adding money to account

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

When you are in Russia and you want to add money to your mobile phone account, how do you say that?

положить деньги на счет / добавить деньги на счет?

When you walk into a cell phone store and want to know whether you can make such payments there, how do you say that? Вы принимаете платеж телефонов? Something like that? I'm making these phrases up and would like to know how Russians actually say it. Thanks!

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[trilbyhat.livejournal.com]

Положить деньги на телефон (на мобильник)- especially when you ask your friend to add money to your account
Пополнить счет (rather formal)
Заплатить за мобильник (телефон) - "Подожди минуту, мне еще нужно заплатить за мобильник, - не знаешь, где тут банкомат?"
For example
"У вас можно заплатить за телефон? У меня "билайн".

[alamar.livejournal.com]

The thing which accepts payment is "терминал" usually, not "банкомат".

[trilbyhat.livejournal.com]

Why? In Moscow it is now more common to use cash machines for payments, 'cause they charge no commission.
Also, I wouldn't say терминал, rather где здесь можно заплатить?

[alamar.livejournal.com]

The existance and widespreadness of terminals suggest that most people still use them a lot.

[surkova.livejournal.com]

top-up your mobile phone — положить деньги на счет
and the full phrase is
— Могу я положить деньги на счет? or
— Вы принимаете платежи за телефон?
though, there's a variety of them :)

[shogun-kub.livejournal.com]

"Положить деньги на счет" or "Пополнить счет" is usual. But it's also used for banking, not only for mobile phone account, people can misunderstand you.
In second case I will say "Можно у вас оплатить мобильный [телефон]?" or "Можно положить деньги на мобильный?". The slang word "мобильник"(from "мобильный [телефон]") is also used widely. Usually nobody says "мобильный телефон", just "мобильный" or "мобильник"(or even "мобила", but I think you should avoid this word if you don't want to look funny). :)

[iris-arctic.livejournal.com]

in a cell phone store I usually ask-
- у вас можно баланс пополнить?
- деньги на телефон можно положить?

Though I think that nowadays it's easier to top-up using special 'machines' oh..I dont know how they are called) It's easier to make it manually.

Though the questions are like all the stated above.

[alexzzzzz.livejournal.com]

― У вас можно положить деньги на счет?
― У вас можно пополнить счет?
― У вас можно пополнить баланс?

In any other places than cell phone stores it's better to be more specific:
― У вас можно заплатить за телефон?
― Вы принимаете платежи за телефон?

[d3pr4v4d0.livejournal.com]

+unformal:
-подожди, я кину деньги на телефон (wait a sec, i gonna pay for my cell)
you can tell it ("кинуть денег") to your friend or co-worker etc, it's very unofficial

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Thanks everyone.

[die-dakishimete.livejournal.com]

Положить деньги на счет
Вы принимаете телефонные платежи?

[warpod.livejournal.com]

btw, you can add money to your mobile phone account without saying a single word - there are lots of money terminals.

[greenboot.livejournal.com]

Sometimes that's not very easy.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

>...lots of money terminals.

...which only have menus in Russian ;-)

[warpod.livejournal.com]

I beleive, the OP is qualified enough to read menus in Russian.