A lot of services with online billing refuse to send bills by e-mail, instead requiring users to log into their websites.
No doubt the companies would justify this by saying e-mail isn't secure enough. The side-effect that it'll stop many users bothering to look at their bill isn't why they do it at all, no sir.
I've been considering making a web scraper that goes to the phone company, electricity company, gas company, broadband company, electronic payslips, bank, stockbroker, AWS and so on; logs in with my credentials; downloads the PDF (or html) statements; and sends them by e-mail.
Of course, such a web scraper would need my online banking credentials, so I'm not in the market for a software-as-a-service offering.
I started working on a tool like this over the weekend to pull down my bills, and pay the balance.
I think there is a market for something like Mint for bill paying - it's a it's a bit of a pain to remember when I have to pay all of my bills each month, and make sure to go through each one, and pay the balance on time.
No doubt the companies would justify this by saying e-mail isn't secure enough. The side-effect that it'll stop many users bothering to look at their bill isn't why they do it at all, no sir.
I've been considering making a web scraper that goes to the phone company, electricity company, gas company, broadband company, electronic payslips, bank, stockbroker, AWS and so on; logs in with my credentials; downloads the PDF (or html) statements; and sends them by e-mail.
Of course, such a web scraper would need my online banking credentials, so I'm not in the market for a software-as-a-service offering.