[brongondwana]

Moving from Norway back to Australia felt like going back in time 20 years when it came to banking! In Norway I'd get a new bill and enter the code into my banking and it would offer me an option to "automatically approve up to X per month for this vendor".

Automatically approved bills didn't get auto paid - but they appeared in the "upcoming bills" when issued, with a pay date of the due date on the bill. I could go an hit "pause" or "stop" on any bill - and it either wouldn't pay or would be removed entirely. Anything that wasn't auto-approved would start in paused mode and I'd have to manually approve it - but that was a single click.

Still, I agree that when I'm in the states it feels crazy old tech. They still require signatures on credit cards!

[girvo]

BPay gets you close with that. Had that for years and years at this point.

Now we have Osko and PayID which is immediate free payments without needing to remember bank account details. It’s neat!

[brongondwana]

Yeah, PayID is pretty cool.

[grecy]

I was doing that 10 years ago in Australia with BPay...