Mint Bills
{{Short description|Defunct online payment application}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Check
| type = Private
| foundation = 2007
| industry = Personal finance, Software
| location = Palo Alto, California
| area_served = United States, Canada
| products = Mobile application, Rich Internet application
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.Check.me/}}
}}
Mint Bills, formerly Check{{cite news|work=Bank Innovation|url=https://bankinnovation.net/2014/12/mint-finally-adds-bill-pay-in-a-separate-app/|title=Mint Finally Adds Bill Pay — in a Separate App|date=December 17, 2014|author=Ryan, Philip|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226163733/https://bankinnovation.net/2014/12/mint-finally-adds-bill-pay-in-a-separate-app/|archivedate=26 December 2014}} and before that Pageonce,{{cite news|work=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2013/05/06/pageonce-changes-its-name-and-gets-ready-for-the-mobile-payments-revolution/|date=May 6, 2013|author=Taulli, Tom|title=Pageonce changes its name and gets ready for the mobile payments revolution}} was a website and mobile banking application developed by Check, Inc.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} Mint Bills utilized proprietary account aggregation technology for secure payment technologies in its mobile applications; its primary service allowed users to pay bills and track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions and balances through the Mint Bills website or mobile apps for its Android and iOS platforms. Mint Bills was bought by Intuit in 2014 and integrated into Mint.com in March 2017. The Mint.com bill payment service was then discontinued on June 30, 2018.{{Cite web | url=https://help.mint.com/Tracking-Your-Bills/1060777521/Mint-bill-pay-is-no-longer-supported.htm | title=Mint bill pay is no longer supported | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217223943/https://help.mint.com/Tracking-Your-Bills/1060777521/Mint-bill-pay-is-no-longer-supported.htm | archive-date=2022-02-17}}
Check, Inc.
Check, Inc., which developed the original Pageonce program later renamed Check, was founded in May 2007{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/one-stop-account-manager-pageonce-launches/|date=June 2, 2008|work=TechCrunch|title=One-stop account manager Pageonce launches}} and had offices in Palo Alto, CA and in Israel. Check raised $1.5M in capital investment from Liron Petrushka and Bobby Lent in January 2008,{{cite news|url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/01/09/pageonce-raises-15m-for-online-personal-assistant/|work=VentureBeat|date=January 9, 2008|title=Pageonce raises $15 million for online personal assistant}} and a further $6.5M from Pitango Venture Capital in December 2009.{{cite news|work=The New York Times|url=http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/pageonce-lands-65-million/|date=December 10, 2009|title=Pageonce lands $65 million}}
Intuit
In May 2014, Intuit agreed to purchase Check for $360 million; the purchase was expected to occur before July 31, 2014.{{cite news|work=The Wall Street Journal| url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304163604579532643706135368|title=Intuit agreed to purchase Check for $360 million}} In December 2014, the transition was completed, and new users installed Mint Bills, while installed Check apps updated automatically to Mint Bills.{{cite news|author=Perez, Holly|url=http://investors.intuit.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2014/Mint-Streamlines-Bill-Paying-With-New-Mint-Bills/default.aspx|work=Intuit Investors Press Release|title= Mint Streamlines Bill-Paying With New Mint Bills|date=December 16, 2014}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/12/mint-bills-app/ | author=Bonnington, Christina |date=December 16, 2014|title= Mint's Latest App Helps You Pay Every Bill on Time}}
In December 2016, Mint began integrating bill tracking payment and functionality into Mint.com and the Mint app.{{cite web|title=Mint app updated with bill tracking and payment|author=Whitwam, Ryan|date=December 15, 2016|website=Android Police|url=http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/15/mint-app-updated-bill-tracking-payment/}} In January 2017, users were notified by email and via notices in their apps that Mint Bills would go away on 26 Mar 2017, and its functionality integrated with Mint.{{cite web|website=Mint.com|url=https://www.mint.com/html/movetomint/|title=Move to Mint|date=January 2017}} The Mint.com bill payment service was discontinued on June 30, 2018.
References
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External links
- {{URL|https://check.me/}}, now redirected to Mint.com
- {{cite web|url=https://www.mint.com/how-mint-bills-works |website=Mint.com|title=How Mint Bills works}}
Category:Account aggregation providers