Ian S
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Except for all the other ways.
I use autopay for bills that are pretty much the same every month, like cell phone, insurance, and cable/internet.
Any bill that varies month to month (credit cards, electric, etc.) and yearly or semi annual bills (taxes, some of my insurance policies) I prefer to see before I pay, so I pay them electronically, but manually. If I didn't see all the credit card bills every month I wouldn't know what to bitch to/at my wife about.
I also pay everything that I can with my rewards credit cards. When you pay many thousands of dollars of bills per year with a rewards card, you build up the rewards points pretty fast. The only exceptions are the bills with a fee for credit cards. I pay those electronically from my bank account.
I get every bill paperless if possible, since then I have an electronic copy, and if I want to print it out, a paper copy. I don't print many anymore, just keep them on my hard drive and backed up to my two backup hard drives.
I'm with you. I pay most things electronically these days but the really varying stuff, I don't have on autopay. It forces me to go to the website and actually check on for example, the charges on my credit card. Plus it's a good time to download the statement. I have those non-autopay accounts in a small spreadsheet grouped into the three days each month that I actually arrange to pay them. Set up for the 8th, 18th, and 28th so it's easy to remember. Then I have columns for the twelve months of the year and I can check off the various payments when I make them. I could probably have a reminder for each of the three "pay days" on my cell phone but I've been doing it this way for so long I rarely if ever forget.
I don't pay for the bill pay feature - most everything I pay electronically is arranged from the payee's website. Of course, when possible, I pay by a rewards credit card rather than my bank account.