Yesterday, CNET covered our intent to move to a new pricing model for bill pay – PageOnce drops subscription fee. We’re super excited about this move and think it’s a significant step forward in bringing bill pay to more Pageonce users.

What’s happening?

Today, we offer bill pay through Pageonce Gold – a $4.99 subscription service. Next month, we plan to discontinue the Gold service and replace it with pay-as-you-go pricing. This means we’ll include a per transaction price for each payment rather than a monthly subscription price for all-you-can-eat payments. We’re still determining the exact per transaction price.

Why?

We’re making this change because we want more users to have access to bill pay. We want to give users the ability to try the service without a commitment. The $4.99 monthly price was too big a barrier. We tested transaction pricing with about 15,000 users, who overwhelmingly chose transaction pricing over monthly subscription pricing.

What does it mean?

Current Gold users on Android can remain Gold for as long as they’d like or can switch to per transaction pricing. All other Gold features – Refresh All Accounts, No Banners Ads, Phone Support – will continue for Gold users even if they decide to move to per transaction pricing. Non-Gold users will now have access to bill pay without the monthly commitment.

We are finalizing the details with Apple for current Gold users on iOS. More to come here.

Thanks for your continued support.

Best,

Guy

Guy Goldstein, CEO and Founder, Pageonce

Will the real Ivan Santana please stand up?

Most people don’t think about identity theft until it happens to them. Unfortunately, I had to learn about identity theft the hard way. After several bouts with credit card fraud, I’ve learned how to protect myself and would like to share these lessons with you.

Modern identity theft schemes range from viruses that infect your computer and steal your data to criminals that dig through your trash looking for personal information.  In 2011 identity fraud increased by 13 percent, with more than 11.6 million identity fraud victims in the United States, according to 2012 Javelin Strategy & Research report.

How do I protect myself from identity theft?

The good news is that a little awareness goes a long way in protecting yourself. You can significantly reduce your risk by taking some simple steps. Read more »

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Now that your taxes are filed, it’s a perfect time to organize your finances. Spring cleaning is not just for houses, closets or garages, your money could use some purging too.

Here are three easy tips to get started:

1. Simplify your finances. Take advantage of technology to streamline your financial life. Set up online bill pay, track accounts online, and reduce the stress of managing finances. Consolidate credit cards and bank accounts, and get rid of paper clutter with online bill pay. If you have a smartphone or tablet, use it as a financial tool that gives you remote control anytime, anywhere.

2. Tame debt and improve credit. Read more »

As everyone carries around more intelligent devices, how will that affect the future of finance, payments, and consumer behavior?

The Mobile panel at The Future of Money & Technology Summit will explore this topic.

Pageonce COO Steve Schultz joins the panel to bring our perspective into the mix.

WHEN: Monday, April 23 at 10:45 am

WHERE: Hotel Kabuki San Francisco, CA

WHO:

• Tom Krazit, GigaOM (moderator)
• Ray Ramillosa, Boku
• Chris Battles, Intuit
• Steve Schultz, Pageonce
• Vince Kadar, Telepin

If you’d like to attend, you can get a 20% discount on your ticket here.

Where do you see the future of money and tech heading? 

For a week in March, downtown Austin is abuzz with the creative energy of the tech industry — a hotbed for emerging technologies that brings together the brightest minds for exchanging ideas, networking, and yes, parties!

At SXSW Interactive, Pageonce assembled three companies paving the way for the mobile wallet, and invited senior editor Lauren Goode from AllThingsD to moderate our panel “From Leather to Smartphone: The Wallet Evolves.”

Joined by esteemed colleagues Devaraj Southworth from Serve by American Express and Kingsborough from PayPal, Pageonce COO Steve Schultz spoke about The Wallet of the Future. Read more »