AT&T And Intuit Enable Consumers to View and Pay Their AT&T Bills Online - Company Business and Marketing

Using Intuit's online billing service in Quicken and on Quicken.com, AT&T residential long distance customers are now able to view a summary of their bill and simply click to download the bill amount and due date into Quicken or click to pay the bill through Quicken.com. Quicken and Quicken.com bill summaries provide users with a link to AT&T's online billing site, where the entire AT&T bill can be reviewed in detail. Users can then review previous AT&T bills, sort their calls, request credit for questionable calls, use AT&T Anywho to find information on calls, update their AT&T account, order new services and submit e-mail inquiries to customer service - all from the comfort of their computers.

"More and more of our customers are visiting att.com and opting to do business with us electronically," said Michael Tempora, vice president of AT&T consumer billing strategy. "They like the control, flexibility and cost savings of online billing and online customer service. By offering bills online through Quicken and Quicken.com, together we provide an attractive alternative to sitting down and writing out bills every month."

Intuit's Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment Service Intuit's new EBPP service is the first Web-based bill presentment and payment service to provide a central point of access for consumers to view, track and pay all their bills from the same site they use to manage the rest of their financial lives. Using this service, consumers can also pay anyone in the U.S. and will soon be able to view any of their other bills online, whether they originate as electronic or "hard copy" paper bills.

Intuit has been supporting online bill payment and presentment through Quicken since 1997 and last year launched its comprehensive Web-based service on Quicken.com and will soon offer it on other portals. Intuit's bill payment and presentment service is part of My Accounts, a new suite of services that allows consumers to view and manage their finances anywhere using a Web browser. My Accounts is a personalized financial "dashboard" that allows consumers to view and pay all their bills, manage multiple investment portfolios and view credit card and bank account balances -- all from a single Web site.

In addition to the AT&T residential long distance bill, Quicken and Quicken.com customers can "pay everyone" including all monthly bills through services provided by participating financial institutions and payment providers including CheckFree. Intuit is a participant in the CheckFree Guarantee Program that limits consumer liability and protects against unauthorized transactions or processing delays. Intuit offers electronic bill presentment and bill payment services through Quicken.com and other portals pursuant to a license agreement between Intuit Inc. and a joint venture company in which Intuit is a participant.

Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ:INTU) is the leader in e-finance, including financial software and Web-based financial services for consumers and small businesses. Intuit develops and markets QuickBooks, the most popular small business accounting software; Quicken, the leading personal finance software; and TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software. An innovator in delivering Web-based financial tools, Intuit is the leading provider of online tax preparation and filing and online mortgages. Intuit is also breaking new ground as a leader in online bill presentment and payment, and in the delivery of its QuickBooks Internet Gateway platform of connected e-services for small businesses.