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Confirm the ECG meter number before you pay

The name that comes back on *714*22# is your last chance to avoid sending a token to another household.

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Guglex Technologies

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*714*22#

Meter numbers are easy to mistype. Ewale showing a registered name is not decoration. If that name is not your house, the token will still be valid — for them.

Payments happen on Ewale (ewalepay.com or *714*22#), not on this blog.

What you need

  1. Eyes on the sticker on the meter, not a number from an old WhatsApp chat.
  2. Someone who knows the registered name.

The flow on *714*22#

  1. Read the meter number aloud.
  2. Enter it on *714*22#.
  3. Read the name that returns. If it is wrong, abort.
  4. Only then enter an amount.

After you pay

A cancelled session before PIN is not a purchase. A confirmed PIN on the wrong meter is a completed gift to that meter.

If something fails

  • Landlord meter vs your meter: Pay the meter that serves your lights. Confirm with the people in the house.
  • Shared compound: Each meter has its own number. Do not recycle a neighbour’s successful number.

Name check first, money second. That order saves tokens.

Dial Ewale now

Keep *714*22# saved. It is the backup that works when an app, OTP, or data fails. One shortcode also pays Ghana Water and TV bills.

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