How to generate remita code – If you wish to pay school fees, FRSC, or any federal government agency, other businesses using the remita platform but do not know how to generate the RRR or go about the payment in the first place, I think this is the best web page that’ll solve your puzzles.
The guide you are about to read has been written in the most elementary language that aids understanding of the concept.
With this be sure to start treating your remita related transactions without further trouble or herculean task whatsoever.
What is Remita?
Remita is a platform that enables government and non-governmental organizations or personal businesses to receive and make payments to concerned receivers.
With remita you can easily transfer money to several beneficiaries, pay your bills, and view detailed transactions real time.
There’s channel for businesses to receive payments from customers as stated above, this receipt could happen via a number of channels which include;
- Remita Mobile App and website
- Internet banking
- POS terminals
- Debit/credit cards,
- Merchant’s website
- Bank branches
- Mobile wallets and
- Standing Order
In Nigeria today, Remita is the preferred and default payment gateway that enhances the Federal government of Nigeria’s Treasury Single Account (TSA).
Remita was launched in 2005 in Lagos Nigeria by SytemSpecs.
How to generate remita code
If you want to generate remita retrieval reference (RRR), it could be for paying different TSA’s and organization like
- Federal government TSA
- State TSA
- To pay a biller
To pay federal government TSA
- Visit www.remita.net
- Click “Pay FGN’s and State TSA”
- Select the option “Pay federal government of Nigeria”
- Type the name of the Ministry Department and Agency (MDA) in the field “Name of MDA”
- Select the name of the service or purpose that relates to the payment you are looking to pay.
- Follow the onscreen to complete your transaction and generate your remita retrieval reference.
To pay State government TSA
- Visit the remita website step 1 above
- Select the state you wish to pay
- From the “Who do you want to pay” type the MDA
- Select the name of the service or purpose that relates to the payment, then complete the remaining steps from the onscreen.
- Click submit to generate your RRR
To pay a biller
- Visit the remita website as seen above
- Click “Pay a biller”
- Type the MDA/corporate from the “who do you want to pay column”
- Select the name of the “Service/purpose” that relates to the payment
- Click on submit to generate your RRR.
How to pay school fees with Rmita
Since you now know how to generate remita code, you can use the same RRR to complete your payments which include payment of school fees, acceptance fees, etc.
Note: No one RRR can be used for different payments, each payment requires you to generate a new remita code.
How to pay your school acceptance fee at the bank
To complete this process it’s advised that the application page of your institution should be ready, once that is guaranteed you can commence in earnest.
- Visit your school portal
- Click on “Make Payment on Remita Link”
- In the next slide, click on “Pay with Remita”
- Click on submit thereafter to generate “Remita Retrieval Reference” (RRR)
- Copy your 12-digit RRR generated
With the above steps, you have successfully generated a remita retrieval reference to pay your acceptance fee.
Kindly visit a commercial bank of choice to complete your payment.
On arrival at the bank you will be required to complete a deposit slip containing your transaction details which includes the 12-digit reference number.
The transaction will be treated and you will receive a copy of remita print out. That’s it.
On successful payment at the bank, return to applicant login page on the portal with your username and password to complete the process.
How to confirm payment on remita
- Kindly visit the website as seen above
- Log in to your remita user account (You ought to have signed up)
- Kindly find and click the link thus “Pay an invoice”
- In the column provided insert your (RRR) Remita Retrieval Reference, having filled up the provided spaces, click on “Continue.”
On confirmation of remita payment you should receive any of the below messages
- The reference payment has been processed, this indicates that your payment has been completed successfully.
- The remita page will populate for you to continue/complete the payment process, this means to say the payment is not successful yet or has not been initialized
- This reference does not exist please check and try again, this means that your RRR was mistyped.
How to generate Remita/pay for your national ID card modifications and e-ID card and reissuance of NIN slip
- Visit the remit portal with the address above
- Click on option “pay bills”
- In the column that says who do you want to pay “Type in National Identity Management Commission.”
- In the name of service choose “The service you are paying for”
- You will see amount to pay depending on your choice of service you wish to pay
- Type in other details like your complete name, phone number, check the catcher box
- Kindly click on the submit icon to proceed, an invoice will come up displaying your RRR, take note of this 12-digit RRR
- It’s time to choose a payment method suitable to you which could be: Card, Bank details, USSD, Internet banking, or wallet option.
How to pay E-invoice on remita
- Go to remita.net
- Select “Pay a biller”
- Select the option “Pay E-invoice”
- Enter the RRR
- Fill in the details and click submit
How to pay with POS channel
Visit the location of the biller/merchant with a configured POS terminal, supply your RRR and use your card to complete payment at the terminal.
How to confirm presented receipts
- Log in to remita profile
- Select the submenu “Confirm presented receipt under the collections menu
- Enter the RRR provided by the customer/payer
- Click on view receipt
- Select the number of copies to view the receipt.
Conclusion
Before you proceed to making several payments on the remita platform, you’ll first off learn how to generate remita code.
Thereafter you may decide a payment type which could be through the bank, USSD, internet banking or via the wallet, as appears suitable to you.
This information is helpful and has gone a long way.
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