Bank of America Routing Numbers
comments | Posted in thoughts on Tuesday, June 03 2008 19:30:12 GMT
One of the tasks I have been trying to complete is to setup a direct deposit via Online Banking from Union Bank of California to a Bank of America account. Normally these things go smoothly and without a hitch. For such a transaction you typically need:
- receiver account holder name
- account number
- receiver bank routing number
Well in my case I did not have the bank routing number. Everyone says it's simple just look at the bottom of your check and there is the routing number.
Gee, thanks there's just 1 problem. I don't have access to a check to find the number.
Well a little bit of Googling and I learned quite abit about routing/transit/ABA numbers from Wikipedia. Then I stumbled across this awesome BOFA website FAQ page which details out the routing numbers for every state in the USA. The important thing to note is that depending on the type of transaction you have 3 choices for the routing number.
After a worthless 20 minute phone call to the people at Union Bank during my lunchbreak the other day ... today I went into BOFA during my lunchbreak and a very kind attendant answered my quesiton in about 5 minutes regarding my routing number.
It's critical that a process which takes 10 business days to setup be done correctly the first time. I cannot wait an additional 10 days to fix a problem should one arise.
Thank you kind lady at the bank. Simple things should be simple.