Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
billQ: Bill Tracking Application
Category: Showcase
Seen Creative has released a new free product billQ:
The easiest way to keep track of your bills. Our web application helps you to schedule and manage bills.
The application feels 37 Signals-esque in its simplicity and nice use of Ajax (without overuse).
4 rating from 32 votes
This is a great service. I’ve been using it since the beta and it’s been immensely useful. This is an essential tool if you’re living with roommates.
This has a bunch of great extra features that help my roommate and I out like SMS text reminders. The ability to have multiple groups is helpful as well. Clean, simple, useful.
I don’t really understand the point of this if it can’t automatically fetch bill amounts from service providers and let you schedule payments directly from the interface, like MyCheckFree or something like that. I guess I’m not the target market. I do have roommates though. Rent is the only recurrent bill that has a fixed amount every time, and I don’t really need a web application to remember how to divide by 3.
I was happy to see you don’t have to click any confirmation link in an email before you can use the service. It sure looked like you were going to, though.
Hey Evan,
This definitely isn’t for everyone. I mean, I know tons of people who do just fine using to-do lists or post-it notes to keep track of this stuff. This worked for us, and seems to be helping others as well.
Ultimately, we would love to have billQ link up and fetch bills or help you actually pay them, but for now, it’s really just a reminder system. Maybe in the near future. And just because your utilities aren’t always the same, doesn’t mean you can’t put in a scheduled bill with an estimate that you can edit when you find out the exact amount.
We definitely wanted to make the registration as easy as possible. Get people to see how easy it is to use, instead of all the headaches typical of signups.
Looks interesting but the name “bilk you” is a little off-putting
:)
Any chance we could get the source for integration in our own web applications? :-p Pretty please!
Cool site. Haven’t seen this yet (sorry if its alreadya feature), would be cool if you could ‘autosplit’ your bills. So if you had a $20 bill and 5 people in a group, it would default to $4 each.
@Matt: Maybe in a bit we’ll release an API, or at least an export to XML, but for now there’s RSS and iCalendar exports to grab the data.
@Nathan: That’s exact what billQ’s made to do. Just create a group, invite your roommates and add your bills (You can even put in %’s or keywords like ‘1/5′ or ‘one fifth’).
you’ll have to at least add support for HTTPS if you’re going to expect serious users to enter any personal data in
4. Does billQ use HTTPS?
Because billQ is a free service, we do not offer HTTPS or HTTP over SSL at this time.
Wwwooow… must have taken a week to build this. Very nifty, using awesome forms, you definately see that this has taken alot of time to build ….
.. :”)
I’ll rather add my one-time or recurring bills to my internet bank so that they can be paid automaticly when they are due.
Good servicço if really for wanting can also send me a money.
Lol ;)
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[...] Today’s presentations covered everything from Building A Web Application in Ruby to Graphical Password Encryption. Zack and Nick from Seen Creative showcased their new web application billQ. billQ a nifty app for keeping track of your bills, and has been getting a lot of buzz lately from sites like Lifehacker and Ajaxian. [...]