Anyone who has been with MEBank will have recently noticed a new platform has launched called ME Go
One key feature this new platform fails to have is BPay View.. This is my normal method of receiving bills.. with many retailers..
This morning I've had to individually contact many retailers to have them email me directly my bills for processing…
Pretty much a flop in my eyes !
Nfc payments definitely available these days
You can still view them via Internet Banking. Bank Of Queensland is responsible for the adverse changes at ME Bank, sadly.
https://www.mebank.com.au/support/using-bpay-view/
No sadly this has been phased out as they migrate all customers from internet banking to ME Go
I don't think they will stop the internet banking (browser) interface. Seems like a crazy move for a bank when the apps don't have all the functionality. They were just migrating them from the old app to the new (Go) app as far as I am aware).
Bpay View is still a thing?
What's the benefit of BPay?
BPAY View allows for billers to send their bills directly to your bank so you can see them all in one place, allowing you to schedule or plan around them more easily compared to hunting down individual PDFs that are all laid out slightly differently.
This is what OP was experimenting with before giving up on it.
BPAY itself allows you to send money to billers without having to disclose bank account information, meaning that less information is stored on their end. This means you won't have to worry about whether they are following best practices and encrypting payment information when data breaches inevitably occurs.
Some billers will charge you a fee for using BPAY.
BPAY requires you to schedule the payment, whereas direct debit means you hand over your payment details to them and they schedule it, all you have to do is make sure there's enough money on that date.
maybe it's old school but my normal method of paying bills for years
I left MeBank ages ago because their level of tech service was woeful and took forever to have NFC payments.