Business Banking Blog Posts

The PayPal Business Debit Card is linked directly to your PayPal business account. You can make purchases from the card and make ATM withdrawals for a fee. When you use your PayPal Business Debit Card, you get a unique 1% cash-back reward that you usually only see with credit cards. The cashback will automatically get added as a credit to your PayPal balance “weekly as qualifying transactions settle.”

You work hard for your business’s money, and your checking account should honor that with great perks, low fees, and helpful banking features. We ruled out the mediocre banks and only included business checking accounts with features and rewards that stood out from the rest.

Bank statements are important for personal and business finance for a few reasons, including tracking income and expenses, identifying fraud, applying for funding, and tax purposes. 

A bank routing number is a 9-digit number that uniquely identifies your bank account. Also known as American Bankers Association (ABA) routing numbers or routing transit numbers, these numbers were originally created by the ABA to make the check transaction process faster and more efficient. Routing numbers are also used for direct deposit forms, apps like Venmo and CashApp, or payments through services like PayPal.

Online banking works similarly to traditional banking; there’s just no physical location for you to visit and sometimes fewer products (loans, different accounts, etc.) to choose from.

From mobile payment apps to wire transfers to good old-fashioned checks, the right money transfer method for your situation will depend on how much money you want to transfer and how quickly you need the transfer to be made. Let’s go through your transfer options. Afterward, check out our guide to business banking if you’re curious about other aspects of business financial management.

BINs work by identifying the type of card being used to make a purchase, the location of the card issuer, and which bank issued the card. Financial institutions can then compare this information to their cardholder data to more easily identify fraudulent charges.

Different banks offer different account types, services, and levels of national coverage. Before you start your search, you need to determine what your banking needs are and the banking services and features you’ll require to meet those needs.

A business bank account doesn’t have to cost you anything. You can find online accounts for your business that have $0 minimum deposits, $0 monthly fees, and $0 minimum balance requirements.

FDIC insurance is a government-run insurance program. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects deposits made with regulated institutions such as banks. In the unlikely event that your bank goes out of business, the government will step in and make sure that none of the bank’s customers lose their money.