“We have a big ambition to be the wallet of the future.” “The phone is going to be your wallet, and we want to be one of the big companies to emerge out of it,” he said. Second, there’s a chance Check could go well beyond bill payments, its CEO Guy Goldstein said in an interview earlier this year.

Check doesn’t charge its customers who link their bank account with Check to fund bill payments, but it does charge fees for making payments with a credit card. Not only does tracking and paying for bills in one spot make sense for customers, it also assures a recurring revenue stream to complement the money the company makes from advertiser promotions. Manilla, a competing bill-tracking app that I actually used regularly, announced recently that it would be shutting down it did not allow for bill payments directly within its service. So why was Check worth such a multiple on revenue to Intuit? Two reasons I can see.įirst, while Intuit’s own personal finance and budgeting product, Mint, allows users to track bill payments, Check is one of the few, if not only, bill-tracking services that allows customers to pay for all of their bills without leaving the app. The purchase price was $360 million - a healthy premium for a company that pulled in just $15 million in revenue last year and is forecasting revenue around $20 million this year, according to information in a Wall Street Journal report that Intuit confirmed to Re/code.

Intuit said Tuesday morning that it had acquired Check, a company that makes a mobile app that lets its customers track and pay for all of their bills right from their phone.

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