How to Share Balance on Jazz, and How to Ask Someone Else For It

Jazz lets prepaid users send balance to each other, and it also lets you do the opposite: send someone a request asking them to send you some. Most guides only cover the first half.

We wanted to give you Jazz's own figures for the charges the way we did for Ufone. Jazz's website refused our request, so this guide separates what we can state from what we can only report, and the second list is longer than we would like.

Sending balance

Dial the whole thing in one string:

*100*receiver number*amount#

So sending Rs 100 to 0300 1234567 is *100*03001234567*100#. A confirmation SMS arrives, you reply as it instructs, and the transfer completes.

Both numbers need to be Jazz prepaid. A postpaid number will not work as sender or as recipient.

Requesting balance, which almost nobody knows about

This is the part worth taking away from this guide. If you are the one who has run out, you do not have to ring round asking people. Jazz has a request service.

Dial *107#, enter the number of the person you want to ask, and they receive a request notification. They can then send balance using the code above.

It is more useful than it sounds. Somebody with no balance often has no way to ask in the first place, which is the whole problem, and a request does not need credit to send.

What we could not verify, and why we are saying so

We tried to read the terms from jazz.com.pk. The site returned a 403, refusing the request outright, so we have nothing from the source.

What third party sites report, and where it falls apart:

• Charge: Rs 8.60 including tax per transfer is the figure repeated most often.
• Maximum per transaction: Rs 500.
• Daily limit: here it breaks down. One source says the total daily transfer limit is Rs 500. Another says up to 5 transactions per day at a maximum of Rs 500 each, which would make the daily total Rs 2,500.

Those two cannot both be true, and the difference is a factor of five. We are not going to pick the one that reads better. If the daily limit matters to what you are doing, dial *100# on your own connection or call 111 and ask, because the terms as they apply to your package are the only ones that count.

An older version of this guide on our own site stated the Rs 500 daily limit as fact. We have removed that claim rather than leave it standing on a source we cannot check.

Where Jazz sits against Ufone

Worth knowing if you have a choice of which SIM to send from.

On the reported numbers Ufone is the cheaper of the two and allows slightly more per transfer, but note the last row before drawing conclusions: one column is verified and the other is not. Our Ufone balance sharing guide has the confirmed figures.

If the transfer will not go through

1. Check you have the amount plus the fee. The charge comes out of your balance in addition to what you send.
2. Check both numbers are prepaid. Postpaid is not supported in either direction.
3. Check the number format. Full number with the leading zero, no spaces, no country code.
4. Check you have not hit the daily cap, whatever it actually is.
5. If none of that applies, the SIM itself may be the problem, and our guide to fixing a Jazz SIM that is not working covers the usual causes.

When a package beats a transfer

If you are sending balance to the same person repeatedly, you are solving the wrong problem and paying a fee each time to do it.

Someone burning through credit on data needs a bundle, not top ups, and our guide to Jazz monthly internet packages covers what is available. If they are simply short before payday, the free MBs offers and Jazz's advance balance options cost less than a transfer with a Rs 8.60 fee attached.

Questions readers are asking

What is the Jazz balance share code?

Dial *100*receiver number*amount#, for example *100*03001234567*100#, then reply to the confirmation SMS.

How do I request balance on Jazz?

Dial *107# and enter the number of the person you want to ask. They get a request and can then send balance to you.

How much does Jazz charge for balance sharing?

Rs 8.60 including tax is the figure most widely reported. We could not confirm it from Jazz, whose site refused our request, so treat it as a reported number rather than a certainty.

What is the daily limit for Jazz balance share?

This is genuinely unclear. One source says Rs 500 in total per day, another says up to five transfers of up to Rs 500 each. Dial *100# or call 111 to see what applies to your connection.

Can I send balance from Jazz to another network?

No. Balance sharing works between Jazz prepaid numbers only, as it does on every network in Pakistan.

Is Jazz or Ufone cheaper for sharing balance?

On the reported figures Ufone is cheaper, at a confirmed Rs 4.78 against Jazz's reported Rs 8.60. The Ufone figure comes from Ufone; the Jazz one does not come from Jazz.