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To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1573)	2/8/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: TLindt	Respond to of 8545

Brooks My Comments Capitalized....Quicken98 Billing Help. >>>Only Florida Power & Light is currently online with Q98. The 100-plus billers mentioned in an earlier post are those that MAY come on in the future. That's the way I saw it, until I read the help file. I believe they are participating. Simply by reading the help file text. BTW their are 119 vs the 114 of last Week. Unless they change the text of the Help File I'm going on what I read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Personal Info To change personal information: 1.Click Personal Info. Quicken displays your personal information that is currently on file. 2.Enter your changes. 3.When you're finished, click Done. The information you submit is sent to the Intuit online billing service. Note that information is not sent to individual billers, so you must notify each biller directly of the changes you made. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Account Info If you need to add a new biller, add another account for an existing biller, or request that a biller be added who is not currently participating in the online billing service, click Account Info. To add an additional account number for an existing biller: 1.If necessary, scroll through the biller list until you find the biller for whom you want to add an additional account number. 2.Click Add Account. Quicken adds a new entry for the selected biller. 3.Enter the new account number, being careful to use exactly the same format as the one shown below the entry field. 4.Click Done. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To delete an existing account number: 1.If necessary, scroll through the biller list until you find the biller for whom you want to delete an account number. 2.Click Remove Account. 3.Click Done. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To add an additional biller: 1.Click Add Biller. Quicken moves to the online biller list. 2.If necessary, select a business type. You may want to select a business type to shorten the list of billers. 3.Select a biller from the Available Online Billers list. 4.Click Add. 5.Click the right arrow. Quicken adds the biller to your biller list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To request that a biller be added to the list of participating billers: You may receive bills from businesses that do not deliver bills online through Quicken. You can select any business listed here, and Intuit will let them know that you would like them to participate. 1.Click Add Biller Request. 2.If necessary, select a business type. You may want to select a business type to shorten the list of billers. 3.Select a biller from the Businesses list. 4.Click Add. 5.If you choose, select the "Send me e-mail..." check box to receive a message when any of the selected businesses start providing online billing. [KEY WORD IS WHEN, THEY COULD HAVE USED 'IF'] 6.Click Done. ÿÿ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Company Links To learn more about a participating biller: [THIS IS KEY 'TO LEARN MORE ABOUT A PARTICIPATING BILLER]ÿÿ 1.Click Company Links. The billing list changes to a list of participating companies. [AGAIN PARTICIPATING COMPANIES, now 119 vs 114 last week] 2.Click the company name you'd like to learn more about. 3.Quicken displays the home page for the selected company. 4.When you're finished, click Online Billing Home Page to return to the online billing home page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Billing List The online billing window is divided into two separate areas: To pay a bill: 1.Review the bill detail by clicking the biller's name. Quicken displays detailed information about the currently selected bill. Note: The bill detail information is not stored in Quicken. If you'd like to keep a permanent record of the detailed information you must print the bill before you copy it into your Quicken register. Click Print at the top of the online billing window. 2.Select the check box next to the biller. ] 3.Click Enter In Register Quicken transfers the selected bills from the billing list to your Quicken register. 4.If necessary, click Online Billing Home Page to return to the online billing home page. I guess we could argue this point......but the only ones that knows is Intuit, Checkfree, and MSFDC, and the 119 Billers but they aint talking.

To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1573)	2/8/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: chirodoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

<<<<<I still think the way e-bill can and should work best is for banks to consolidate ALL a customer's bills on a single website .........can we convince ibm, ckfr, and the big banks to talk to the popular sites like yhoo, xcit, nscp, aol, mspg, elnk, etc. and set up a "pay bills" button???? ..god, that would be a brilliant and inexpensive way to end run around msft. .......pray that they are talking about it now--before it is too late and the msft button is everywhere.

To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1573)	2/8/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: TLindt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8545

>>>The letter says: "...a summary of your bill will be available in Quicken. By selecting the bill summary, you will be connected to the web site of your biller where you can review details of you bill." Brooks this is exactly what I was hoping for. You are most likely going to see billing date, amount due, due date. ie a summary. If your Phone Bill comes threw in summary from, you can just transfer the the bill to the register and pay it. Now if you need a copy of the bill for your records, who you called, ect.... You have to go to the billers site to get the detail. Really that's none of Intuits business anyway to have your bill detail on their server. I like the way it works. Besides if those Billers did send all the detail downline to Intuit, there probably ain't a server out there big enough to catch it all.......IMHO. Again I'm just guessing..............And maybe that's what Pete Kight was talking about.....MSFDC want's the information on their servers off Site? Guessing again.

To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1573)	2/9/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Kurt Peterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8545

Brooks: Q98 is in beta for e-bill right now, and FPL is the only biller presenting through Q98. Going forward, you should have all billers available to you, probably Mar/Apr. The part about having to go to each billers site for detail is vague, it should probably read "the biller's or it's consolidator's site", because that is what would actually happen behind the scenes. If you think about how you might use it when you have 3-4 bills coming in, Q98 will aggregate the summaries for you, and in the case of utility bills and small dollar amount bills, you will probably just pay them. For larger bills like a charge card you will click on "get detail" and it be displayed for you, whether it is on the biller's server, CKFR's, JITS's or wherever. That is no different than if your bank was doing it for you. Your bank would aggregate the bill summaries, and if wanted to see the detail it would go to wherever the detail is, not necessarily the bank's site. The billers are pretty sensitive about the detail data. Some of them insist on keeping it on an inhouse server, for a number of reasons. Others will allow a consolidator such as CKFR to hold it. BTW, when MSFDC goes to a biller, they do not give them the option of where the detail data goes. It has to go to a central MSFDC site. This is one of CKFR's biggest advantages.