We're proud to announce the release of a new Bill Tracker tool to our website. The Bill Tracker allows you to enter all monthly bills into the site. When you've paid one of the bills, you can let the system know and we'll keep track of when you last paid and for how much.
Premium members will also be able to view reports on their bill payments over time. This way you can see if you're paying more or less as time goes on for a specific bill. It's a great way to save money by seeing if you can lower your monthly bills.
We've also tied the Bill Tracker into the Reminders / Recurring Transactions tool. When you add a recurring transaction, you can identify it as being a Bill. When that recurring transaction gets added to the site, we'll update your bill tracker with the date and amount paid.
You can find the Bill Tracker by clicking on Tools at the top of the page and then click on Bill Tracker. We've also added a Dashboard Gadget that lets you see your bills and when they were last paid.
We hope you will take advantage of this new tool and use it in your arsenal to help manage your finances.
Some screenshots:
Thanks!!!
my bills get taken out of a checking account, which I usually import from csv. can I mark one of those transactions as being the bill payment?
Also, when I add a recurring transaction, I dont see the option to mark as a bill, is already implemented (as you comment in the post)?
Thanks in advance!!!!
You can see a screenshot here: https://www.clearcheckbook.com/images/blog/bill_tracker_reminders.png
Nice feature but also have some bills paid every two weeks each month and every two months.
One more thing with the Tracker is that if you allow for a bill that is due on a given date that does NOT post automatically as I suggested earlier, then an overdue indicator might be a help in prioritizing unpaid bills.
Other folks may get all of their bills paid on time, but I seem to often be running near the hairy edge...
This is a great feature. Is it not possible to edit the amount in the bill tracker page?
What I have done is setup all me recurring transations with a budget amount for the associated bills. Then I enter them all at one time depending on their pay date. For example, I have a list of bills due to be paid from my mid-month pay. So about the 10th of each month I enter all my recurring transactions for the 15th. Then I update the actual payment amount in the register. So the electric bill is budgeted for $350/month. This month it was only $310 so I make the adjustment in the register. How do this get tied to the bill tracker?
Thank you,
Fred
Or Just have them automatically sorted by date.
Right now mine are in the following order:
3/5/2011
3/1/2011
3/5/2011
3/1/2011
3/1/2011
2/10/2011
If they are in order it is simple to glance at the widget and see what bill is coming up next.
It's working fine for us. When you enter the amount, just make sure you're not putting $ sign or , (thousand separators) in the number and see if that fixes your problem.
I think that Bill Tracker MIGHT be what I want, but does that mean I have to RE-ENTER all my bills (I don't see any way to select it as a bill in existing or new reminders with transactions)?
If I have to re-enter them, is there a way to print a report of the existing Reminders/Transactions?
Is there a way to Export/Import existing reminders/transactions in case Bill Tracker doesn't work out and I want to go back?