It’s an annual frustration for us: Our bank puts a per-day limit on our debit card, so we have to spread payments over several days. Has anybody found an easy way to make a partial payment of a registration fee without going through the “Please fill out our information and sometime in the next week we’ll send you a link” process? [We asked for that last week and… nothing yet.]
Usually you can call/go to the bank and have these limits temporarily lifted for larger purchases. Its unfortunate if your bank doesn’t do this for you or there is some other mechanism blocking it.
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Is paying with a personal card and getting reimbursed a reasonable alternative?
Going old school here, but are checks an option?
What about bank transfers like Zelle or a literal bank check from the account? Zelle has their own rules, but is same day. Bank checks clear quickly and srent subject to card limits.
Thx. FIRST did send us a set of separate payment links. Just ended up doing it like that.
It’s an option, but I’m the Treasurer and I really don’t like the optics of writing myself a $6000 check from the team account. In the past, I’ve done it, with full visibility to other mentors, but I still don’t like it.
On my personal account, Zelle has a per-day limit (something like $2K). Does FIRST even take Zelle? An old fashioned check-in-the-mail would work.
In the end, I think FIRST just needs an easier way to make separate payments to our account at FIRST.