Our bank, USAA, has a new service that lets you deposit checks with your scanner. Since our new printer has a scanner, I decided to try it out.
It requires Mac OS 10.4 on Macs, which we don’t yet have, so I fired up Anna’s Dell laptop. There goes an hour of time I’ll never get back. Frickin’ Windows.
Anyway, once the networking/update/virus scanner/firewall issues are all worked out the system works pretty well. I cut off the MICR codes on the front of the check on my first scan, but the second try worked fine.
One small issue: you can’t deposit more than the amount that USAA will let you withdraw in a single day. Since we have a large check for a student loan, we’ll (that is Anna will) need to manually deposit this particular check. I don’t think huge checks will become a regular thing, but if they do, that’s a problem I will be very glad to have.
