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Check your bank’s list of predetermined electronic payees before you enter your own. All you have to do is enter your account number and you’re ready to use that payee. For payees that don’t appear on the bank’s list, such as individuals,contractors, or others that you pay regularly, you must fill in the person’s name, address, and your account number, if any, on the bank’s bill payment system.

The bank will always have to cut a paper check and mail it to these personal payees. Once you have your list of payees entered into the computer, your bill-paying chores become much easier. Assemble your bills before you go online, noting the amount to be paid to each payee and the date the payment should be made. For electronic payments, you can initiate the payment only a day or two before it is due, while payments made by check through the mail should be sent at least a week ahead of time. Once you are connected to the bank’s computer, you just have to enter the amount due each payee and the date of the payment and you’re done! No checks to write, no envelopes to stuff, no stamps to lick, no trips to the post office! Even when you are out of town or thinking about other more important things, your bills are being paid reliably.