Easing the Headache of Paying Bills

I do not use bill-pay services. Instead, I pay all of my bills by visiting the sites of my various creditors. As a result, I am not qualified to analyze and evaluate the various bill-pay products on the market. But I do have Mary Pilon, a Wall Street Journal reporter, so it’s all good. Indeed, Pilon tests Quicken Bill Pay, PayTrust and MyCheckFree to see how well they perform. Because I have never used these products, I was curious to see what Pilon and the Journal thought of these services. From the story: There certainly seems to be a market for such services. A 2007 survey from Harris Interactive and the Marketing Workshop found that those surveyed pay on average 11.5 bills a month. Seventy-four percent of surveyed households pay at least one bill online. And on average, respondents said they spend about two hours a month dealing with the logistics of paying bills.Pilon then sets out to review the services one at a time.