Paying bills for elderly parents has never been easier
You've probably heard the saying, "it takes a village to raise a child." That's because raising kids is hard work—and it's even harder when you're doing it on your own.
But what if you're not on your own? What if you have a village of people helping out? That's what we want to help you do for your elderly parents.
One way to make life admin easier is with HelpPay. You and your parents can be connected in HelpPay as a 'family group'. Bills can be entered into HelpPay quickly and easily, and both you and your elderly parents can see which bills are due, how much needs to be paid, and when they need to be paid by.
Family chat? HelpPay makes it easier for family payments
Helping Pay makes it easy for you to share the bills between siblings too, so taking care of mum or dad has never been easier—whether you're near or far from each other!
If you're looking for a way to make sure your elderly parents are getting the care they need, you may be wondering how you can do it without sacrificing your own time. Technology is changing so fast that some elderly parents aren't keeping up, and it can take more and more time to manage family life administration.
One way to help pay bills for elderly parents is with HelpPay. You and your parents can be connected in HelpPay as a 'family group'. Bills can be entered into HelpPay quickly and easily, and both you and your elderly parents can see which bills are due, how much needs to be paid, and when they need to be paid by.
HelpPay also makes it easy to share the bills between siblings too—so taking care of mum or dad has never been easier, whether you're near or far from each other!
Let's take the example of paying your elderly parents' bills by credit card:
Login to your account at HelpPay.app or download the app on iOS or Android
Create and login to your parents HelpPay.app account too.
Create a new bill to share by tapping ‘add a bill’.
Enter the BPAY biller code and customer reference number, as well as the amount owed and when the bill is due.
Check the details and tap ‘submit’, this is when the magic happens.
HelpPay automagically turns the details provided into a link that can be shared via email, sms or any chat app – including into family group chats, as well as giving the person that has uploaded the bill to invite people to join them on the HelpPay app and help them pay the bill.
By sharing the link into a family WhatsApp group, family iMessage group or family Facebook messenger group all the family members in the group chat will be able to see the link, see how much is owed on the bill, which bill it will help pay and can make a payment.
Each time a family member makes a payment the amount remaining to be paid changes. For example, let’s say the original amount owed on the shared bill is $100 and one of the kids pays $50 – the next sibling to open the unique HelpPay bill link will see only $50 remaining to be paid.
When money is paid towards paying the bill of an elderly parent, thanks to HelpPay using BPAY details the money is sent directly to pay the account with the company where the money is owed. This is convenient because money doesn’t get stuck half-way, if someone forgets to check their bank account or make a money transfer to pay the bill once the money has been collected. Once money is paid, it’s on its way right to the company! No if’s and’s or but’s.
Once the bill is paid entirely the link shuts off – so everyone knows when the job is done and mum or dad’s bill has been paid – giving everyone a sense of relief that mum and dad are taken care of and the lights will stay on, the water will keep running and they won’t be getting calls from the company asking when the bill will be paid.
The particularly convenient thing for families with HelpPay is that thanks to HelpPay's built in sharing it makes it one-touch-easy to share and pay the elderly family members bill and instantly give everyone visibility with siblings and parents no matter where they are in Australia.
Everyone gets instant visibility of how much to go
It can be a huge relief for all when using HelpPay as no one person in the family has to be responsible for trying to gather money from other family members, keep a track of who has paid, how much they paid and who hasn’t paid yet, and keep updating everyone with how much is left to go.
Because everyone in the family group has the same link - anyone can click on it at any time to see how much, if anything, is left to pay on the bill.
Best of all – because money paid to a bill goes to the billing company directly and never a personal bank account, there’s no chance of someone forgetting to transfer money that’s been collected to be paid. Life admin for paying the bills of elderly parents has never been easier or more straightforward!
Everyone's rewarded
Helping is its own reward but it's also nice to know that when you use HelpPay you're also maximizing a credit card points earning opportunity by paying bills for your elderly parents with HelpPay, as bills paid via HelpPay earn credit card rewards points.
The final word
If you’re increasingly doing more and more life administration including paying your elderly parents bills, it couldn’t be more straightforward for you, with HelpPay. It’s easy to ensure bills are paid and costs can be shared amongst siblings, whether they’re near or far from home – and everyone gets the transparency they need.
Setting up HelpPay for a family group is easy – each person needs to download the app, create and account and then invite each other to connect with our handy ‘contacts’ option in the app.
About HelpPay
HelpPay is a 100%Australian owned company focused on making helping easier.
HelpPay's app is free for anyone to download and the HelpPay Promise ensures that money received to be paid towards a bill only ever goes to pay that bill.
Best of all the HelpPay app keeps a track of how much has been paid so when the full amount owed has been paid it stops accepting payments, providing peace of mind that bills can't be overpaid.
Download the HelpPay app from the Apple Store or Google Play Store for free, today.
