How does Bill Pay Service work?
There are two basic steps involved in using Bill Pay Service to make online payments: • Set up your payees. • Schedule payments. When you first begin using the service, set up your payee list by adding the payees to whom you want to make payments. Some payees can also send electronic bills (e-bills). You only need to add each payee once. When you make a payment, you specify the date that you want the payee to receive the payment. The earliest available payment date is four business days from today. Bill Pay Service determines whether a payment is sent electronically or by check, based on whether the payee accepts electronic payments and other guidelines. If you are a Level 3 User, you can initiate a payment, which must then be approved by a user of higher authority before the payment can be scheduled and issued. After a payment is scheduled, it appears as Scheduled in Payment Activity. After the payment is processed, the status changes to Processed. The payee receives your payment on t
To pay your bills online, you simply add the companies and people you want to pay. We use this information to make the payments for your bills. After you add your bills, you can go to the Payment Center. The Pay Bills section lists all of the bills you’ve added in Bill Pay Service. To pay a bill, you simply enter a payment amount and the date when you want the company or person to receive your payment. You can also select this date from the calendar. Tip: When you enter an amount, Bill Pay Service automatically displays the earliest date you can select for the company or person to receive the payment in the Pay Date box. You can either accept this date or change it to a later one. You can pay as many bills as you want at the same time from the Payment Center. After you pay a bill, it may move to either the Pending Payments section or the Recent Payments section of the Payment Center. • The Pending Payments section provides a quick summary of the payments that have not been processed ye
