How do I send an ACH payment?

How to Send an ACH Payment from your Bluevine Dashboard

An Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfer is an electronic money transfer between banks that allows money to be pulled from an account or 'pushed' online to accounts at other banks. An ACH payment can take 2-3 business days to be received, when using your Bluevine Business Checking account. When using a credit or debit card as the funding source, it can take between 3-4 business days. If you use an external bank account as the funding source, it can take between 5-6 business days to be received. If your payee was added from the registered payee directory, please allow 4-6 business days for your payment to be received by your recipient send an ACH payment, follow these steps:

If the payee you want to send the ACH payment to isn’t already listed as a payee on your account, you will need to add them. Please follow these steps to add a payee:

1. Sign in to your Bluevine Dashboard.
2. Click on Send Payment.
3. Click on Add Payee and choose from over 40,000 registered payees or add your payee manually.
4. Click on Save and Activate.

Once the payee is added, follow these steps to send your ACH payment¹:

1. Click on ‘Send Payment’.
2. Select your payee by searching their name.
3. Select which account your would like to pay from on the Pay from drop-down menu.
   • Note: You can select your main and sub-accounts, external bank accounts, or credit and debit cards you've added to your Bluevine Dashboard as the Pay from source.
   • Note: You must add your card information before you can use it as a funding source
4. Insert amount and bill details.
5. Click Next.
6. Choose the payment method (ACH), frequency, and the send date, and then click ‘Next’.
7. Verify the inputted information, and click ‘Send Payment’.

How to Send an ACH into your Bluevine Business Checking Account

You’ll use or provide the following information when initiating an ACH transfer into your Bluevine Business Checking account. 

If you are looking for the steps to fund your account, review our How do I deposit funds into my Bluevine Business Checking Account? support article.

1 Payments are not processed on weekends or Federal Reserve holidays.