There are 3 options available to receive money in your UPside card:
- From the checking account of you, a parent or a friend
- From your employer
- From another UPside cardholder
1- From the Checking account of you, a parent or a friend
Your card comes with a Direct Deposit Account number similar to the number of any bank checking account. Send your card’s DDA number to whoever needs to send you money from their checking account (you can email it directly from your online account from the My UPstart window). They simply have to initiate a regular transfer to the account designated by your DDA number.
Click here for your DDA number.
NOTE: Most banks offer account to account transfers from their website, however here are some useful tips for you and the sender of funds:
- some banks send two micro-deposits (under $1) on your card prior to the intended full transfer to verify that there was no mistake in the DDA number and that you do have access to the card account. In this case, just commuincate the two micro-deposit amounts to the sender when you receive them in the card.
- If the sender’s bank does not provide online transfers, the sender simply needs to go to the bank branch and initiate the transfer in person.
Click here for step by step instructions on how money can be sent from a checking account to an UPside card.
2- From your employer
Print the voided check showing your DDA number and send it to your employer. You will receive your salary directly to your UPside card.
Click here to get your voided check with the DDA number.
3- From another UPside cardholder
You can receive funds from any other UPside cardholder directly to your card, instantly and for free. You will receive an email when someone has initiated a card-to-card transfer and will see the load in the list of transactions of your online account.
And, don’t forget that you can send funds easily from your card to another UPside card from your online account in the UPtoU window. All you need is the receiver’s email or mobile phone number that they used to open their account.