how late can you be on a PEA payment before electricity is disconnected

[flexomike]

My electric bill is always due on the fifth, I am going to be out of the country until the ninth, went to PEA today to pay my August bill and told them I wanted to pay one month in advance, no can do. Does anyone know how late you can be before you get disconnected.

[Kwasaki]

It's about a month these days in Sukhothai.

[Crossy]

When you say "due" do you mean when it arrives or the final payment date on the bill?

 

Certainly a bill that drops in your box on the 5th will be more than fine paying on the 9th.

 

Going more than a couple of weeks past the final payment date could be risky (and of course you have to go to PEA to pay).

[bolt]

Try and set up a Direct debit

we have that and its the wifes bank account, or see if you can overpay say 4 or 5k THB

[transam]

On the bill, at the bottom somewhere, there is a date it must be paid by, for me, it is about 10 days later, but I have left it later with no probs..

[KhunBENQ]

Just checked last bill.

Meter reading/print date: 23 July

Due date: 2 August

That's only 10 days (to my surprise).

But I am certain that next house they didn't for a whole month and not disconnected.

[KannikaP]

Get the PEA app and you can pay your bill from anywhere in the World.

[bolt]

10 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Get the PEA app and you can pay your bill from anywhere in the World.

can a foreigner use the app or Thai's only 

[KannikaP]

4 minutes ago, bolt said:

can a foreigner use the app or Thai's only 

Been using it for months. Works OK....................oh, and I am a Foreigner!

I think you have to put in the details of the PEA Account holder, which is, in my case, my Thai GF. But it works on my phone.

And I added my next-door sister onto the app.

Edited July 27, 2022 by KannikaP

[EricTh]

23 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Get the PEA app and you can pay your bill from anywhere in the World.

Can we see all the monthly bill amount on this app? I didn't know about this.

 

Anyway, I've been doing auto-deduction from my bank account for years to save me the trouble.

[EricTh]

36 minutes ago, bolt said:

Try and set up a Direct debit

we have that and its the wifes bank account, or see if you can overpay say 4 or 5k THB

Auto-deduction method is too late for OP, it takes a few weeks to process the application. I've done that before.

 

The only solution is to use the PEA app as suggested by Kannika

Edited July 27, 2022 by EricTh

[KannikaP]

1 minute ago, EricTh said:

Can we see all the monthly bill amount on this app? I didn't know about this.

 

Anyway, I've been doing auto-deduction from my bank account for years to save me the trouble.

Yes it shows your current balance, and links to all the big banks, or a card payment.

[EricTh]

Just now, KannikaP said:

Yes it shows your current balance, and links to all the big banks, or a card payment.

No, what i mean is that does it show the current bill in a digital format? 

[bolt]

1 minute ago, EricTh said:

No, what i mean is that does it show the current bill in a digital format? 

Yes i just checked 

and it lists previous payments 

[KhunBENQ]

7 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Can we see all the monthly bill amount on this app? I didn't know about this.

Currently I can look back to April 21 on the table view, more than one year.

They have some diagram view which goes back only 6 months.

[Kwasaki]

37 minutes ago, transam said:

On the bill, at the bottom somewhere, there is a date it must be paid by, for me, it is about 10 days later, but I have left it later with no probs..

Neither do I because you can't pay it in 7-11 after that date. ????

[EricTh]

5 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Currently I can look back to April 21 on the table view, more than one year.

They have some diagram view which goes back only 6 months.

The electrical authority didn't have this PEA app a few years ago when I had the same problem as OP; I needed to go out of Thailand but I can't pay in advance which is strange.

 

Now that we can see the bills in digital format, it is much more convenient to pay online. I will install the app later. 

Edited July 27, 2022 by EricTh

[transam]

10 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Neither do I because you can't pay it in 7-11 after that date. ????

That's water, never had a prob paying electric late, water, yes...????

Forgot, I once had a reminder from electric...

Edited July 27, 2022 by transam

[KannikaP]

14 minutes ago, EricTh said:

No, what i mean is that does it show the current bill in a digital format? 

Well mine says it is waiting payment of Bht 540.07. Is that digital?

[KhunBENQ]

3 minutes ago, EricTh said:

Now that we can see the bills in digital format, it is much more convenient to pay online. I will install the app later. 

Please check whether you can enter a passport ID or still only a 13 digit ID is possible. For the 13 digit you can borrow any Thai person's ID or a "generated".

Doesn't matter regarding the name on the bill.

[flexomike]

54 minutes ago, Crossy said:

When you say "due" do you mean when it arrives or the final payment date on the bill?

 

Certainly a bill that drops in your box on the 5th will be more than fine paying on the 9th.

 

Going more than a couple of weeks past the final payment date could be risky (and of course you have to go to PEA to pay).

due date is on the fifth, I will be back on the ninth so can pay on the tenth

 

[Kwasaki]

12 minutes ago, transam said:

That's water, never had a prob paying electric late, water, yes...????

Forgot, I once had a reminder from electric...

Water and Electric in Sukhothai province can't be paid in 7-11 after the due date. 

[MJCM]

13 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Water and Electric in Sukhothai province can't be paid in 7-11 after the due date. 

Same here, but was surprised that I could pay the Niece Electric bill via the PEA APP even it was 4 days late.

 

FYI.

 

I once made a mistake in closing the bank app after doing an online payment for our electric bill via the PEA app. So the Pea APP kept saying "Waiting for payment" so I paid it again (800 THB it was). And to my utter surprise the earlier payment was deducted from the next months bill.

Edited July 27, 2022 by MJCM

[KannikaP]

51 minutes ago, EricTh said:

No, what i mean is that does it show the current bill in a digital format? 

You mean as a QR code. I haven't seen, or looked for it.

[Kwasaki]

20 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Same here, but was surprised that I could pay the Niece Electric bill via the PEA APP even it was 4 days late.

 

FYI.

 

I once made a mistake in closing the bank app after doing an online payment for our electric bill via the PEA app. So the Pea APP kept saying "Waiting for payment" so I paid it again (800 THB it was). And to my utter surprise the earlier payment was deducted from the next months bill.

Yeah if I forget and go past the due date I give my wife the money and she can pay by pea phone app. 

[scubascuba3]

Can also pay using Kasikorn app without the bill

[zyphodb]

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Been using it for months. Works OK....................oh, and I am a Foreigner!

I think you have to put in the details of the PEA Account holder, which is, in my case, my Thai GF. But it works on my phone.

And I added my next-door sister onto the app.

What is the app called? I've found some PEA apps but not the one that lets you see and pay bills...

[MJCM]

4 minutes ago, zyphodb said:

What is the app called? I've found some PEA apps but not the one that lets you see and pay bills...

Android

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esrith.pea_mobile&hl=en&gl=US

 

iOS

 

https://apps.apple.com/th/app/pea-smart-plus/id1063710354?l=th

[MJCM]

1 hour ago, Kwasaki said:

Yeah if I forget and go past the due date I give my wife the money and she can pay by pea phone app. 

I just use her bank account when paying online

[KannikaP]

11 minutes ago, zyphodb said:

What is the app called? I've found some PEA apps but not the one that lets you see and pay bills...

PEA Smart Plus.