Planning for my high school reunion is proceeding well. Initially, the Reunion Committee worried that not enough people will pay up front, that we may not have enough money to pay a deposit to the hotel where we rent the banquet hall and have dinner provided etc. We did get enough people coughing up the dough, but there was another challenge. In this day and age (the year 2025), you would think any bill-paying platform would automatically have online payment already included. And you would be wrong. The bill-paying platform that we use, which I choose not to remember, at the moment, has no such feature. Or at least, it's not there until I asked for it. We used the same platform in 2010, I probably was not a Treasurer for the Reunion Committee, or maybe my memory is really that bad, maybe we paid everything by paper checks? Based on some old email communications, it seemed money was regularly transferred to a bank account, then somebody wrote checks to cover all the expenses - DJ deposit, photographer deposit, catering hall deposit, etc. Back to the year 2025, or at least late 2024, when the Reunion Committee decided not to have a bank account. How would payment be made then? I can add a Vendor, but there seems to be no way to do online payment. I had to open a ticket with tech support and somebody turned on some switches and voila I was able to send an email to request the hotel's bank info. Earlier I went through my Committee contact with the hotel and got some info but none of that matched the form in the payment platform. By going through the payment platform process, I can see that they had the same bank as me, but their account number is masked, I only see the last few digits, which is how it should be. The due date arrived, I arranged for electronic payment, and money is scheduled to change hand, sort of. Whew, a hurdle cleared, but it would be so much easier if it's a standard thing to start with.
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