How to Figure Out if Electronic Payments Will Work for You?

Answer 1

If you hate paying bills through snail mail, and sometimes find yourself even forgetting to mail in the payments for bills on time, it may benefit you to allow the people you owe to debit electronic payments from your checking or savings account. Not everyone likes signing up to have electronic payments withdrawn from their account, but it does help if you need your bills paid on time (and don’t want to take the time each month to write and mail the necessary checks).

If electronic payments are to work for you, you need to make sure that you keep whatever bank account you’re having the payments withdrawn from balanced. Having electronic payments debited from your bank account will not work for you if you are not up to the responsibility of keeping your bank account balanced. If you are a responsible person who balances their checking and/or savings account often, then chances are electronic payments will work out very well for you.

If you are able to make a note of what bills are to be paid electronically every month, then it is likely that electronic payments will be something useful to you. Losing track of what bill payments you are having withdrawn electronically is a really bad idea. You do not want to overdraw your bank account because you have not checked to see which payments are going to be deducted from it on specific dates.

Electronic payments may work out better for you if the company wanting to debit them from your account is willing to offer you a discount if you do sign up for the electronic payment service. Some companies are so happy to get you to switch over to the electronic payment method that they are more than willing to deduct a few dollars from your billings if you do it. Check to see if the companies you deal with on a regular basis offer any savings if you do allow them to deduct your payments electronically.