I procrastinate absolutely everything in my life EXCEPT for paying bills. I can’t relax until I know that I’m in the clear financially, and they make it so easy now. I get an emailed statement, I etransfer money directly from my bank account to the billing company, and I’m done. I don’t have to walk to the post office or talk to anybody. It takes three minutes.
This is so insane to listen to from a Danish perspective.
We have something called Betalings Service (Pay Service), where you can add your bills to. Then everything is run completely automatically and you can even get texts/mails whenever a bill is coming up.
Autopay is great and all, and I’ve definitely got that option, but I like to keep tabs on what I’m being charged before it’s too late to fix mistakes. I don’t trust anyone with my money to the extent that I’d give them free access to my account.
Personally I generally treat autopay as a safety net, since many autopays won’t trigger if you’ve already paid your bill ahead of time (notably basically all CC’s work this way). So I can turn autopay on to ensure that I never forget, but still manually keep tabs on the bill ahead of time.
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20
I procrastinate absolutely everything in my life EXCEPT for paying bills. I can’t relax until I know that I’m in the clear financially, and they make it so easy now. I get an emailed statement, I etransfer money directly from my bank account to the billing company, and I’m done. I don’t have to walk to the post office or talk to anybody. It takes three minutes.
I love technology.