Patent ID: 8595134

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: providing, under control of an operator of a payment processing network, a bill presentment service wherein bills received from a plurality of billing entities are made available to a plurality of consuming entities via a plurality of consuming entity service providers; storing in a database, accessible to said operator of said payment processing network, registration and preference data pertaining to each of said plurality of consuming entities; and allowing a given one of said consuming entities which has switched from a first one of said consuming entity service providers to a second one of said consuming entity service providers to access said bill presentment service via said first one of said consuming entity service providers, prior to said switching, and via said second one of said consuming entity service providers, subsequent to said switching, using said stored registration and preference data; wherein: a subset of said registration and preference data pertains to said given one of said consuming entities; and said given one of said consuming entities is allowed to access said bill presentment service via said second one of said consuming entity service providers without having to take any updating action as to at least a portion of said subset of said registration and preference data; further comprising providing a system, wherein the system comprises distinct software modules, each of the distinct software modules being embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and wherein the distinct software modules comprise a bill presentment platform module, a database module, and a user interface module; wherein: said providing is carried out by said bill presentment platform module executing on at least one hardware processor; said storing is carried out by said database module executing on said at least one hardware processor; and said allowing is carried out, at least in part, by said user interface module executing on said at least one hardware processor.