Orange PAYG online

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> The Orange online service to monitor balances and make top-ups with a
> registered credit card appears to have gone tits-up. Can anyone confirm
> that this is a general problem and not just one with my account?
>
> What useful alternatives exist - does Orange offer an auto-topup system to
> charge a card when the phone's prepaid balance falls below a set value?

No.

> I'm intent on preventing a child's phone from becoming starved of funds
> but I do not want to put that phone's service onto a monthly contract.

You can set up a direct debit - the minimum top up is £10 per month, and
you get 10% bonus credit for topping up this way.
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"Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> The Orange online service to monitor balances and make
> top-ups with a registered credit card appears to have
> gone tits-up. Can anyone confirm that this is a general
> problem and not just one with my account?
>
> What useful alternatives exist - does Orange offer an
> auto-topup system to charge a card when the phone's
> prepaid balance falls below a set value? I'm intent on
> preventing a child's phone from becoming starved of funds
> but I do not want to put that phone's service onto a
> monthly contract.

How about letting said child manage their own credit?
That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
they might just learn the value of money.

Orange PAYG has the facility to make a short (<30 seconds?)
call if totally out of credit, so they could still phone
home in an emergency.

KF

Having been an O customer for almost 10 years now I can safely say that the
words "Website" , "Orange" and "Working" have NEVER gone together ESP when
accessing acct info (even just trying to log-in even)

They direct you to a 50p a min phone no.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
George Orwell <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> How about letting said child manage their own credit?
> That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
> they might just learn the value of money.
>

Indeed. I would have thought that dialling 453 would have been within the
capabilities of any child who had the necessary skills to use the phone for
'normal' purposes.
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"Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The Orange online service to monitor balances and make top-ups with a
> registered credit card appears to have gone tits-up. Can anyone confirm
> that this is a general problem and not just one with my account?
>
> What useful alternatives exist - does Orange offer an auto-topup system to
> charge a card when the phone's prepaid balance falls below a set value?
> I'm intent on preventing a child's phone from becoming starved of funds
> but I do not want to put that phone's service onto a monthly contract.
>
> Tony

Why don't you want a monthly contract?
That seems to me to be the answer to your problems.
Mike.

"Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:13:05 -0000, "Roger Mills"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> > George Orwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > How about letting said child manage their own credit?
> > > That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
> > > they might just learn the value of money.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed. I would have thought that dialling 453 would
> > have been within the capabilities of any child who had
> > the necessary skills to use the phone for 'normal'
> > purposes.
>
> That will disclose the account's balance but I don't know
> that it can be used to add credit, as I had been doing
> via the now broken web service.

You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe card in any Orange
shop, also many other locations such as supermarkets. The local O shop
round here is always full of kids crediting their phones. I used to know
the previous manager there, he once told me that some of them were
practically daily visitors, putting a fiver on one day and then coming
back the next day to do the same..!

Ivor

>
> Tony

"Mike GW8IJT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> "Anthony R. Gold" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected]...
> > The Orange online service to monitor balances and make
> > top-ups with a registered credit card appears to have
> > gone tits-up. Can anyone confirm that this is a
> > general problem and not just one with my account? What useful
> > alternatives exist - does Orange offer an
> > auto-topup system to charge a card when the phone's
> > prepaid balance falls below a set value? I'm intent on
> > preventing a child's phone from becoming starved of
> > funds but I do not want to put that phone's service
> > onto a monthly contract. Tony
>
> Why don't you want a monthly contract?
> That seems to me to be the answer to your problems.
> Mike.

Because it would allow a child to run up an unlimited bill. I go along
with the suggestion to let them manage their own credit.

Ivor

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe card in any Orange
>shop, also many other locations such as supermarkets.

I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though. My
daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I recently changed my
credit card so needed to register the new card with Orange. It took
several days to get through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a
call queue.

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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe
> > card in any Orange shop, also many other locations such
> > as supermarkets.
>
> I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though.
> My daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I
> recently changed my credit card so needed to register the
> new card with Orange. It took several days to get
> through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a call
> queue.

No, a swipe card can be activated by calling 450 I think and going through
the menu options. Once that's done, it can be used in lots of places. A
swipe card isn't like a credit/debit card.

Ivor

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ivor Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]
>> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe
>>> card in any Orange shop, also many other locations such
>>> as supermarkets.
>>
>> I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though.
>> My daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I
>> recently changed my credit card so needed to register the
>> new card with Orange. It took several days to get
>> through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a call
>> queue.
>
> No, a swipe card can be activated by calling 450 I think and going
> through the menu options. Once that's done, it can be used in lots of
> places. A swipe card isn't like a credit/debit card.
>
> Ivor

Indeed. It's a card supplied by Orange, which has to be registered to your
phone - which you do by ringing the appropriate number from the phone
itself, and keying in the card's number. Once you have done that, you simply
have to trog along to Wollies - or almost any supermarket - and they will
swipe the card, relieve you of a fiver or whatever, and the credit is
instantly added to your phone.
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>> Why don't you want a monthly contract?
>> That seems to me to be the answer to your problems.
>
> Because it would allow a child to run up an unlimited bill. I go along
> with the suggestion to let them manage their own credit.
>

Surely any auto top-up system would also allow a child to run-up
an equally big bill?

Good way is to let them take responsibility for the balance - knowing they
will be grounded if they want to go out with a balance of zero on their
phone

"DMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> > > Why don't you want a monthly contract?
> > > That seems to me to be the answer to your problems.
> >
> > Because it would allow a child to run up an unlimited
> > bill. I go along with the suggestion to let them manage
> > their own credit.
>
> Surely any auto top-up system would also allow a child to
> run-up an equally big bill?
>
> Good way is to let them take responsibility for the
> balance - knowing they will be grounded if they want to
> go out with a balance of zero on their phone

That's what I meant. I did not say an automatic top-up system, I said let
them manage their own credit which is exactly what you suggest.

Ivor