Billing news and trends

Billing Problems Send Digital Customers Back to Support
Consumer Payments // September 21, 2026

Companies have spent years making it easier for customers to pay bills online. They have made less progress helping them fix a bill when something goes wrong. Four in 10 consumers have had to contact customer support to resolve a billing problem, according to “The...

Paymentus Revenue Surges as Businesses Seek to Deliver Smooth Billing Experiences
Earnings // August 03, 2026

Bill payment solution provider Paymentus posted record revenue in the second quarter as service providers sought to secure customer loyalty by providing a satisfying billing experience, Paymentus Founder and CEO Dushyant Sharma said during a Monday (Aug. 3) earnings call. Citing findings from an upcoming...

ACI Worldwide Considers Putting Billing Division Up For Sale
Accounts Receivable // July 19, 2026

Payments provider ACI Worldwide is reportedly considering a sale of its billing business. That’s according to a report Friday (July 17) by Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The report noted that the possible sale comes amid strong demand among investors for payments...

9 Clicks Stand Between Businesses and Their Money
Digital Payments // July 16, 2026

Watch more: Summer School | SBT | Shawn Curtis Businesses can move money faster than ever. Their customers, however, may still need to navigate a maze of messages, portals, passwords and payments pages before that money starts moving. The disconnect is creating a largely invisible...

Interviews & Exclusives
Billers Overlook What Drives Customers Away

October 06, 2026
The monthly, weekly or even annual bill is among the interactions a service provider is virtually guaranteed to have with a customer again and again. Yet consumers give the experience mediocre marks. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “The Service Commerce Performance Gap,” produced in collaboration with Paymentus and published in September, surveyed 2,566 consumers in the United States […]

Billing Problems Send Digital Customers Back to Support

September 21, 2026
Companies have spent years making it easier for customers to pay bills online. They have made less progress helping them fix a bill when something goes wrong. Four in 10...

9 Clicks Stand Between Businesses and Their Money

July 16, 2026
Watch more: Summer School | SBT | Shawn Curtis Businesses can move money faster than ever. Their customers, however, may still need to navigate a maze of messages, portals, passwords...

The Premium Payment Is Becoming Insurance’s Most Valuable Touchpoint

July 16, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know | Paymentus | Rob Eberly Billing used to be where the customer relationship ended for the month. The service was delivered, the invoice went out,...

Quick Reads
Paymentus Revenue Surges as Businesses Seek to Deliver Smooth Billing Experiences

August 03, 2026
Bill payment solution provider Paymentus posted record revenue in the second quarter as service providers sought to secure customer loyalty by providing a satisfying billing experience, Paymentus Founder and CEO Dushyant Sharma said during a Monday (Aug. 3) earnings call. Citing findings from an upcoming PYMNTS Intelligence report, Sharma said customers’ billing and payment experiences […]

ACI Worldwide Considers Putting Billing Division Up For Sale

July 19, 2026
Payments provider ACI Worldwide is reportedly considering a sale of its billing business. That’s according to a report Friday (July 17) by Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter....

Stripe Completes Purchase of Billing Firm Metronome

January 15, 2026
Payments infrastructure FinTech company Stripe has completed its acquisition of billing company Metronome. “We believe the shift toward usage-based models will be a defining feature of the next decade for...

Sequence Raises $20 Million for AI-Powered Billing Automation

December 17, 2025
Revenue platform Sequence has secured $20 million in new funding. The company says its Series A round, announced Tuesday (Dec. 16), will allow it to continue what it calls the...