Brox,

When you use MSN Bill Pay the money comes out when the check clears
your bank. In all other cases it will depend on your FI's bill pay
policy. I don't use Fifth Third, but I would suspect they, like many
others, take the money out of your account on the day you specify.

Regards,
JB

Brox wrote:
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Brox,

When you use MSN Bill Pay the money comes out when the check clears
your bank. In all other cases it will depend on your FI's bill pay
policy. I don't use Fifth Third, but I would suspect they, like many
others, take the money out of your account on the day you specify.

Regards,
JB

Brox wrote:
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My problem is more with the scheduled bills and deposits screen - it is
telling me that an "electronic payment must be sent within x days". That
statement is misleading - with MSN Bill Pay, it was accurate in telling me
that I had x days to send off a payment in order for it to be received by the
due date. With Fifth Third, that x days IS the due date of the bill, which
does not give any lead time to actually get the payment to them! I hope I'm
being clear here....anyways, I can simply follow your advice and move back a
week, but I wish the scheduled bills and deposits screen would have the
correct lead time for electronic payments.

Maybe my only solution is to actually bump back the due dates on bills back
a week - but that just isn't the way I had to do it with MSN Bill Pay. Ack!

-Tod

Hopefully, I understand your comment. I also use 5/3 for bill pay and I
simply schedule the payment with the bank to be made a week before the due
date. I haven't had any problems with the payments not getting to the payee
by the due date.

"Brox" wrote:

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Ok - I've searched and searched for this answer - no avail.

I used MS Bill Pay service for months and it would schedule my payments with
a due date that would ensure payment was RECEIVED on the date I declared.

I dropped MS Bill Pay when I switched to Fifth Third (www.53.com) bank -
they support direct downloads of statements, and free bill pay.

Now when I schedule a payment, the date has now become the day that my bank
will process the payment and get it sent to the party - which could be
received up to 5+ days later! Ack! Is there somewhere where I can modify
this date lead time, to ensure payment is received on time?

Thank for the info!