Evolve Money Disallows Discover Credit Card Payments For Some Bills & Will Allow Vanilla Reloads Starting January

Back at the start of November, Evolve Money announced that users would be able to use it’s online bill payment platform to use Discover credit cards to pay all bills without any fees with plans to add Visa & MasterCard in the future. Today I received an e-mail from Evolve Money stating that this feature will not be available on some bills on their platform starting today (you might still be able to squeeze in one more payment).

Below is a list of bills which will no longer be payable using a credit card:

  • Mortgages
  • Car payments
  • Retail store cards
  • 529 savings account
  • Student loans

You’ll still be able to use any of the other payment methods Evolve money accepts (debit cards, cash packs). They also announced that starting January consumers will be able to use Vanilla reloads to pay bills. Obviously this is a pretty disappointing change, whilst you only earned 1% cash back for using your Discover card it was very convenient for paying these loans/bills.

Evolve money seems to be taking the one step forward two steps back approach recently, let’s hope in the new year that things improve rather than deteriorate and we see them add some much needed features (e.g allowing users to pay bills in excess of $1,000 and payments with credit cards other than Discover). It’s also pretty disappointing that this change was made with no notice.

Full e-mail is set out below.

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Hat tip to Dustin on Twitter.

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MarkD
MarkD (@guest_54184)
December 22, 2014 14:59

Any takers on whether or not Evolve goes under in the next six to twelve months???

They offer a convenience and then take it away. Not a way to make your customers happy.

mbh
mbh (@guest_53628)
December 20, 2014 23:13

I think you are confusing two separate issues. My notice from BB said that THEY would no longer let you load your BB acct. with Vanilla. As far as I know, Vanilla will continue to exist and be sold. For some purpose that totally escapes me.

Daniel
Daniel (@guest_53496)
December 20, 2014 14:25

Did I read somewhere Vanilla is done in May?

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_53505)
December 20, 2014 15:14

As I mentioned in my comment, Bluebird did last week.

Chasing The Points
Chasing The Points (@guest_52778)
December 18, 2014 23:07

This is such a huge bummer, my next “big” idea was to leverage Discover and Evolve

Curtis
Curtis (@guest_52713)
December 18, 2014 19:04

Vanilla Reloads…?? Bluebird just told us those were going away completely the first half of 2015…