To pay bills or get paid using Bill.com, you must add a bank account to your Bill.com account. This article will help you add your bank accounts via the Android mobile app.
Requirements:
- You should be a signer or have permission to authorize transactions on any bank accounts you add to your Bill.com account
- It must be a US based bank account
- Users you assign the default Administrator and Payer roles can add bank accounts.
- If you create custom roles for account users, you must select the Pay bills via Bill.com permission to allow them to add bank accounts.
Jump to:
- Add a bank account with online banking
- Add a bank account manually
- Verify manual bank account entry with random deposit
- Verify your identity
- Edit a bank account
- Archive a bank account
- Things to know
Add a bank account with online banking
- From the Home screen in your Bill.com app, tap on the Options bars in the top left corner
- Tap Settings
- Tap Bank Accounts
- Tap the plus sign (+)
- If prompted, complete the identity verification process
- The system will ask a series of questions to authenticate you. We don't save this information. We just use it for identification.
- Be sure to use your personal information (full legal name, home address, etc.), as we are verifying your identity
- Each user should complete their own verification, it is not advised to attempt the verification on behalf of another user
- Tap Verify instantly
- Tap Continue
- Tap your bank name to select, or search in the search bar if you don't see your bank listed
- Enter your online banking login information, and tap Submit
- You may be prompted to complete 2-step verification, depending on your bank
- Tap Continue
- Tap the account you'd like to add, and enter the Account Holder Name
- Tap Finish
If you do not have the online banking credentials to add a bank through the online process, you can view the steps to add a bank manually in the next section below.
Add a bank account manually
If you do not have online banking logincredentials, or you don't want to add a bank that way, you can add a bank account manually.
- From the Home screen in your Bill.com app, tap on the Options bars in the top left corner
- Tap Settings
- Tap Bank Accounts
- Tap the plus sign (+)
- If prompted, complete the identity verification process
- The system will ask a series of questions to authenticate you. We don't save this information. We just use it for identification.
- Be sure to use your personal information (full legal name, home address, etc.), as we are verifying your identity
- Each user should complete their own verification, it is not advised to attempt the verification on behalf of another user
- If prompted, complete the identity verification process
- Tap Verify in 1-2 business days
- Enter the details for the bank account - all fields are required
- Tap Finish
- Tap Confirm to confirm you have signing authority on the bank account
- Tap I'm done
- Wait for the test transaction to post in 1-2 days then complete the verification below in the Verify manual bank account entry with random deposit section
Verify manual bank account entry with random deposit
- In the Bill.com app, tap Finish setting up bank account xxxx
- Enter the amount of the test transaction
- Tap Verify
Verify your identity
The Identity Verification process is a security feature that protects our customers and their finances. We take the security of our customers' bank accounts very seriously, as well as having federally regulated due diligence we must complete when it comes to verifying identities and authorizing money movement for accounts.
How verification works
We’ll ask you a series of questions about you that only you know the answers to. These questions are based on information pulled from the public record.
- None of the information is saved but is simply used for verification
- Be sure to use your personal information (full legal name, home address, etc.), as we are verifying your identity
- Each user should complete their own verification, it is not advised to attempt the verification on behalf of another user
- You will have 3 attempts to verify your identity online
If the system is unable to verify your identity online, you'll be prompted to upload documents for manual identity verification.
If you are currently outside of the US but need to add a US bank account to your Bill.com account, or do not have a US public record history, we offer the option to verify your identity through documents.
Edit a bank account
Once you add a bank account to a Bill.com account, you cannot edit or delete the bank account information completely for auditing purposes. You can only edit the select fields below:
- Bank Name
- Account Holder Name
- Default for payments in
- Default for payments out
If you need to edit the account or routing number, you will need to archive the account and re-add.
Edit a bank account:
- From the Home screen in your Bill.com app, tap on the Options bars in the top left corner
- Tap Settings
- Tap Bank Accounts
- Tap Edit on the bank you want to edit
- Make the changes you'd like
- Tap Done
Archive a bank account
- From the Home screen in your Bill.com app, tap on the Options bars in the top left corner
- Tap Settings
- Tap Bank Accounts
- Tap Archive on the bank account you want to archive
- Tap Ok to confirm
Payments in process
Scheduled payments
- When a bank account is inactivated, scheduled payments set to process from that bank account will be cancelled
- If a payment that processed from a bank account inactivated from Bill.com needs to be voided and reissued:
- If the bank account is still open, even if the account has been inactivated in Bill.com, the funds will be returned to the issuing bank account
- If the bank account is no longer open, the attempt to return the funds will fail. Users authorized on that bank account will receive an email notification to contact Customer Support to let us know which bank account to redirect the funds to.
- The bank account to redirect funds to must be active in the Bill.com account
Receiving payments
- Remittance information is locked when a payment processes, so when a new bank account is added to receive payments, any payments already in progress will continue as scheduled to the bank account that was set as Default To Get Paid at the time the payment was processed.
- If that bank account is no longer active, the payment will fail and a new payment will need to be initiated.
- Contact the person/business paying you to reinitiate the payment
- Payments with process dates after the update will use the new bank information if the new bank is specifically chosen or if it is set as the Default To Get Paid
- Remittance information is locked when a payment processes, so when a new bank account is added to receive payments, any payments already in progress will continue as scheduled to the bank account that was set as Default To Get Paid at the time the payment was processed.
Things to know
- We'll send an email to all Administrator Users on the Bill.com account when a bank account is added
- Once your bank account is active/verified, any Bank Authorized User can nominate other users with pay permissions to be authorized to pay bills from the same bank account
- Only US-based bank accounts can be added in Bill.com
- There is no limit to the number of bank accounts that can be added
- A bank authorized user can update the default bank to pay and to be paid from the Bank Accounts page