surprise visitors on a Saturday morning and I couldn't entertain them because I had neither water nor electricity besides the precious DSTv being off. Yes, I forgot to pay my bills three days earlier despite the warnings of an impending disconnection by the very kind caretaker at our flat. Not even the powerbank could save me when I tried to play music through my phone. You can imagine the embarrassment of me seeing out my friends who each wore unmistakable plastic smiles.

Never again.

Fast forward to today and I'm grateful to have discovered the CBA Loop app. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. No more queues, no more visiting the bank, no more laziness. I learnt from this new experience that there are a lot of places your money can go without you having to do the legwork.

I now make all my payments through Loop, fast and affordably. This includes my mobile money payments, Looping some cash to a fellow Looper (the primary one being my girl who I don't mind treating to the salon every fortnight because she needs to look good), any other bank or international recipients and pay all my bills.

Loop also gives me surprise rewards as a Loopers for utilizing specific app features like purchases, setting up goals, making investments, referring Loop to friends, paying loans on time and much more.

How you too can join the Loop

  1. You can download the Loop App on either or , depending on what device you use. You may also choose to register on the
  2. Complete your application and order for your Loop card
  3. Collect your Loop card from any of their swanky Loop Stores
  4. Load value into your App through either

    1. MPESA paybill 714777
    2. Transfer from another Loop Account
    3. Transfer from a CBA Account
    4. Wire transfer from other Banks (EFT or RTGS)
    5. Cash deposit at any CBA branch

Remember, you've got to collect your Loop card (which you can use to swipe to pay or withdraw money at any of the Loop stores) You can get them at Yaya, Garden City, Mama Ngina, Sarit centre, The Point BuruBuru and Masai Mall Rongai.

How you can send money via Loop

Loop Send Money gives you an option to send money to either Mobile or to Bank using the following channels:

Send To Mobile

  1. Via Loop
  2. Via Pesa Link
  3. Via Mobile Money

Send to Bank:

  • Via Loop
  • Via Pesa Link
  • EFT
  • RTGS

Here's to banking so unconventional, it actually makes sense.