The continuing growth of eBill is both impressive and unrelenting. In 2021, a new record of 50 million eBill transactions was reached, corresponding to an increase of over 25% when compared with the previous year. More than 4,000 well-known companies already send their invoices via eBill, delivering them directly into the online banking platforms of their customers. With around 2.5 million users, eBill now reaches a good half of all Swiss households. Further innovations will be launching in 2022.
Digital invoicing is on the rise and enjoying increasing popularity, with around 100 Swiss banks currently offering eBill to their customers. Paying an invoice now requires only a single click in online banking, or it can even be fully automated if desired. This means that incoming invoices are never lost and can be retrieved at any time via online banking: eBill makes it all simple, fast, secure and convenient.
Business customers are also benefitting from these same advantages. They, too, are increasingly switching their invoicing to eBill. All of the leading Swiss-based telecommunications providers, health insurers, energy suppliers, transportation companies, public administrations and credit card issuers already use eBill. And more providers are joining us every month.
This year, we have some further impelling eBill innovations in the pipeline. For example, companies will be able to not only send invoices via eBill with their own business software, but also to receive and process them directly without any media discontinuity. This will create a significant efficiency advantage over the conventional methods – especially for SMEs.
As of fall 2022, foundations and donation organizations will be able to use eBill to collect their donations, in a way that is thoroughly transparent, secure and convenient for their donors. This will form another important step towards the full digitalization of payment processing in Switzerland.
You can find more information about eBill at: www.eBill.ch www.einfach-zahlen.ch
