My new service is launched.

**Shawn** · 10-26-2005, 05:38 PM

TrackPayments is now launched.

"TrackPayments allows individuals to keep track of when upcoming bills and payments are due. Users can also choose to receive e-mail notifications when bills are due."

Keep in mind, this isn't a service for web savvy people with online bill paying for every bill. Most people have at least a few bills that they still pay through offline means, and, this service targets them.

More services to be launched soon.

**Kyle** · 10-26-2005, 06:32 PM

Nice domain...I wouldn't use the service but I'm suprised this domain was available.

**BoardTracker** · 10-26-2005, 07:01 PM

Congratulations and good luck.
Just gave it a try, so some feedback..
Nice look. Easy signup process.
Tried to create a payment and it told me that the payee name is not legal. This is because I used "&". My suggestion. Do not limit people unless it is necessary or makes much sense (which is not true in this case if you ask me).
The big "View Schedule" link (going to tracking.php) says "Thanks for creating an account with us...". Which is ok for the first time you enter the account, but for sequential visits, while no payment schedules were set yet, it might be better to say "welcome, you have not created any payment items yet" (or something of that sort)

Overall nice work.
Best of luck with it.

**Shawn** · 10-26-2005, 07:10 PM

I agree, fixed.

**Cutter** · 10-26-2005, 09:15 PM

Very nice! How are you promoting it?

**eMEraLdwPn** · 10-26-2005, 11:35 PM

in the demo, it looks like you can actually change the data, i don't know if you want that or not. also, when i edited the price of a bill, it said "deleting" in the top left corner

**jonnyhilfiger** · 10-27-2005, 02:09 AM

Nice idea in principal but what happens when your server is down for a few hours/days and people are then late paying their bills because they didn't get their reminders, and subsequently CC card fines or leccy cut off for instance. Leaves a possibility of being sued I would think, have you looked into that angle? A disclaimer may cover you but you may need legal advice.

Cheers, John

**Shawn** · 10-27-2005, 08:15 AM

I've already thought about that. I have a temporary server at a different hosting company that I'll transfer the site to if the server it's currently on ever goes down.

**Shawn** · 10-27-2005, 08:17 AM

EmeraldPawn, yes, I realize people can change the bills in the demo. That's what I want.

I have a cronjob setup to clear whatever data they change within 1 minute of logging out of the demo.

**MarkB** · 10-27-2005, 08:21 AM

Shawn, cool idea - and great looking site!

However, it doesn't seem to allow '£' symbols. This may be as designed, but thought it worth mentioning anyway.

**Shawn** · 10-27-2005, 08:24 AM

I'll fix this, Mark. Thanks.

**MarkB** · 10-27-2005, 12:48 PM

As soon as you do, I'm signing up

**Chris** · 10-28-2005, 06:50 AM

So people need to enter their bills and the duedates and then you send reminders? (I'm assuming you dont automatically interface with billers and whatnot to find that information out).

**MarkB** · 10-28-2005, 07:13 AM

Yeah, looks like they just use it as a simple reminder service:

PAY BILL - $1000 - OCT 29 etc

**aj8** · 10-28-2005, 07:56 AM

Nice looking site.. how are you planning to make money out of it though?

One suggestion would be to offer paid for SMS reminders, texted to their mobile phone on the morning each bill is due... Maybe charge $5 a month or something for a maximum of one reminder each day... That's 16c per text, assuming they make use of all of them.. Should be possibly to do that profitably.