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Clients Can Now Pay for Their Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta DNES Subscriptions via the Internet, with the Ceska Sporitelna e-Invoice Service

• the seventh issuer of electronic invoices in the e-invoice service is the MAFRA, a.s. media group
• clients can receive and pay their invoices for subscriptions to Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta DNES faster and more conveniently, directly in their SERVIS 24 Internet Banking
• electronic invoices can also be received from SmVaK Ostrava a. s.; the electricity suppliers ČEZ, E.ON, and RWE; and the Kooperativa and Pojišťovna České spořitelny insurance companies
• the service is already being used by 30,000 clients, who have received some 200,000 invoices through it since its start

As of 9 February, Ceska Sporitelna’s clients can use the e-invoice service to receive and pay invoices issued by the MAFRA, a.s. media group, for their subscriptions to Lidové noviny and Mladá fronta DNES. This is the seventh issuer to permit its clients to receive invoices directly in the SERVIS 24 Internet Banking service and then easily pay them through automatically filled payment orders. Aside from MAFRA, a.s., other issuers of electronic invoices include SmVaK Ostrava a. s., the electricity suppliers ČEZ, E.ON, and RWE, and the Kooperativa and Pojišťovna České spořitelny insurance companies.

“This service, which lets clients conveniently receive invoices and insurance bills in their Internet Banking, is already being used by more than 30,000 Ceska Sporitelna clients. The MAFRA, a.s. publishing house is one of the largest in the country and our clients will newly be able to pay for their subscriptions to the dailies Mladá fronta DNES and Lidové noviny by a single click. This will significantly expand the range of invoice issuers offered, which have been dominated for several years by electricity suppliers such as ČEZ, RWE, and E.ON,” said David Lorenc, Director of Direct Banking at Ceska Sporitelna.

Clients can activate e-invoices directly in the SERVIS 24 Internet Banking service by entering the unique number under which they are registered with the invoice issuer (on invoices for subscriptions to MF DNES and Lidové noviny, it can be found under the client’s address on the right side of the invoice). Ceska Sporitelna will forward the information about the activation of the service to the invoice issuer on the same date, and the issuer will activate the service for the client from its side, as well. Following activation, invoices are only sent to the client electronically, in his SERVIS 24 Internet Banking service. The client no longer receives invoices on paper, but he can save or print up the invoices that he receives electronically. Paying electronic invoices is very simple. If the client does not have a direct debit or another payment method activated, he simply needs to confirm the automatically completed payment order in his Internet Banking. The price for the payment of the electronic invoice is the same as for making any other standard one-time payment order in the SERVIS 24 Internet Banking service (CZK 2). The client is informed of each newly received invoice by SMS or by e-mail, as he chooses.

For further information please contact the Press Centre of the Ceska Sporitelna Financial Group (CSFG):

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