A year ago I wrote about a service that takes most of the pain out of paperless billing called FileThis Fetch.
FileThis allows you to set up connections to a slew of online services such as financial institutions, utilities, and stores, and automatically download statements to a destination of your choosing. I know lots of readers and colleagues that love it.[1]
Today the FileThis folks launched the FileThis Fetch iPhone and iPad app, and I’ve been playing with it since it went live on the app store.[2]
See And Manage Connections
If you are an existing FileThis user, you can see the connections that you have set up with FileThis.
You can add a new connection right in the app, and choose from one of their many supported services.
I believe that by default, FileThis will check your connections for new statements every week. If you’d like, in the app, you can tap the arrow icon to manually kick off a check.
When it finds new statements to download, it will send them right to your destination. Statements are never actually downloaded to your device so you don’t have to worry about data usage or mobile device security.
Manage Destinations
Speaking of destinations, you can manage that in the app as well. You can choose whether you want to use Personal.com, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, or Google Drive.
FileThis also supports downloading files to your computer without using a cloud service, but obviously the iPhone app can’t do that.
Paperless Statement Management
We are doing more and more computing on our phones and tablets, so the FIleThis iPhone and iPad apps are nice additions to the FileThis service. It’s a little crazy that you can have all of your paperless statements downloaded without having to touch a computer.