Why Are We Still Writing Cheques?
I received an invoice for a service I recently received. Instead of logging into my bank account and clicking “pay invoice”, typing in an invoice number, and receiving a virtual canceled cheque, I need to:
- find my chequebook
- write a cheque
- address an envelope
- find a stamp
- put the darn thing in the mail
Will someone please build a solution where any business large or small can issue an invoice, and if I choose to pay it online rather than mail a cheque, I can do so without the intermediaries getting more than the price of a stamp, and more importantly it must take less time than writing and mailing a cheque. Think of the time savings. Oh yeah, and also I complain about the carbon footprint of the existing system of payments using the postal system, because no argument is complete these days without mentioning the carbon footprint.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Here’s a listing of 7 online invoicing services:
http://freelanceswitch.com/money/7-online-invoicing-apps-for-freelancers/
Not sure if these services handle electronic payment as well, but PayPal certainly does:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_home-merchant