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- Most online bill pay services are now free. But some still charge up to about $10 a month.
- Use a service that stands behind its electronic payment system, such as paying late fees and handling problems with vendors if you made the payment several days before the due date.
- Make payments at least four days before the actual due date to ensure it arrives and is posted on time.
- When you figure the cost of the check, stamp and envelope for every non-electronic transaction, online bill pay is cheaper and safer.
- When you figure the cost of the check, stamp and envelope for every non-electronic transaction, online bill pay is cheaper and safer.
- Make payments at least four days before the actual due date to ensure it arrives and is posted on time.
- Use a service that stands behind its electronic payment system, such as paying late fees and handling problems with vendors if you made the payment several days before the due date.
Digital "nag" app helps remind you to save
Having trouble paying yourself first each time you get paid? There's a free digital nag out there that will help you meet your savings or retirement goals.
Text message reminders help you save
Are you someone who wants to save, but you can't seem to get it done? Then you need a nag. (No, I'm not volunteering for the job!) If you'll just go to AmericaSaves.org, you'll meet your new electronic nag. At AmericaSaves, you can click the 'pledge' button and set up ...
Discover to get into the online banking market
Discover, the people who do the credit card, are in the process of morphing into an online bank. This is a great development. Online banks have clean-sheeted the idea of what a bank should be by going without branches and having lower overhead. The real benefits are for those who ...
MasterCard rolls out new digital payment system
There's a new way to pay using your smartphone that could be coming to the United States possibly by late spring. MasterCard and Visa are both terrified of major cell phone operators offering payment systems to their users. They're terrified of Apple and Google doing the same thing too. So ...
Big banks becoming more transparent with fees?
While you were on winter break, the big banks may have been using the holiday season to push through new fees they hope you won't notice. Years ago, a listener who happened to be a disgruntled bank employee shared a trade publication called Fee Income Report with me. In the ...
Make budgeting your goal for 2013
Budgeting is a topic that's front and center again for many Americans. Many people think of budgeting like being in prison, but I think it's freeing. Budgeting lets you reduce your financial insecurity and gain control back. There are great, free budgeting tools online like Mint.com that I have used, ...
New simple option for banking
Are you tired of being fee'd to death at your traditional bank? There could be a "simple" and free solution for you. Simple.com is a new banking alternative that's basically clean-sheeted the idea of what a bank should be. With it, there are no fees on ATM withdrawals, checking accounts, ...
The end of bank tellers?
Bank tellers may soon be going the way of the dodo if a new trend in banking (that was actually popularized by a failed bank) takes hold again.
Credit unions still top customer satisfaction index
I have long believed companies that romance their employees succeed in the marketplace because their workers in turn romance the customer. Now the latest results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) bear out my belief. In the past, the ACSI people tracked companies that have done well in their ...
A reason to stick with paper bill statements
Everybody you do business with pushes you to go to paperless billing. But Clark has a compelling reason why you might want to push back and stick with paper.
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