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Automatic payments
Note: From 27 May 2023, all electronic payments will be processed 7 days a week between all participating New Zealand banks, including public holidays. Find out more
Use automatic payments to pay set amounts regularly – like your rent, or payments to a credit card or savings account.
Setting up an automatic payment
To set up an automatic payment, go to the ‘Transfer/Pay’ tab of Internet Banking for Business:
- choose ‘Create an Automatic Payment’ from the left-hand menu
- enter the details of the payment
- choose the date you want the payment to be made, and how often it should repeat
- click on ‘Next’ – your payment is now ready to be authorised.
Editing an automatic payment
To make changes to an existing automatic payment, or to skip a payment, go to the ‘Transfer/Pay’ tab of Internet Banking for Business:
- choose ‘Transfer and Payments List’ from the left-hand menu
- scroll down to 'Upcoming Automatic Payments' and find the payment you want to make changes to
- click on 'Edit', then make your changes to the 'Payment Details' section, or enter the number of payments you'd like to skip in the “Payment Cycles to Suspend” field
- click on ‘Next’ ‐ your payment is now ready to be authorised.
Deleting an automatic payment
To delete a payment, go to the ‘Transfer/Pay’ tab of Internet Banking for Business:
- choose ‘Transfer and Payments List’ from the left-hand menu
- scroll down to 'Upcoming Automatic Payments' and find the payment you want to delete
- click on 'Delete', then "Confirm'
- Your payment is now deleted.
Related topics
- Transferring money between accounts
- Bill payments
- Tax payments
- Payroll and direct credit payments
- Making a one-off payment
- Same-day cleared payments
- Individualised Payments
- Setting up payment templates
- Authorising payments in Internet Banking for Business
- Retrying business payments
- Processing times for business payments
- Making international business payments
- Collecting direct debits
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