“Paya , a leading provider of integrated payment and commerce solutions, has partnered with UtilityBilling.com , a market-leading and rapidly-expanding subscription billing and payment platform that supplies an end-to-end solution to hundreds of utility companies.”

“ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software and solutions , today announced a strategic partnership with GOLDPoint Systems, a loan management software company offering a suite of tools for installment and specialty lenders. The companies will facilitate debit card loan payments and disbursement of loan proceeds for GOLDPoint Systems’ customers through the integration of the ACI Speedpay solution into the GOLDPoint platform.”

“The impact of the economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic has affected payments of all sorts, but perhaps none so much as consumer bill payments. Indeed, some 56% of consumers said it was harder to pay bills because they’d lost their jobs or had sustained a reduction in income, according to a second-quarter survey conducted by Aite Group, a Boston-based financial-services research firm that talked to 3,039 consumers. Aite released its report Tuesday.”

“Effective immediately, Walmart and Paymentus have formed a partnership designed to modernize how bills are paid in Walmart stores and in the Walmart app. As part of the collaboration, Walmart has joined the Paymentus Instant Payment Network™, adding another Fortune 100 company to Paymentus’ rapidly growing ecosystem. Paymentus, the industry’s most advanced bill payment platform, is trusted by businesses to power customer interaction management, bill presentment and payments through digital wallet, web, mobile, IVR, text, email, chat, voice assistant, point of sale and agent assisted channels.”

“ACI Speedpay is an integrated suite of PCI-compliant and Nacha Certified bill presentment and payment services that powers mobile, web, IVR (interactive voice response), eBill, call center and eLockbox (consolidated remittances) payment options with integrated fraud protection and flexible payment restructure plan options. The solution is utilized by thousands of customers across multiple industries, including consumer finance, government, healthcare, higher education, insurance, subscription services and utilities.”

“As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the United States, many local government agencies were forced to rapidly take their operations online. This swift transformation revealed operational weak points – especially in billing management, presentment, and payments. To help local governments identify, categorize, and address these issues, Paymentus researchers, billing specialists, and operational engineers have condensed highly complex billing challenges into an easy to grasp, highly actionable educational campaign.”

“ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, has announced the results of the 2020 ACI Speedpay Pulse study, which shows nearly 70 percent (67.4) of respondents prefer digital payment options such as website and mobile app channels to pay one-time bills. A consumer billing and payment trends and behaviors study, the ACI Speedpay Pulse report surveyed more than 3,000 adult consumers in the U.S.”

“More than 1,000 American consumers were surveyed during May 2020, and the findings revealed that 28% of Americans have been late paying a bill due to the pandemic, and 38% have reported being in collections. Over half (51%) of Americans state they have been late to pay a bill because they don’t have the money, while 33% say they have been late because they are trying to save as much money as possible. While 39% of Americans say they have not been affected financially by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting COVID-19 disease, 11% say it will take them two months to get back on their feet financially. Another 11% say it will take three months, and 10% say it will take them more than six months.”

“doxo, the all-in-one web and mobile bill pay service, today announces the launch of doxoPLUS, a new subscription service with five essential financial protections for consumers that help reduce bill pay anxiety and improve household financial health. A doxoPLUS subscription enables free all-in-one bill payment from a user’s bank account, along with the five critical financial protections for $4.99 per month. The doxoPLUS Protections help directly eliminate fees and losses that cost the average U.S. household $500 each year.”

“Transactis , a Mastercard company and leading billing and payment solutions provider, announced that it has signed an agreement with Payrailz , a digital payments company offering smarter, more engaging payment experiences to banks and credit unions. Payrailz will integrate Transactis’ electronic bill presentment and payment solution, BillerIQ, with its smart payments hub, PayWayz, providing its financial clients with an effective digital billing and payment management solution.”

“Nearly one of three consumers (27%) is past due on at least one bill and nearly 50 percent will need up to a year to catch up on bills due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from YouGov and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions .”

“ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) announced new features within its market-leading ACI Speedpay solution—assisting businesses with the ability to address growing consumer bill payment needs and over-burdened call centers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of a rapid response program, the ACI Speedpay solution offers billers both short-term and long-term options for consumers to digitally engage and manage their bill payments. Building off the solution’s existing mobile wallet offering, moBills, the new “Delay My Payment” feature provides an automated process for requesting payment deferrals based on pre-determined criteria.”

“New and enhanced features boost the bill payment experience for auto finance, consumer finance, government, insurance, mortgage and utilities industries through added digital payment options, as well as improved security, convenience and customer engagement.”

“Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY ) is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry. Today, the JHA Payment Solutions™ group has announced iPay CardPaySM, an enhancement to its consumer bill pay product that enables financial institutions to provide near-real-time card-funded bill payments using credit and debit cards as an alternative funding option.”

“For now, Google is “exploring” the full contours of what it calls “smart checking accounts,” and will have more to say on the matter later, the spokesman says. News of the move first became known through reporting by The Wall Street Journal. But for some observers, bill pay is an obvious place to start. Though they control the demand-deposit accounts that underwrite these payments, banks have struggled to control consumers’ bill-payment activity. Their share of total bill-pay volume fell from 38% to 27% between 2010 and 2016, according to the Boston-based research firm Aite Group. By contrast, billers grew their share from 62% to 73%. The offering through Google Pay could help recover some of that share.”

“Mastercard today announced that it is working with several new partners, including ConEd , to roll out Mastercard Bill Pay Exchange. Avidia Bank , Aliaswire Inc. , OSG Billing Services and Transactis will be among the first to offer Bill Pay Exchange to their customers.. Mastercard rolled out Bill Pay Exchange to make it easier for consumers to view, manage and pay telecom, utility, rent, credit card, mortgage and other personal bills without having to set up accounts with different billers, remember multiple passwords, and log in to multiple websites.”

“U.S. Bank today announced eBill Service, a simple-to-use electronic bill presentment and payment solution designed for both billers and payers. For billers, eBill Service streamlines operations, reduces billing costs and delivers innovative payment experiences. For payers, it provides numerous flexible payment options — from online and mobile to text, digital assistant, and Intelligent Voice Response (IVR).”

“Over the years, Stripe has become an established name when it comes to online payments. That’s why, they were one of the main contenders we had in mind, here at WeTransfer, when a major overhaul of our billing system was long due. This is a story about how to wear stripes, or more exactly, about how we migrated our entire billing system to Stripe.”