Paying bills in Norway

Whether bills are included in rent? It depends on the rental contract.

Bills are normally paid online via receipt of e faktura (electronic invoice).  You need to request for this service by logging online and looking for the company you are paying.  Most bills are paid this way because they will charge admin fee if you want to receive a physical invoice.  the admin fees is approximately 50kr per physical invoice.

This type of payment is good because that means you don't have to worry about invoices lost in mail etc.  In addition, you can schedule your payment in your pending payment for the invoice so that you are never late for payment.

Need a Norwegian  bank account and Personal Id number. Both to get a bank account and to operate it. DNB are usually more helpful than Nordea.  Most bills are done via electronic transfer  with an amount, account number and a KID number (on the bill). No charge for these actions. Efacturers are unreliable and end up costing you money in fines and late fees when they dont work. I dont use them as you get charged for the banks mistakes. Post office payments can be made in cash but there is a hefty fee. I have had cash 100,000 kr stolen by post office workers pretending to pay money in for some bills. In the Kodal post office Trust no one, get recepts for everything. I find most nowrgians will happily fleece foreigners at any opportunity. They wont hesitate to find a reason to extract money from you  be it on a personal or commercial level.  And organisations are happy to lie to you, defend it with beauraucracy to ensure you pay more than you need to.
For funds from abroad western union is by far the cheapest with direct to bank transfer.

xsdev wrote:

Need a Norwegian  bank account and Personal Id number. Both to get a bank account and to operate it. DNB are usually more helpful than Nordea.  Most bills are done via electronic transfer  with an amount, account number and a KID number (on the bill). No charge for these actions. Efacturers are unreliable and end up costing you money in fines and late fees when they dont work. I dont use them as you get charged for the banks mistakes. Post office payments can be made in cash but there is a hefty fee. I have had cash 100,000 kr stolen by post office workers pretending to pay money in for some bills. In the Kodal post office Trust no one, get recepts for everything. I find most nowrgians will happily fleece foreigners at any opportunity. They wont hesitate to find a reason to extract money from you  be it on a personal or commercial level.  And organisations are happy to lie to you, defend it with beauraucracy to ensure you pay more than you need to.
For funds from abroad western union is by far the cheapest with direct to bank transfer.

That is interesting because I never had a problem paying efaktura and all my bills are paid via efaktura.  Then again, I always check my invoices and track my monthly payments.  So far so good, cross my fingers, I have not had unpleasant experience.

my friend once told me that her father did some research of exchange rates and found that paypal offers the best rates.  I am unsure if it is still true now.  But transferwise seem to be very popular among the foreigners for cheap rates.

I personally still use interbank transfer because I am just too worried about my money lost in transit.