Billtrust Reveals QR Code-Based Billing Option

Billing service Billtrust has announced that consumers and businesses can now pay their bills online by scanning QR codes.

Billtrust imprints QR codes on outbound billing documents, allowing them to be scanned with smartphones to gain access to a mobile web page with payment capabilities, the company said in a press release.

“QR codes printed on bill statements can provide an easy and convenient bridge for traditional paper customers to make electronic payments,” commented Robert Unger, AAP, Senior Director, NACHA. “The QR Encoding for bill Payment Guidelines represent an industry effort to standardize the experience for customers, providing reliability and certainty as well for billers, financial institutions and service providers that enable consumer bill payment applications.”