BoA and Quicken BillPay?

Because I will soon be moving to an area not serviced by Wachovia (my current bank), I'm considering opening a checking account at Bank of America (BoA). Since BoA has branches both here and where I'll be moving to, I figure that I can start transitioning my finances over to them now.

I've always paid my bills online with Wachovia thru Quicken, and have never been charged any fees. Does anyone know whether Bank of America works the same way, or do they charge a monthly fee if you pay bills thru Quicken?

Thanks!

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BRH
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Yes. They tried to charge us when we first opened the account because they thought we had signed up for the Quicken bill pay. When we told them that we were only downloading into Quicken they reversed the charge.

The work around is to do your bill paying on the BoA website instead. That's how I pay my bills and don't have a monthly service fee. I also have several vendors that send me e-bills through BoA. I don't think that is available if I pay through Quicken. I can also pay my bills if I am on someone else's computer when traveling.

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Laura

SORRY I DON'T SEE ORIGINAL TO REPLY TO: I have quicken set up to pay certain bills automatically thru BA and I also input into quicken other bills I want BA to pay. When I do a update or one step update BA comes back with check nrs that they assigned to my checks. ALL FREE and I do not need to go to BA website.

Mel

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shakey

Some things you don't get without paying the fee are currently updated credit card transactions. You have to download the monthly statements to update and get no updates between. You can still use bill pay on someone elses computer and the transactions are automatically entered in Quicken later when you do an update. I did not at all like being charged a fee, but I also kind of like just entering my monthly transactions into my Quicken register and automatically having the bills paid when I update. I guess to each their own.

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gregg

"shakey" wrote in news:47d0b0bb$0$84170$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net:

That is similar to what I can do through Citibank. However, you have to have a special account (an "everything counts" account) and an unconscionably high balance in your total accounts. That was simple when I had a mortgage there, no some IRA funds are still (barely) doing that trick.

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Han

Han wrote in news:Xns9A5A4057BA8BFikkezelf@199.45.49.11:

While different in "feel" both Citibank and Chase have good websites, IMHO

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Han

I also have 2 BoA cc cards. I don't pay a fee and my transactions are being downloaded in real time.

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Laura

BRH formulated on Thursday :

From my experience with both Wachovia and Bank of America, it depends on a host of factors. i.e. where you live, when you opened the account, who you talk to at the branch, what you believe or don't believe from the web site. I'm sure what you want done can be done for a fee and after many problems and phone calls. It might even be possible to do it for free, but I doubt it.

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Capt. Tuttle

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