Can I link a 3rd party financial institution to move money between my booyah! account?
Yes you can. In either your booyah! Online or Mobile Banking, you can head to the ‘Move Money> External Transfer/Pay a Person’ area, you’ll see the ability to “Add External Account”. You will be prompted to enter your external account details like account name, routing number and account number. Once the account is added, you will need to verify that the external account belongs to you.
Steps to transfer money to an existing external account:
1. Login to online or mobile banking and navigate to “Bill Pay” then “Send/Transfer Money”.
2. In the “To” field, select the account you want to move money into (may be the external account or booyah! account).
3. In the “From” field, select the account you want to move money into (may be the external account or booyah! account).
4. Enter the desired send date and amount to transfer.
5. Click “Send”.
By default, this transfer will be done one time only. Optionally, you can click the down arrow to set up recurring transfers. Example frequencies for recurring transfers are weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, yearly and more.
Steps to link an external account:
1. Login to your account on your mobile device or online banking.
2. Navigate to “Bill Pay” then “Transfer/Send Money”.
3. Click “Add” next to “External Accounts”.
4. Enter the external account details. Click Save.
a. The external account status will now be “In Process”. Within hours, there will be two small ‘micro-deposits’ added to your external account and you will receive an email notifying you of the action.
5. Once you receive the email, log into your external account to view the micro-deposits. Write these down.
6. Log into your booyah! account.
7. Navigate to “Bill Pay” then “Transfer/Send Money”.
8. Click the “Activation Required” link next to that external account.
9. Scroll to the bottom where you can enter the micro-deposit amounts. Click Activate.
This will activate your external account immediately and you will be able to start transferring funds between accounts.