Review: PageOnce

Posted by on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 · 12 Comments 

PageOnce is an online personal assistant that let’s you input your contact information and then manage your financial, shopping, social media (yes, even Twitter) and email from one screen.  I signed up to give it a try yesterday after reading Mashable’s positive review.   Here’s a few points that are sticking with me thus far.

First off, PageOnce doesn’t want to play nice with Firefox 3.  While I realize that FF 3 is beta, it is my choice of browser. It’s slowing down performance a great deal and beach balling when I attempt to open the tab that hosts PageOnce.  I’ve reported this as a bug.

After I log in and get the tab working properly, I’ve experienced random log outs, after logging in and with no activity for 2 minutes.  Reading the Help section, I didn’t see this mentioned as a feature so I reported it as a bug as well.

I’m one of those people who aren’t so hot about the idea of putting my banking information on a website with passwords, etc. even if they have the best protection and security possible.  Even banks get hacked so security doesn’t mean infallible.  9 times out of 10 this security works, but I hate taking the chance.   Some of you readers will be okay with this, some won’t.  Please let me know your thoughts.  PageOnce has clearly addressed these concerns on their Help page.

I’m having issues with a couple of accounts (yes, I know my username and passwords).  AT&T isn’t logging in at all and Starbucks won’t update for some reason even though I know my balance has changed.  The time on that clock is 4 hours since the last update, even though I’ve hit the refresh button a couple times.

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I can see where with many profiles this would be a great management tool for social media sites.  It would be helpful for me to manage multiple social media sites for clients (with permissions, natch).   That will be my next experiment and hopefully in the meantime “whatever is making it beachball” bug will be sorted out.

Also promising is the management of all those pesky mileage and reward accounts if you are a frequent traveler and have numerous.  It would be extra cool if this account could connect you with sites like Farecast, Expedia, Travelocity, Hotwire and other websites that are travel/flight/hotel discounted.  In the meantime, at least all of your numbers are in an easily accessible place.

It’s in beta, it’s got time to fix things and grow.  PageOnce is a free service and it does well at managing account flow and organization. They are looking to add an iPhone application and that always intrigues me.  I could see managing all of my social media accounts from one app on the iPhone and that would be killer for me.

Update: Pageonce responded to my bug reports with stating that they were forwarding the issues to a specialist.  Here is an excerpt: “We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing these problems and w e have forwarded your issues to a specialist. You should expect a response within 7-14 business days.”

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  • http://passpack.com Louise

    Auto-login of your username and password with just 1Click Login? Well that is just what Passpack does. I work for Passpack which is an online password manager.
    We just released our Beta 6 version yesterday! And would love some feedback!

    http://passpack.com

    Hope it helps!

    Louise

  • http://chelpixie.com chelpixie

    Hi Louise,

    I'd be happy to try it out and see what I think. I currently use 1P which also sync with my iPhone but I'll give it a shot this weekend.

    chel

  • http://kenekaplan.wordpress.com kenekaplan

    Funny, I just checking in with my PageOnce account tonight after many months of forgetting I even had the account set up. You described the same experience I had — random log outs, long stalls, some accounts couldn't be added. I'm giving it a little more time to improve before I kill my account.

    I found your site through your Tweet with Jeremiah Owhan @Jowyang. Checking it more before I take a break. Best wishes.

  • http://EdRoberts.TV EdRoberts

    While I'd certainly have concern about the site getting hacked, I'd also be concerned about how legit this company is to begin with. What's to say that they don't take your banking and billing information to steal your identity or worse, simply scrape your bank account? I'm all for trusting people, but until this company can prove they are legit, there is NO WAY I'd even think about giving out my banking or billing info to a random website.

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    I was sure to ask about when meeting with Pageonce founder Guy Goldstein was the potential for this type of data collection to be used towards recommendations of some sort, as we’ve seen with Strands’ branching out into the financial vertical. I learned that this is certainly something Pageonce is looking at for furthered development, as such data can be applied for research purposes to individual companies, or as overarching information tools directed towards inquisitive users.

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  • Hi

    This is the worst support I have EVER seen… nothing worked properly and they NEVER respond, well they do but it takes em about 2.5 weeks…

  • http://chelpixie.com/ Chel Wolverton

    I actually stopped using PageOnce a while ago. It just doesn’t feel good to me to have all that account info in one place.

  • wannabeorganized

    Are there any chances of hacking? I mean, logging on to personal accounts on one app seems a little sketchy… Am I the only one with these “trust issues”???

  • http://chelpixie.com/ Chel Wolverton

    Nothing online is ever completely secure, period. There’s always a chance. That also applies to your banks, etc. You need to practice good habits of paying attention to where you are entering information.

    It *is* a risk. In the unlikely event that PageOnce was ever hacked (read: unlikely is the key here), your information would be accessible. I’d consider that PageOnce actually can’t afford for that to happen or they’d go out of business so security is probably of significant importance to them.

    I wouldn’t say you’re the only one with these trust issues. I have my own.