ALERTS

Alerts allow members to receive notifications about banking activities and other events. Alerts are set up and edited in online banking and can be personalized to suit the member's needs.

Members can receive alerts by both email and text message.

There is no charge to members for receiving Alerts by email. However, when members receive text message alerts, their wireless carrier may charge for receiving text messages. The customer is advised to check with their wireless carrier for details.

Personal and personally identifiable information is not transmitted in the alert message. Accounts are identified by text nicknames.

Email to text is a delivery mechanism of text messages. A user can send a text message to any recipient provided that they know the recipient's mobile phone number and carrier. From that information, an email address is constructed and any emails sent to this address appear as a text message on the recipient's mobile phone.

Note: With Rogers or Fido, the user must text "yes" to enable the ability to receive email to text messages. Then they must text "read" in order to view the alert text message. Rogers and Fido customers can subscribe to a paid monthly service to replicate the same experience of email to text messages with regular text messages.

Currently, only the major Canadian carriers support this method. However, this is not a standardized method across carriers and there is no motivation for carriers to standardize.

Yes. Within online banking, the member can choose to edit or remove any alerts.

Alerts cannot be guaranteed to be received because of the potential for an unstable wireless and Internet networks in general. These networks are open to service interruptions and members may move out of the service range, which can cause a delay in receiving text messages. Customers can check the alerts sent to them on the Alerts History page in online banking, which lists all the alerts sent within the last 30 days.

This alert notifies members when a new bill payment vendor account is added to their online banking account.

This alert notifies members that access to online banking has been locked because the number of attempts to sign in exceeded the number allowed.

This alert notifies members that their online PAC has been changed.

This alert notifies members anytime a login has occurred.

This alert notifies members when a new Interac e-Transfer recipient has been added.

This alert notifies members of their available account balance.

This alert notifies members if their available balance falls below the threshold they've set.

Example. A member's balance drops below $____.

This alert notifies members if a deposit exceeds a threshold they have set.

Example. A deposit exceeding $___ was made to a member's account.

This alert notifies members if a withdrawal exceeds a threshold they have set.

Example. A withdrawal exceeding $____ was made from a member's account.

This alert notifies members if their future-dated or recurring bill payment or transfer has failed.