[ale] [OT] Online Bill Pay

[Jim Philips]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:34 pm, Robert Heaven wrote:
> They're all about the same because they all use CheckFree Corp to
> process their payments anyway.

Not all banks use CheckFree for this. Metavante is the number three bill 
payment provider, with Citibank at number two. I have seen the way both 
Metavante and CheckFree work at the back end. If you don't like CheckFree, 
you would really hate Metavante. It's a spit and chewing gum operation. Some 
other banks use a company called Princeton. For awhile, VISA had its own bill 
pay operation and it was the best of the lot. But it didn't survive. It got 
turned over to IBM's ill fated Integrion initiative and the bill payment part 
of that got absorbed into CheckFree.

>
> David Corbin wrote:
> >I've seen some threads about this before, so I don't feel too bad about
> >bringing it up.  I recently started online bill pay with Wachovia +
> > Quicken.
> >
> >I found out the hard way, there is no way to find if a payment is sent
> >electronically or via snailMail (short of speaking with a person), and
> >there's no way to print out a confirmation of single payment (something
> > you can show the bill-er as proof).
> >
> >Can anyone tell me if other banks/bill pay services have better support
> > for this?
>
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