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How to pay a bill
Schedule one-time, recurring, and future-dated transactions.
Make a bill payment by choosing Pay & Transfer > Pay Bills in the top navigation bar of online banking.
- Start by logging in to online banking.
- Under Pay & Transfer, select Pay Bills to be redirected to the Pay bills online banking page.
a. Note:You can also choose one of your favorite bill payments under Use a favourite bill payment? (learn how to set up favourites). - Enter and verify the Pay to and Amount1 information. (Discover how to set-up a payee)
- Note: If you need to add a payee you can click on the Add payee button on the right, below your account list, which will bring you to the Search by payee section so you can add the payee.
- Note: If you need to add a payee you can click on the Add payee button on the right, below your account list, which will bring you to the Search by payee section so you can add the payee.
- To make multiple payments from the same account, before selecting Continue, click on the Add additional payment button and a new row will be added for you to select the next bill you want to pay from this account.
- Choose a Bill payment type (Immediate, Future-dated, or Recurring) and enter a Memo (Optional).
- For a Future-dated bill payment, you will be prompted to enter a payment date.
- For Recurring bill payments, you will be prompted to enter a number in the Once every box, followed by a frequency from the drop-down menu. You then will need to edit the start and end dates.
- Select Continue to begin the bill payment confirmation process.
- Confirm bill payment details by reviewing the information under the following headings:
- Payment Details
- Source account
- Payments
- Payee name
- Payee number
- Amount
- Memo (visible only if memo entered)
- Bill payment type
- Scheduling details (if future-dated or recurring)
- Once reviewed you can choose to Cancel, go Back a page to adjust payment, or select Continue to complete your bill payment.
- From the Your bill payment has been successfully completed page, you can now
- Print, Email, Export PDF, or add the payment to your Favourites. You may also Navigate to other banking activities like:
- Pay bills
- View scheduled payments
- Manage Payees
- Pay business taxes
- Return to online banking homepage.
- View the Payment details, Source account, and Payments.
- Print, Email, Export PDF, or add the payment to your Favourites. You may also Navigate to other banking activities like:
- Return to the Online Banking Homepage by clicking the Alterna Savings Logo in the top left-hand corner.
1You can hide the memo and Bill payment type information by selecting the arrow icon next to the Pay to and Amount information.
You can delete the payment by clicking on the garbage can icon and the delete button in the Remove Bill Payment pop-up.
Note: By clicking on the Cancel button or top right X button you will close the window and no change will have been made to your payment selection.
- Select Pay bills from the home screen or select Pay & Transfer in the bottom navigation then choose Pay from the list and Pay bills
- You can choose to select from your favourites or click Continue to proceed
- From the Add payment screen, choose
- Add payee in the Pay to window
- Enter an amount
- Draft a memo (optional)
- Choose to send an Immediate, Future-dated, or Recurring payment
- Click Continue to view the payment verification page
- If correct you can click Continue to confirm the payment or
- Select Add additional payment to add another bill payment
*Note: If you need to add a new Payee, you can click on the ‘Add Payee’ button at the top right which will take you to the Search payee section where you can add the Payee, instructions are noted below.
- Select Confirm to see Payment details and finalize your transaction, or,
- Review the payment details and select the back arrow to make changes or select Confirm to complete the transaction.
- Once completed, you can Share, save to Favourites, View details, or select Done to return to the Pay & Transfer page
View/edit/delete payments
- From the bottom on the home screen select Pay & Transfer.
- Choose Pay.
- Select View scheduled payments and select an account to see upcoming payments.
- Select the stacked dots next to an upcoming payment to:
- From the Edit scheduled payments screen, select the stacked dots icon to Edit payment
- From here you can change the payee, the amount, and the payment date.
- Select Add payment to continue.
- Select Confirm to see payment details and finalize your transaction
- Review the payment details and select the back arrow to make changes, or select Confirm to complete the transaction.
- Once completed, you can Share, save to Favourites, View details, or select Done to return to the Pay & Transfer page.
- From the Cancel scheduled payment screen, review the details of the bill payment and the back arrow to return to the Scheduled payments screen or select Confirm to complete the transaction.
- Once completed, you can Share, save to Favourites, View details, or select Done to return to the Pay & Transfer page.
- Payee name, source account, next payment date, frequency, amount, end date
- From this screen, you can share the information as a pdf, in an email, or print, save, and copy the information so that it may be pasted.
- Edit payment.
- Cancel payment.
- See Payment details like,
View/add/delete payees
- From the bottom on the home screen select Pay & Transfer.
- Choose Pay
- Choose Manage Payees to View a list of payees and account numbers.
- Note: you may select any payee name to see the Payee’s details.
- From the Manage Payees screen you can:
- See Payee details like,
- name, account number, and the category it belongs to.
- From this screen, you can share the information as a pdf, in an email, or print, save, and copy the information so that it may be pasted.
- Remove payee.
- Share by email, export as PDF, or send using apps on your device.
- Done to exit
- View details and be directed to a transaction details screen with information like,
- Payee name
- Account number
- Type of authorizations (Combination of authorization)
- Previous authorizations and status.
- Before removing a payee, you will be prompted to review payee name and account number.
- Select Continue to successfully remove the payee and,
- Add payee, or
- Select the stacked dots next to any payee to:
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