Technology has increased the speed of the world and our lives go in different directions at times, but the general public still take a place at their desks, sign checks, and mail out their bills. There is now a recently discovered way of paying your bills with no need to fret about due dates or finding the time to sit down and do it. You can pay your bills online. The majority find this type of payment easier, as it can be done anywhere that has web access including work, hotels, or at a local park with a laptop for those who are mobile or run a home business.
The 1st company that was applauded by Forbes mag was CheckFree.com. The service is free, and it’s got a list of firms whose bills you can pay onsite. The difficulty with this site is that some banks don’t offer it, so be sure to check with your banking institution first to work out if this is an option.
Paytrust.com is a bill-paying service that offers bill presentment (it has the capacity to accept electronic or scanned bills thru e-mail). Paytrust.com is a convenient site that has the ability to pay any biller, regardless whether they send out electronic bills. Yahoo is a favored bill paying service, but they do not accept payment to any billing agency that doesn’t use electronic methods. Paytrust.com does make its’ users allot a Paytrust.com address as the bill payer’s address. The sole issue with this delegated address is that the company that is billing may mistake the address for the home address, and then they could send all correspondence to it.
AOL Bill Pay Service is a hit-or-miss process. AOL has traditionally been given credit for their clean designs and their simple web language. AOL’s service also has an “emailing bills” feature. However, AOL is also famous for being slower and making large amounts of errors. The service acts as a consolidator, and then will forward you to different sites to pay your bills. A few individuals feel that this process is confusing and would rather consolidate on their own.
You can also use different bank sites that offer bill-paying services. The banks that are preferred the the majority of the time are Citibank, Wells Fargo, and B.O.A.. Citibank’s service is free, and it offers an “account aggregation” service. Wells Fargo has detailed instructions and has wireless capacities. Bank Of america has a great help section, is free, and has heaps of extras. MSN money is leading in sites for financial services, and MyCheckFree.com is also free to use but has no expense tracking system.
All of these sites can conveniently help you to remember to pay your bills, and they allow you to pay all your bills in one place. Having everything in front of you can sometimes cut down on lingering concerns of whether you paid a bill. If you pay your bills online, you can save a couple of hours in your day that is not sitting and licking envelopes, and you will never have to fret about the electricity being cut off.