$3.50 for each bill manager payment?

timcal6064!

:o I moved from Bill Pay to Bill Manager, set it all up and when ready to send my first payment, was notified in the last window of a $3.50 per transaction charge? Could this be right when Bill Pay was $9.95/month for a limited number of checks? HELP! If so, will move lots to auto pay and eliminate using this feature. Bummed

Sherlock

Quick Pay uses the online biller's payment service.  Your online biller may charge for this service.

If you want to continue schedule online payments from within Quicken using online payees like you did with Quicken Bill Pay, I suggest you consider using one of the more than 500 financial institutions that support online bill payment using the Direct Connect connection method. 

Otherwise, I suggest you consider most financial institutions provide free bill pay services.  

jrich75

The whole tie-in between online bills and Quick Pay creates a variety of issues.
As @Sherlock says, since Quick Pay uses the biller's payment service, any restrictions or charges they assess are passed on to the account holder.  One of my utilities has a bill payment service that wants to charge $2.50 to process the payment.  So, I've removed them as an online biller.  What I do is just use my bank bill payment system (it's not one with Direct Connect Payment) and then enter the payment manually in Quicken which then matches with my bank download.  My bank also offers online bill retrieval so I'm waiting to see if that works for this particular utility.  Another payment alternative I've used is Check Pay since uses a paper check rather than an online payment and there is no biller fee assessed.  Of course that's another hit against your limited monthly payment allotment. 

timcal6064!

I moved from Bill Pay to Bill Manager, set it all up and when ready to send my first payment, was notified in the last window of a $3.50 per transaction charge? Could this be right when Bill Pay was $9.95/month for a limited number of checks? HELP! If so, will move lots to auto pay and eliminate using this feature. Bummed

Sherlock

Quick Pay uses the online biller's payment service.  Your online biller may charge for this service.

If you want to continue schedule online payments from within Quicken using online payees like you did with Quicken Bill Pay, I suggest you consider using one of the more than 500 financial institutions that support online bill payment using the Direct Connect connection method. 

Otherwise, I suggest you consider most financial institutions provide free bill pay services.  

Ps56k2

like @Sherlock mentioned, you might consider using your own bank's online bill payment feature.  I happen to use Chase, and it works great.... directly from Quicken.

What bank do you use - and if you look at your Account List - is it Direct Connect ?

jrich75

The whole tie-in between online bills and Quick Pay creates a variety of issues.
As @Sherlock says, since Quick Pay uses the biller's payment service, any restrictions or charges they assess are passed on to the account holder.  One of my utilities has a bill payment service that wants to charge $2.50 to process the payment.  So, I've removed them as an online biller.  What I do is just use my bank bill payment system (it's not one with Direct Connect Payment) and then enter the payment manually in Quicken which then matches with my bank download.  My bank also offers online bill retrieval so I'm waiting to see if that works for this particular utility.  Another payment alternative I've used is Check Pay since uses a paper check rather than an online payment and there is no biller fee assessed.  Of course that's another hit against your limited monthly payment allotment. 

timcal6064!

Thanks all. Question answered, solution will be using my bank or Check Pay.

Ps56k2

timcal6064! said:

Thanks all. Question answered, solution will be using my bank or Check Pay.

What bank - as my Chase bill payment has both electronic AND paper check -
most have both...