Melbourne, Australia 5^th June 2018 – Award winning financial wealth management platform myprosperity and bill payment automation company Gobbill today announced a commercial alliance.

The partnership will see Gobbill offer a version of its digital service through the myprosperity platform, providing seamless bill payment and management services to households currently using the platform in Australia and overseas.

CEO of myprosperity, Chris Ridd, said the deal would create value for its customers, saving time and money on bill payments, as well as providing protection against an increasing number of bill scams.

“With myprosperity we are creating an integrated platform where advisers and their clients can come together to manage and collaborate on their entire financial world. We do this by creating an open and diverse ecosystem of partners whose products and services enhance the financial lives of our customers. As a leading innovator in automated bill payments, we’re excited to be working with Gobbill to streamline another critical element of a client’s financial world, their bills.”

Shendon Ewans, CEO and Co-founder of Gobbill, said the deal would enable the company to reach an important customer segment to offer its bill payment services within an established and trusted platform.

“myprosperity is a rapidly growing company that has successfully established a trusted platform and ecosystem of financial advisors, accountants, and other service providers. Our companies are aligned in their values, customer segments and strategic direction.”

The partnership with myprosperity supports Gobbill’s growth strategy to increase the use of its product through key partners, expand internationally and position itself as the global leader in bill payment automation.

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About Gobbill Australia

Gobbill™ is a digital finance assistant that automates bill payments using artificial intelligence for households and small businesses. Users are protected from online scams, avoid late fees, maximise discounts and protect their credit rating scores. Small businesses have the additional benefit of digitising invoices, scheduling payments and synchronising data with their accounting software.

After two years of R&D, the company launched its automated bill payment process for public use. It is now investing further R&D in AI to help customers easily switch service providers and save money using its One-Click-Switch™ method.

Founded in 2015, Gobbill can pay bills issued from any Australian provider including utilities, telecommunications, council rates, insurance and more. Gobbill is a Microsoft Startup sponsored company, a partner of the Australian Government’s cyber safety initiative, AI partner of Silverpond and member of Stone & Chalk.

For further information, see gobbill.com.au or contact the team at: [email protected]

For media inquiries, contact Account Director, Laura Blue at: [email protected]

About myprosperity

myprosperity is a cloud-based personal wealth platform that makes it easy for accountants and advisers to help their clients get their financial world – sorted. Available on desktop and as a mobile app, myprosperity is a whitelabel wealth portal that boasts live data feeds and digital doc signing, as well as budgeting, cashflow and goal setting tools for an integrated all-in-one approach to personal finance.

Founded in 2011, the company is now the leading personal wealth platform in Australia. In March 2018, myprosperity was awarded Financial Advice Innovator of the Year at the Fintech Business Awards.

For further information, see myprosperity.com.au or contact media:  [email protected]

Finding clever ways to accomplish more in a time-pressed business day can be the difference between getting through that endless list of tasks, or not.

Using Gobbill to automate payments is one way.

The Federal Budget is just around the corner. The Australian government has come a long way in offering grants and tax incentives for the startup community and its investors. However, there’s a lot more to do to support innovation.  Shendon Ewans, co-founder and CEO of digital bill payment service Gobbill,says the R&D tax incentive is an important lifeline for startups to continue investing in innovative solutions. “Gobbill has spent the last three years and most of our funding on R&D to develop artificial intelligence in fraud checking and bill payment automation, which has allowed us to file local and international patents and export contract opportunities. “This is testament to the fact that the tax incentive should remain. Any notion to reduce or cap it may have an adverse effect on Australian innovation,” Ewans cautions.

Read more at IT Wire

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CRN (IT News) Impact Awards has announced Gobbill as 2018 Emerging Innovator Finalist.

“Melbourne startup Gobbill seeks to eliminate rampant fraud in bogus bills while returning the precious resource of time to overburdened small business owners and consumers.” CRN

This award is for Australian software startups or other emerging tech firms that have developed their own intellectual property and successfully commercialised it.

Read more at CRN IT News

What’s new?

Each month our team adds a range of new features to make Gobbill even better!

New features:

• Updated dashboard – Gobbill has created a new dashboard, with all the information you need right at your fingertips. Sign in to take a look. You’ll see that the bill calendar and upcoming bills have been moved to the front, so you can find what you need easier than ever.

Other recent features:

• Bill Calendar – You can now view your past and future bill payments via Gobbill’s interactive bill calendar. So you can keep on top of bills and view scheduled payments.
• Late Payments – Late payments can be a hassle, but with Gobbill’s late payment feature now it’s easy. Simply select the ‘Late Payment’ option in preferences and you’ll be able to send bills up to 7 days late.
• Toggle notifications in user preferences – Tailor Gobbill to work for you with new user preference options. Want to receive an email when your bill is paid? Select the communication emails you’d like to receive in preferences.
• Suggestion Box – If you have a request for a feature you’d like Gobbill to create, simply lodge your request here. We would love to hear from you what would make using Gobbill even better.

New features coming in May:

• Photo bill payments – Still receiving paper bills? You can now take a picture of your bill and forward to Gobbill for automatic payment. No fuss, more flexibility.
• Payment by bank account – Gobbill is making your payments more flexible than ever, adding a payment by bank account feature to our payment options. Simply select the ‘bank account payment’ option in the dropdown and link your bank account to Gobbill.

Co-founders Quentin Marsh and Shendon Ewans originally came up with the idea for Gobbill in a local pub. The initial concept was to help people pay bills on time.

However, when Shendon’s father fell victim to an email scam and lost his savings, Shendon and his brother Simon (a software engineer with Gobbill) took action. Email scams are rapidly increasing across Australia and around the world. Gobbill has now built in extra fraud protection and offers a solution for those looking to protect themselves from potential email scams.

Read the Sydney Morning Herald article.

Read The Age article.

Radio program Talking Technology’s  Trever Long and Nick Bennett interviews Gobbill’s CEO about bill payments and making it easier to switch banks and service providers.

Listen to the recording.

Talking Lifestyle is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia owned by Macquarie Radio Network. It currently broadcasts from studios in Greenwich, New South Wales in Sydney’s North Shore. Former call sign 2UE 954 covering Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Perth.

Gobbill processes 3 times more bills in the last month of each quarter, with installments such as council rates and some electricity bills coming up for payment. This makes this period the ideal time for scammers to target individuals with fraudulent bills.

It’s always good to keep a close eye on your email inbox. Statistics show that online scams are a growing issue, with huge losses to scams over August this year. Australians lost $12.5M in scams last month (August 2017), which is almost double compared to the same time last year. Email fraud makes up an estimated 27% of all scams, with an estimated total of $3.4M lost last month. The hardest hit by scams are older women. Apart from being aware and cautious of scams, keep yourself protected with Gobbill to help check and pay email bills.

August 2017 – Number of reports by Age and Gender

Source: Scamwatch

Gobbill is a partner of the Commonwealth Government Stay Smart Online program. In recent months, the Government Cyber program has issued a number of alerts of new phishing emails carrying malware. The emails pretend to come from a number of Australian institutions including Telstra, Origin Energy and AGL.

Find out more about Gobbill. It’s free to use service that protects you from email bill scams.

What’s new?

Each month our team adds a range of new features to make Gobbill even better! Take a look at our new features below.

• [New] Gobbill will automatically store your digital receipts with bills paid by Gobbill*. You can also forward bill receipts to your account to be matched with the original bills. It’s all in one place. To view the receipt, simply navigate to the ‘Paid Bills’ screen and select the view receipt icon.

*Where possible with billers send email receipts.

Other recent features:

• Individualise Gobbill to suit your needs, with increased flexibility when viewing your bills via the new list function. Try this out by pressing the ‘select view’ button.
• Need to pay a bill earlier than the due date? Now you can by scheduling your payment dates. To do this simply click on the calendar icon at the bottom of your bill and select your preferred method of payment.
• Make tax time easy with Gobbill. To view your bills in a spreadsheet, simply log in, visit the ‘All Bills’ tab and export a csv file.
• See what billers are linked to your payment methods by navigating to the ‘Biller Accounts’ tab and selecting the ‘Show/Hide bills’.
• See all the bills for a certain biller by navigating to the ‘Biller Accounts’ tab and selecting the ‘Show/Hide bills’ tab.
• Set Gobbill up to work for you and change your payment method nickname. To do this simply visit the ‘Payment Methods’ tab, select the ‘Edit Payment Method’ icon and update your payment nickname at the bottom of the pop-up screen.
• Gain valuable insights into your spending habits with the Gobbill Report function. To access this feature click ‘Reports’ from the homepage and select your preferred report layout. Currently two layout options are available – ‘Cash Accounting Tax Preparation’ and ‘Accural Accounting Tax Preparation’. You can also download this data into a Summary Report.
• Paying a bill in segments? Users now have the option to process instalment bills through Gobbill, including council rates and more. To do this forward your segmented bill to Gobbill and each instalment will be paid automatically.

The University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School interviews 2014 Master of Enterprise graduate Shendon Ewans about making bill payments a breeze. He shares about co-founding Gobbill with Quentin Marsh, his masters degree and management tips. “Have a go. You won’t know until you do. You’d be surprised at how many people are supportive and keen to help.”

To read more, visit https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/adding-to-your-bill