What About Online Bill Payment Services?
As a nearly constant user of the internet, I have stumbled upon a very helpful free service AOL offers called Bill Manager Plus. The product basically allows the user to receive secure E-Bills, set alerts (reminders) and fraud protection.
From AOL’s site:
Bill Manager Plus With Spending Alerts lets you:
· Get e-bills from over 4,400 supported billers & banks.
· Securely receive and pay bills using a single password — right from your e-mail inbox.
· Automatically add bill due dates to your calendar.
· Track monthly expenditures with easy to read charts.
· Avoid late fees with bill reminders.
So how is it better than Bill Pay? And what’s the “Plus” all about?
· No other bill pay service allows you to manage and pay your bills directly from your e-mail inbox.
· Other bill pay services don’t offer you Spending Alerts — designed to protect you from fraud.
· Credit card and banking alerts enable you to monitor suspicious activity and large transactions
· Cell phone minute alerts allow you to avoid monthly-minute overage fees from your cellular provider. You’ll always know when you’re dipping into that pricey talk time!
I for one spend a great deal of time “surfing the net†and find the alert feature very helpful. There are constantly new online bill payment services popping up each day and many of them seem to have very positive feedback by users. The key to finding one that’s right for you is to type the name of the service provider in a search engine (like Google) to see what others think of the service. It appears there is no shortage of opinionated customers out here in cyberspace willing to share their experiences. I’ve had a great deal of success working with AOL’s free product and would recommend looking into it if you could benefit from an easy to use boost in organization. For more details click here.
