Billeo has announced its ZipThru Pay and ZipThru Buy services, which allow Billeo's business customers to simplify and speed up the online shopping and bill pay payment experience.

From paying a bill to purchasing an item online, the ZipThru services allow businesses to provide consumers an easy and transparent online or in-app payment process that takes just seconds to complete. By leveraging Billeo's powerful Active-Context Platform™ and rich biller and merchant directories, the ZipThru services connect Billeo's business customers with billers and merchants that accept card payments online. The technology navigates thru the payment or checkout process, auto-fills the payment details and captures the payment confirmation -- simplifying the payment and purchase processes to one or two clicks.

Billeo has announced its Active eWallet API, "a tool that allows card issuers to add their cards as a payment option in Billeo's Active Context platform.

By adding a credit, debit, prepaid or gift card to Billeo's platform, the issuer is instantly connected to the more than 1.5 million consumers who use Billeo's free iPad and browser apps to shop or pay bills online.

Cartera Commerce and Billeo have announced a strategic partnership and a joint solution to help consumers find and redeem multi-channel card-linked offers -- from both online and in-store retailers -- as they search and shop the Web.

The new solution, combining Cartera's award-winning card-linked offer platform with Billeo's patented context-aware browser technology, will instantly alert consumers browsing the Web to relevant card-linked offers in Web search results and on retailers' Websites. By driving increased consumer adoption of relevant, card-linked offers, Cartera and Billeo's joint solution will help banks and loyalty programs drive incremental revenue and customer engagement, and enable retailers to drive incremental sales and customer loyalty.

Billeo has announced an iPad-based, browser shopping service being previewed at FinovateSpring 2011. The new service, called ShopSmart, "helps Billeo's partners optimize rewards and loyalty programs by layering offers directly into people's search results to alert shoppers when a relevant discount is available. The app also connects shoppers with their Facebook friends, allowing financial institutions to become part of the vibrant online conversations already happening around shopping and daily deals."

American Express announced today the launch of inSite from American Express, an "innovative new shopping tool that delivers Membership Rewards bonus points, discounts, free shipping and other special benefits exclusively to American Express Cardmembers as they shop online." American Express partnered with Billeo, Inc. to develop inSite exclusively for Cardmembers.

Billeo has announced an expansion of its Biller Directory to help consumers pay their bills instantly with a credit, debit or prepaid card at more than 10,000 companies across 26 categories – from cable service providers to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Billeo says its directory is the largest of its kind and "the defacto standard in the U.S. and Canada." Billeo's Biller Directory now covers more than 15,000 companies with two-thirds accepting card-based bill payments. READ MORE »

Billeo has announced that its Offer Assistant has been expanded to include Discover's ShopDiscover rewards and PayPal Shopping deals. According to the company, "discounts from nine of the most popular loyalty and rewards programs appear right when online shoppers search for products and services on Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Billeo's Offer Assistant is one of the many ways the company saves people time and money in all types of online transactions, from shopping to bill pay." READ MORE »

Billeo has announced the launch of Offer Assistant - calling it "a patent-pending, free service that for the first time, delivers real time shopping discounts and rewards directly to the consumer within their unsponsored search engine results.   Billeo also announced a partnership with UPside Visa Prepaid Card that offers consumers redeemable points for purchases made with their card."

Billeo and NetSpend have announced an online service designed to help consumers pay their bills using their NetSpend cards, giving them access to financial tools that the majority of Americans now enjoy. Under the terms of the agreement, consumers that have a NetSpend card will be able to access a searchable online directory of billers that accept the card. Billeo will also provide a free, downloadable toolbar to help cardholders manage their bills. READ MORE »

Billeo has announced the availability of Billeo for the Apple Mac, a browser plug-in that allows users to set up a “one stop shop” transaction center with stored account information, card data, reminders, saved receipts and more. Billeo also said that it has "integrated community learning as part of Billeo’s save receipt feature. With this feature Billeo continuously learns from the community of Billeo users to automatically categorize your web receipts based on the most popular selections other users have made." READ MORE »

Billeo has announced the debut of Splendid Search - a new feature that "allows consumers, for the first time, to store, track and search receipts and records of their online transactions." READ MORE »

Glenbrook's Carol Coye Benson recently interviewed Murali Subbarao, CEO of Billeo, about the status of the online bill payment marketplace in the US. Read on for her full interview . READ MORE »

Billeo and Payment Reporting Builds Credit (PRBC), an alternative credit bureau that collects, reports and scores rental and bill payment data, have announced that they are working together to enable consumers to build credit by doing what they do each month – pay their recurring bills on time.

Billeo has announced a strategic relationship with the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the largest association for community banks in the U.S.

Glenbrook's Bryan Derman filed the following report tonight from today's Finovate 1.0 Conference in New York City.

Billeo has announced "a series of solutions which give consumers unprecedented choice and control in online bill payment. Billeo lets you pay virtually any bill online, using any payment method desired, including credit cards and debit cards. If paying by credit card, the average Billeo user can reap over 5,000 additional points per year as part of their increased card activity, allowing them to redeem points faster and at higher levels. The Billeo directory is featured by VISA, JP Morgan Chase, Wachovia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Target, and many others."

PaySimple and Billeo have announced a partnership to address the business demand for online payment capability and the consumer demand for easy, online bill pay.

Billeo has announced what it says is the largest online biller directory with over 5,200 entries. The Billeo directory consists of billers accepting online payments across 26 different categories -- half accept payment cards, and nearly all accept eChecks. Billeo is currently providing the biller directory search for Visa USA and twenty other banks including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Wachovia.

Online bill management provider Billeo has announced that it has secured $4 million in Series A funding from Altos Ventures, Claremont Creek Ventures, and Pacifica Fund.

Billeo has announced the launch of a new bill pay service that uses toolbar technology coupled with back-end web services technologies to make consumer use of biller-direct websites much more convenient.