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Electronic Payments

Our suite of electronic payment services offers you speed, security, accuracy and flexibility. We'll help you streamline your payables processes, providing you with a variety of easy-to-use, technologically-advanced payment options.

ACH Services
U.S. Bank is one of the nation's top volume originators of Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions. We offer a variety of electronic payment initiation options, including online and direct data transmission for both domestic and foreign payments (to Canada, Mexico and Europe). When the timing of your ACH disbursements is exactly known, your cash flow forecast and decision-making information is enhanced.

SinglePoint ACH
SinglePoint has a powerful, secure and easy-to-use online ACH origination service. Using this online service, you can create ACH debit and credit transactions and transmit them directly to the bank for processing.

  • Pay vendors, employees, shareholders or other parties for a variety of transactions.
  • Save the time and cost of writing, reconciling and distributing checks.

ACH Direct Transmission
Would you like a cost-effective way to initiate electronic disbursements? Send us an electronic file of ACH disbursements, and we will process the transactions as well as debit your account on the settlement date.
  • Save the time and cost of writing, reconciling and distributing checks.
  • Improve your cash flow forecast since you know exactly when you need to fund ACH disbursements.
  • Disburse dividends and pay taxing authorities or other parties for a variety of transactions.

ACH Receipt Reporting
Would you like detailed information on your incoming ACH transactions without waiting for your checking account statement? You can obtain daily detailed information with our ACH Receipt Reporting. This service provides:
  • Timely, comprehensive detailed information.
  • Report options to meet your needs, including data transmission or a U.S. Bank information reporting service.

International ACH Services to Canada, Mexico and Europe
Would you like to send ACH transmissions to Canada? Using direct transmission or SinglePoint ACH, you can create ACH debit and credit transactions and transmit them directly to a Canadian bank for processing. And, with direct transmission you can also initiate ACH credit transactions to Mexico and Europe.
  • Pay Canadian, Mexican and European vendors, employees, shareholders or other parties for a variety of transactions.
  • Canadian payments may settle in U.S. Dollars (USD) or Canadian Dollars (CAD). Settle your Mexican transactions in Pesos.
  • For Canadian payments SinglePoint lets you enter recipient information once and reuse it each time.
  • European payments can be sent to five countries (Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).

Direct Deposit of Payroll
Electronically deposit funds into your employees' accounts at the financial institution of their choice using one of our ACH services. You can initiate payroll, pension benefits, expense reimbursements and other payments this way.
  • Save the cost of writing, reconciling and distributing checks as well as time spent handling lost or stolen checks.
  • Provide an employee benefit that saves them time and eliminates your need for special arrangements for employees traveling, vacationing or away from your headquarters.
  • For disbursement recipients without bank accounts, our Disbursement Card Services offer an ATM/point-of-sale debit card solution.

Information Reporting services
Fast, accurate and timely information delivered where, when and how you specify.

Online Tax Payment Services1
EasyTaxSM
When making automated tax disbursements to the federal government or to any state that allows electronic payment, EasyTax provides the following clear advantages:
  • Quick, easy-to-use Internet or Touch-toneTM telephone ACH origination service.
  • Fully Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS)-compliant service.

For a more detailed look at what you can do with U.S. Bank EasyTax, explore our online demo. Use the following Access Code and Password to access the system.

  • Demo Subscriber Access Code - 01871429
  • Password - 1234
View Demo

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EDI Payments
Bring precision to your payables with U.S. Bank Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Payment Origination Services. EDI provides the technology, information and flexibility needed for an efficient payables program. You can:

  • Reduce your paper, document storage and postage expenses when you send electronic payments and/or payment-related data electronically.
  • Gain precision in your disbursement scheduling and enhance your cash outflow forecasts.

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Wire Transfer
Wire transfers move funds quickly and securely around the country or the world. We offer a full range of input options including telephone, PC and mainframe transmission to send immediately available funds electronically. Additionally, wires may be initiated through SinglePoint.

Initiate a wire transfer through any of the following methods:

  • Touchtone phone
    Enter repetitive wire transfer requests through a touchtone phone.
  • Voice
    Call U.S. Bank Wire Transfer Operations to initiate any wire transfer type.
  • Automated Standing Wire
    Establish domestic, repetitive transfer instructions to automatically move funds between two specified accounts when your pre-set criteria is met.
  • Mainframe Batch Wire
    Send your automated wire transfer files, for any wire type, from your mainframe computer via direct transmission. Both domestic and international (FX and USD) wire transfers can be included in a single file.
  • Customer Money Transfer (CMT)
    Establish a connection to the bank with your PC to initiate domestic and international wire transfers. You can also receive reporting information on all of your incoming and outgoing wires.
  • SinglePoint Wire Transfer
    Initiate and manage wire transfers, including domestic and international (USD and foreign currency) transfers and tax payments. Security features, online anytime access and user centered design enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of transferring funds via wire.

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PowerTrack® B2B Electronic Payments
More than a business-to-business (B2B) payment system, PowerTrack goes beyond traditional Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) to enable your organization to address the crucial steps that precede and follow settlement, including billing, pre-payment reconciliations, audits and accounting processes.

  • Gain back-office efficiencies by reducing paperwork and costs, decreasing delays and seamlessly integrating your financial supply chain.
  • Automate audit and reconciliation functions and eliminate error-prone manual processes, while gaining assistance with meeting your internal, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements like Anti-Money Laundering, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Sarbanes-Oxley and the U.S.A. Patriot Act.
  • Benefit from exceptional financial control that disburses payment immediately upon your approval. Sellers receive immediate payment of invoices, and you are provided generous and flexible payment terms.
  • Complete business intelligence that factors in pricing agreements and approval requirements for each purchase, and provides a wide range of reporting options.

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Transacting International Payments
Learn more about our solutions for doing business globally.


For more information on these services, please contact us.

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  1. U.S. Bank is not a tax advisor. When it is appropriate, you are encouraged to seek professional tax advice.

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