Free Checking

When you receive a new deb­it or cred­it card, it will include an acti­va­tion stick­er with instruc­tions for acti­vat­ing your card online or via phone. You’ll also find a link to acti­vate the deb­it card on the Dash­board of Online Bank­ing, and a link to the cred­it card acti­va­tion page can be found on the deb­it card acti­va­tion page. 

You’ll find your check­ing account num­ber on the bot­tom of your checks. If you don’t have your checks with you, you can find it in Online Bank­ing. From the Online Bank­ing Dash­board, click on your check­ing account. This opens a sep­a­rate pan­el that shows your recent trans­ac­tion his­to­ry.  At the top of the list of trans­ac­tions, you will see a link that says Account Details. Click on this link, and the dis­played infor­ma­tion will change. The account num­ber for a check­ing account is a four­teen-dig­it num­ber, list­ed as the “MICR Account Number”.

Exam­ple

The rout­ing num­ber is iden­ti­cal for all SF Fire Cred­it Union accounts: 321076506. You can find the rout­ing num­ber dis­played in the bot­tom right hand cor­ner of most pages with­in Online Bank­ing. You’ll also find it in the teal box that appears at the bot­tom of many pages on this pub­lic website.

To open an addi­tion­al check­ing or sav­ings account, please send us a Secured Mes­sage with the details of the account you want:

• Account Type: (check­ing, Tiered Sav­ings, Term Certificate)
• Amount to deposit: ($250 min­i­mum for a Term Certificate)
• For a Term Cer­tifi­cate, the term you want: 3 Months, 6 Months, etc.
• The exist­ing account from which you want to trans­fer funds to the new account

For a check­ing account, please also com­plete and attach the third page of a Mem­ber­ship Appli­ca­tion pack­et to indi­cate your choic­es regard­ing Over­draft Pro­tec­tion and Cour­tesy Pay.

To send a Secured Mes­sage, click on your name and icon in the upper right hand cor­ner to open a menu, then click Messages.

There are a few steps to take to help make sure your Mobile Deposit goes through.

• Make sure to endorse the check on the back (include your name, mem­ber num­ber, and “For mobile deposit only to SF Fire Cred­it Union”)
• Make sure you have suf­fi­cient light­ing where you are tak­ing the picture
• Make sure the sig­na­ture on the front of the check does not obscure the account details
• Make sure the check fits with­in the frame on the screen when tak­ing the photo
• Once you receive a Mobile Deposit #, please record on the back of the check and retain the check for two weeks.

If you get an error when try­ing to launch the cam­era, check the Pri­va­cy set­tings for the cam­era on your device. You may need to give the SF Fire CU Mobile App per­mis­sion to access the camera.

You can load a Trav­el Noti­fi­ca­tion via Secured Mes­sag­ing in Online & Mobile Bank­ing, or by call­ing or con­tact­ing us by chat. If you use Secured Mes­sag­ing, please select Trav­el Noti­fi­ca­tion as the Sub­ject; this will not only pro­vide a tem­plate for the details we would like to get from you, but also ensures it is rout­ed cor­rect­ly for the fastest pro­cess­ing of the request.