How to do Advance Recharge for Jio, Airtel & Vi? Limits and Rules

Major Indian telecom operators Jio, Airtel, and Vi are increasing tariffs from July 3rd (Jio, Airtel) to July 4th (Vi). Many customers want to recharge their plans before the price increases. If you're wondering about Jio recharge in advance, Airtel recharge in advance, or Vi queue plan options, this article is for you.

Please note on the web there’s no official information provided by telcos about queuing recharges or advance recharges. So the below-mentioned rules, points or information are based on either the personal experience of our users or us trying to call the customer care executive of these telcos.

Without further ado, here’s a simple guide on whether you can queue or advance recharge your Jio, Airtel or Vi plans or not.

Jio as per some online reports has confirmed to allow users to queue up to 50 Jio recharges. This means Jio users can do up to 50 advance recharges.

We personally tried to call the customer care executive of Jio on their toll-free number 199. Initially, it was of course an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) call but after pressing a few commands, we did get to speak with a human executive. The Jio executive confirmed to us 3 things:

• First, Jio does allow users to queue plans

• Second, Jio prepaid users can queue any plan of their choice. For example, if you are presently on a ₹666 Jio plan with 84 days validity, you can queue a 365-day plan too. 

• Users can do advance recharge for Jio using 3rd-party apps as well (personally verified)

For now, users can take advantage of the Jio recharge queue option and recharge their Jio prepaid SIM in advance before the tariff hike to save some money on their bills. 

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Jio Tariff Hike will make its recharge plans costlier from July 3rd so this can be a good hack to save money on your mobile recharge.

“Today Jio 2999 plan is valid for 365 days. What if next they reduced the plan validity to 330 days?”

Thanks to @kunal7121994 for answering that question.

Users can also save money on their Jio recharge plan by buying Jio recharge vouchers from the MyJio app. As this comment from one of our dimer @New_User reads. Thanks to @total_fun for the quick answer

As you can see in the above image, Jio users can do advance recharge for their prepaid SIM using Jio Vouchers which by the way have no expiry date and can be used anytime you wish.

Keep in mind though if you choose to transfer your Jio recharge voucher, the receiver would have to use the same in a given period of time.

So this was all about sharing the complete details of Jio Queue Plan options, determining if we can do an advance recharge for Jio's prepaid number or not, and lastly, how users can buy Jio Recharge vouchers to save some money. You may also use Jio Recharge Coupon Codes for some extra savings

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Are you an Airtel user wondering if you can do advance recharge for Airtel or not? Well, let’s find out. Regarding the limit of queuing Airtel plans or whether users can do advance recharge or not, the telco confirms,

“If your current plan is Unlimited calls with Daily data ( 209, 239, 265, 299, 319, 359, 399, 479, 499, 519, 549, 666, 699, 719, 779, 839, 869, 999, 1499, 2999, 3359 etc) then similar plans that offer unlimited calls with Daily data recharges will be queued irrespective of the price of the plans & the maximum number of such queueing will be for 730 days post which recharging will fail.”

“If your current plan is Unlimited calls with fixed data (155, 179, 199, 289, 296, 455, 489, 509, 1799 etc) then only queuing of similar plans that offer unlimited calls with fixed data will be valid.”

So clearly, Airtel users can do advance recharge for their prepaid SIM for up to 730 days only. Moreover, users can queue advance recharges of unlimited data plans only with unlimited data plans and fixed data plans with fixed data plans only.

Note that you also have to make sure you are recharging for the same denomination of plan as your existing one. For example, the Rs.1799 Airtel plan can be stacked against the Rs.1799 plan only.

So consider what your current Airtel plan is and then do the recharge accordingly. Thanks to @V76 and @Adamantium for sharing these insights with us here

With the Airtel Tariff Hike starting from July 3rd, be sure to use Airtel coupons and offers if possible for some savings! Can also use an Airtel Axis credit card for 25% cashback on Airtel mobile recharge through the Airtel Thanks app (up to Rs.250 per month billing cycle)

Last but not least coming to the Vi queue plans rules, whether users can do advance recharge for Vi or not, then the good news is yes, Vi users can do advance recharge but stacking or queuing recharges is only applicable on recharge with the same type of benefit. For example, if you previously did a recharge with unlimited data benefits such as Rs.1799, Rs.719. Rs.479, etc then you can only queue a Vi recharge with any of the unlimited data plans only. This means you cannot do advance recharge for your Vodafone Idea SIM with a lumpsum data-limit plan (fixed data plan).

This is explained by some of our dimers here,

“The process is just as simple as recharging/topping up the number in the usual way. In so far as I know, for Idea, only the plans with similar type of benefits can be stacked up. That I'd, plans with 'daily data' can be queued/stacked on each other. However, if there is a combo pack with lumpsum data (example: "N" GB to be used anytime during the validity), then such a pack will not stack up on a running pack with 'daily data limits'. And vice-versa.”

Thanks to @sanghmitra5 for sharing this comment with us here

Also, a big thanks to @kevinmask for taking the risk and sharing with us in the comments below that users can do advance recharge for Vi on any denomination plan. For example, if you are earlier on a Rs.479 unlimited data plan, you can do an advance recharge for a Rs.3099 unlimited data yearly plan as well. The new plan will be queued automatically. Do make sure to read the entire comment here.

Here are some more valuable comments from our users on doing advance recharge for Vodafone Idea prepaid mobile plans.

Upon asking if the data gets carried forward or not on doing advance recharge @beingsr confirmed that the data does get carried forward if we do queue the same plan (same denomination & benefits)

Now that Vi has increased its tariff prices, users can do 1 to 2 Vi mobile recharges in advance and make some savings on their bills. Do note that Vi has not specifically mentioned the validity limit for stacking recharges. So we would advise to only stack 1-2 recharges and not more than that.

While, we are at the topic of discussing advanced recharge rules for Jio, Airtel and Vi, here’s a quick how-to guide on doing mobile recharges in advance

To do advance mobile recharge for your Jio, Airtel or Vi prepaid SIM card, the method is pretty usual and straightforward.

1. Open your telecom operator app such as MyJio, Airtel Thanks app, Vi app

OR

1. Use any other third-party UPI app such as Amazon Pay, Paytm, PhonePe, Gpay

2. Read the above advance recharge guide and accordingly select an appropriate prepaid plan to recharge in advance

3. Once selected, simply pay and complete the transaction

4. Once done, your newly done recharge will be queued on top of your existing plan

5. Your advance recharge plan will now be activated once your existing plan expires

Thanks to @deals_greed for sharing this heads-up with us in the comments below. 

So this was all about sharing how users can do advanced mobile recharge for Jio, Airtel and Vi or in other words, make some savings before the telco tariff hike starts on July 3rd and July 4th, 2024. 

Do share with us in the comments below your experience or any advice for doing advanced mobile recharge for Jio, Airtel or Vi.

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