SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER DEBUTS ELECTRONIC BILLING/PAYMENT.CheckFree i-Solutions, a provider of interactive e-billing and e-statement software and services and part of CheckFree Corporation, and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Water Company, a subsidiary of American States Water Company, has debuted an electronic billing Electronic billing is the electronic delivery and presentation of financial statements, bills, invoices, and related information sent by a company to its customers. Electronic billing is also referred to as the following:
Using the online service, utility customers can access, review and pay their bills online. As a result, consumers can spend less of their valuable free time paying bills each month by eliminating the need to open bills, write checks, manually record the payments, stuff envelopes and locate stamps to pay the same companies month after month. With the program, Southern California Water customers can securely view their bills in minutes, review current and outstanding account balances and access complete bill information from any computer with Internet access See how to access the Internet. . With a few clicks of the mouse, consumers can schedule their bill payment from the checking, savings or money market account of their choice. The CheckFree Guarantee protects consumers who pay their bills electronically through this service against late fees and interest charges due to processing delays Processing Delay Time a selling firm takes to record receipt of a payment and deposit it. , and liability for unauthorized transactions. "Southern California Water is constantly seeking ways to make the billing process easier for our customers," said Rusty Hodges, manager, Customer Service Center. "By enabling Southern California Water customers to receive and pay their water bills online, we offer a convenient and compelling way for customers to manage this part of their financial lives more efficiently. The online bill payment initiative affirms our commitment to providing exceptional customer service." "Leading utilities, such as Southern California Water, are embracing electronic billing and payment because it offers consumers an easy way to manage their finances and increase their valuable free time," said Tom Stampiglia, president of CheckFree i-Solutions. "Southern California Water customers who enroll can enjoy the convenience of receiving not only their water bill, but also a growing number of other local and national bills online." Today Southern California Water customers can enroll for the service directly at the company's Web site at http://www.aswater.com/. Alternatively, they can sign-up at their choice of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. sites that include banks, brokerages, credit unions, Internet portals and personal financial management software. At these sites, Southern California Water customers can also receive and pay other bills from a growing number of telephone, cable, mortgage, insurance and credit card companies. At these sites, consumers can also take advantage of "pay everyone" services that enable them to make payments from their computers to anyone to whom they would write a check. This includes all bills, even day care centers, charitable deductions and money sent to individuals, such as children in college. A sample of current financial service providers making the Southern California Water bills available electronically include: * Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. at http://www.bankofamerica.com * Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
* Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. http://www.newmlol.ml.com * Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. Dean Witter Dean Witter may refer to:
* NetBank http://www.netbank.com * Quicken software and Quicken.com http://bills.quicken.com/welcome * US Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval http://www.usps.com/paymentservices/ * Yahoo! http://bills.yahoo.com Electronic bills currently available in California include national billers such as AT&T Consumer Long Distance, Sears, Countrywide Home Loans, Lowe's Consumer Credit and more. For a complete list of sites that offer CheckFree electronic billing and payment, visit http://www.checkfree.com/ebillservices About Southern California Water Company (American States Water Company) American States Water company is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, provides water service to 1 out of 30 Californians located within 75 communities throughout 10 counties in Northern, Coastal and Southern California, and to approximately 10,000 customers in the city of Fountain Hills, Arizona Fountain Hills is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. It incorporated as an independent municipality in 1989, after spending most of its history as a master planned development on the far northern end of (now neighboring) Scottsdale. and portions of Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale (O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. Scottsdale has become internationally recognized as a premier and posh tourist destination, while maintaining its own identity and culture as " . The company also distributes electricity to approximately 21,000 customers in the Big Bear recreational area of California and contracts with various municipalities in both California and Arizona to provide services to an additional 90,000 customers. American States Water company can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.aswater.com/. About CheckFree i-Solutions As a software group within CheckFree Corporation, CheckFree i-Solutions is a provider of end-to-end business-to- consumer and business-to- business solutions for e-billing and payment and e-statement delivery. CheckFree i-Solutions offers CheckFree i-Series software for e-bill and e-statement creation, i-Processing services that include payment and distribution through more than 400 financial services sites and customer care, and i-Hosting services that accommodate software hosting and full-service outsourcing. With 279 billers under contract, CheckFree i-Solutions is committed to helping billers, financial services organizations and biller bill·er n. One that bills, as: a. A clerk who prepares bills. b. A machine used in preparing bills. service providers leverage electronic bills and statements as interactive conduits to customer relationship management, marketing and customer self service applications. About CheckFree CheckFree is a provider of financial electronic commerce services and products. Founded in 1981 and celebrating its 20th year in e-commerce, CheckFree is comprised of three divisions: Electronic Commerce, Software, and Investment Services. CheckFree launched the first fully integrated electronic billing and payment solution in 1997. As of September 30, 2001, CheckFree's Electronic Commerce division enabled more than 5.6 million consumers to receive and pay bills electronically. The company has multi-year contracts with 279 of the nation's top billers to provide online billing and payment through more than 400 financial services organizations, including banks, brokerage firms, Internet portals and content sites and personal financial management (PFM) software. CheckFree Investment Services provides a broad range of investment management services to thousands of financial institutions nationwide. The division's clients manage nearly 1,200,000 portfolios totaling more than $500 billion in assets. CheckFree's Software division provides solutions through three operating units operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon : CheckFree ACH (Automated Clearing House) A system of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank that provides electronic funds transfer (EFT) between banks. It is used for all kinds of fund transfer transactions, including direct deposit of paychecks and monthly debits for routine payments to Solutions, CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions(CFACS CFACS CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions ), and CheckFree i-Solutions. CheckFree i-Solutions is a provider of e-billing and e-statement software and services for both business- to-consumer and business-to-business applications, with more billers as clients than all of its competitors have combined. CheckFree ACH Solutions provides software and services that are used to process more than two-thirds of the nation's six billion Automated Clearing House See ACH. payments, while CFACS provides reconciliation and compliance software and services to more than 400 organizations in the banking, brokerage, utility, retail, insurance and credit card industries, among others. CheckFree can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.checkfree.com/. For more information, call 678/375-1278. |
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