Bankwest Qantas Transaction account [being withdrawn in 2025]

burmans said:
First part is true but its 1c/transaction. I can still do 50 in a day with largest being a 10c transaction.
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How come you increase it to $0.10 if $0.01 works fine? Just so it doesn't look so funny?

50 transactions/day is the Bankwest imposed limit isn't it?
 
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illumination said:
How come you increase it to $0.10 if $0.01 works fine? Just so it doesn't look so funny.

50 transactions/day is the Bankwest imposed limit isn't it?
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Because Optus have a block on doing the same transaction repeatedly. Others can probably tell you what it is but I think its something like 15 or 20 minutes until you can make another 1c transaction. 5 times 10 transactions (1c to 10c) can be scheduled to run 4 hourly. So its just a convenience thing.

50 trans is indeed a BW restriction.
 
burmans said:
Because Optus have a block on doing the same transaction repeatedly. Others can probably tell you what it is but I think its something like 15 or 20 minutes until you can make another 1c transaction. 5 times 10 transactions (1c to 10c) can be scheduled to run 4 hourly. So its just a convenience thing.

50 trans is indeed a BW restriction.
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And that's why people are trying to get the additional card (whilst keeping the old one active) so they can try and maximise their transactions on two separate cards?
So that implies the limitation is per card and not per account.
And if you maximise "efficiency" by maxing out $0.01 per transaction, then you can only make $0.50 ($0.01 x 50) worth of payments per card per day.
 
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From an earlier experience, I knew that if you didn't pay Optus for a few days, then the 10 minute wait for a payment of the same amount didn't apply, for at least the first day, once you resumed.

In mid January I took a 3 day break (Tue-Thu) from Optus payments and since then, I have been able to pay the same amount repeatedly, without having to wait 10 minutes between each payment. Initially I thought the weekend was preventing the 10 minute restriction be reapplied, however there is still no 10 minute restriction around 2 weeks later.

I don't know if you need to take a break from paying your Optus account, to be rid of the 10 minute restriction, and whether that break must only include business days, or can include weekends or public holidays. I also don't know if a break of 2 days or even 1 day would work as well.

The restriction of 10 payments in 3 hours still applies though. (Note, this rule is that you can only make 10 payments to your Optus account in any 3 hour period. You do not have to wait 3 hours after completing your 10th payment. Just make sure when you want to make a payment, that you have only made 9 payments in the last 3 hours.)

Also, for anyone interested, the code for the continue button for Telstra payments, is in this post.
 
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From what I can ascertain that code does not work on chrome. Only works for Firefox. If anyone knows how to code the same thing in chrome I'd love to hear it otherwise it's a matter of clicking the continue button as mentioned.
 
I read the whole thread start to finish, installed iMacro and worked it out myself. It's really not that hard, all the instructions are in this thread! I'd never be so cheeky as to ask someone to hand me something on a silver platter.

How about you post with what exactly your issue is, where it's not working, and perhaps someone can help you fix that part, rather than relying wholly on others to get you going?
 
scubabe said:
I read the whole thread start to finish, installed iMacro and worked it out myself. It's really not that hard, all the instructions are in this thread! I'd never be so cheeky as to ask someone to hand me something on a silver platter.

How about you post with what exactly your issue is, where it's not working, and perhaps someone can help you fix that part, rather than relying wholly on others to get you going?
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I like your helpful attitude!

I'm on the fence with this one. I agree with not expecting people to spoonfeed you, but on the other hand, not everyone has the same level of expertise/familiarity with "tech". There's no "dummies" guide here either, you'd have to sift through pages upon pages to compile all the "instructions" to figure out how to really do it.

Similarly, you're a bit harsh. I wouldn't say it's "cheeky" (you're making an accusation here).

From an efficiency point of view (if it takes long to setup), it's more efficient for someone to share the work they've already done so that someone who's already spent 3 hours on it is able to save someone else that time that they spent figuring it out themselves anyway.

Just my $0.02.
 
Chriscav25 said:
OK, well this is what I have and it's not working because saved payment button is not found. Obviously the X's are where my account number is. Help please?

URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paymybill?accountId=xx_xx_xx_X#savedPayment
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:NUMBER FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:amount CONTENT=0.01
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:saved-payment-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:confirm-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:makeAnotherPayment
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"saved payment button"?? Are you sure you are starting at the right webpage?

Try starting with:
URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paybill?pvt_access_mode=true#empty

You can then just go through the process manually and record a macro.
 
Chriscav25 said:
OK, well this is what I have and it's not working because saved payment button is not found. Obviously the X's are where my account number is. Help please?

URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paymybill?accountId=xx_xx_xx_X#savedPayment
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:NUMBER FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:amount CONTENT=0.01
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:saved-payment-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:confirm-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:makeAnotherPayment
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I thought it was a "continue-button", at least that's my issue.

Also there is another unsuthorised payment step for the second time you make a payment. At least for me.

I find in firefox, playing the macro again will take care of the make another payment button step.
 
I use chrome so my macro looks different to yours - for starters, my URL to use is

URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paybill#empty

At the end, I stop once I have all my data input. so, iMacro simply fills in the fields for me.

I then manually click on the submit button, and whatever else (e.g. the "you've already made a payment for this amount in the past 2 days, are you really sure?" part.

Then once I have my receipt page up, I have a macro which then refreshes the page for the remaining times.

Works for me, sure it needs me to click on 2 buttons... but then I set up the refresh to play 49 times and go make my morning coffee. When I get back, my transactions are complete for the day. Easy peasy :)
 
Pretty much the same as mine, except I have the simpler URL to refresh and no "pay another bill" step. Running it with the button things gets the same error. So I just manual click the buttons. On the receipt page I play the macro again and it goes back to the payment page as per the first step. Hence why I don't need the pay another bill thing.

Chriscav25 said:
So I'm in Firefox now.
This is the new script
But as soon as it leaves the first page, I get a Telstra page saying 'My Account is not available..."


URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paybill?pvt_access_mode=true#empty
TAG POS=1 TYPE=DIV ATTR=TXT:Skip<SP>to<SP>Content<SP>Contact<SP>us<SP>Personal<SP>Small*
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:accountNum CONTENT=xx_xx_xx_XX
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:NUMBER FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:amount CONTENT=0.01
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:RADIO FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:creditCardRadio
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:creditCardNumber CONTENT=xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_X
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:expiryMonth CONTENT=xx
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:expiryYear CONTENT=xx
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:verifyCode CONTENT=xx_
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ID:emailAddressForm ATTR=ID:email [email protected]
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT ATTR=ID:continue-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:confirm-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:yes-proceed-unauth-payment-duplicate-button-cc
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Pay<SP>another<SP>bill
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There is the following, but I haven't tried it.

hossein_au said:
Do you mean "EVENT TYPE=CLICK SELECTOR="#continue-button" BUTTON=0"? And why do you need to enter the code yourself? Why not record it?
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Chriscav25 said:
So I'm in Firefox now.
This is the new script
But as soon as it leaves the first page, I get a Telstra page saying 'My Account is not available..."


URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paybill?pvt_access_mode=true#empty
TAG POS=1 TYPE=DIV ATTR=TXT:Skip<SP>to<SP>Content<SP>Contact<SP>us<SP>Personal<SP>Small*
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:accountNum CONTENT=xx_xx_xx_XX
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:NUMBER FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:amount CONTENT=0.01
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:RADIO FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:creditCardRadio
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:creditCardNumber CONTENT=xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_X
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:expiryMonth CONTENT=xx
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:expiryYear CONTENT=xx
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:credit-card-payment-details ATTR=ID:verifyCode CONTENT=xx_
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=ID:emailAddressForm ATTR=ID:email [email protected]
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT ATTR=ID:continue-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:confirm-button
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:yes-proceed-unauth-payment-duplicate-button-cc
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Pay<SP>another<SP>bill
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People, for Telstra payments you need to adjust the above code, with the following (works with Firefox):

URL GOTO=https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/paybill?pvt_access_mode=true#empty
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEL FORM=ID:accountPaymentDetails ATTR=ID:accountNum CONTENT=xx_xx_xx_XX
...
EVENT TYPE=CLICK SELECTOR="#continue-button" BUTTON=0 (as TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT ATTR=ID:continue-button won't work)
...
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=ID:yes-proceed-unauth-payment-duplicate-button-cc (End of macro)

Once the duplicate payment button is pressed, the receipt page will appear. Refresh that page to make a second payment. Create a macro to refresh it 50 times or so, to exhaust your card.

And do not log into your account first or during your payments.

Simple.
 

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