I haven't heard anything about this before--felt it would be better if brought to a new thread rather than appended to numerous other billpay threads.
Prior to the MBNA/BofA merger, I had individual cards with both, and used my MBNA card to billpay other credit cards. I had separate logins for both BofA (SS#) and MBNA (username), and on the MBNA side could select my MBNA card or one of 2 money market accounts as the funding account.
Like everyone else, after the integration of MBNA billpay into BofA, I was still able to use my MBNA card billpay by logging into BofA with my SS#. Yesterday I happened to get a piece of mail from BofA asking me to verify my online access to their site post-merger by using my MBNA login. I just tried logging in using my username from MBNA on BofA's site (which worked) and checked out billpay, and it shows all 3 of my BofA cards, as well as former MBNA, and my 2 money market accounts as funding sources. It appears to let you send payment to other cards using your BofA card as the source.
Has anyone else tried this and had success using BofA cards as funding sources? I'm going to try a test payment using a BofA card but I see no reason why it wouldn't work. Again, you'd have to login using your MBNA login & this assumes that BofA has matched all of your accounts up.
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I used my MBNA (BofA after merger) credit card to fund my BofA checking account and was charged a $10 "Bank Transaction Fee" plus interest since it was considered a cash advance.
I was able to transfer incoming funds to BofA checking and outgoing to another BofA customer account without incurring fees. Outgoing transfers from checking (to your own account at another bank) would be charged a fee.
nm sorry...should edit the above out..
I tried logging in with my old MBNA login and nothing. But it would be nice to tap our old BofA for billpay.
I'll update this thread further once I have successfully made a payment using a BofA card. In any case, this leads me to believe that MBNA/BofA has not intention of discontinuing billpay...
I'll update this thread further once I have successfully made a payment using a BofA card. In any case, this leads me to believe that MBNA/BofA has not intention of discontinuing billpay...
wow that looks completely different than what i see. I cannot login to bofa.com using my SSN or my old MBNA passwords either. I am using BofA's CA site (which is different from others) what state are you using on BofA login?
I got the same thing as the OP. I hadnt tried using my old MBNA login as I already had a BofA login and my MBNA CCs migrated to that.
But when I login using my old MBNA login, all my accounts are there (including customer service emails), and in the billpay I have the option to pay bills with both MBNA and BofA credit cards. It allows the BofA cards to be selected as the payment account, but I do not have any bills to pay right now to test it.
BTW, in NY, and I did not receive any messages from BofA prompting me to do this.
I think this must mean good news as soon we will all be able to use BofA cards for billpay. Apparently BofA is rolling out the new template first for those who never logged in Online Banking before. They seem to do things in stages but I think it definitely means good news. Thanks for the heads up OP.
I had a different login for MBNA, but I figured it all got migrated to my BofA login. Well, you're right, I can also log in using my MBNA credentials, and there I do see my BofA card as well as my two MBNA cards as funding sources for MBNA billpays. Anyone had success using this? I have to think they wouldn't treat it as a cash advance or anything. This could be very cool.
... But a few hours later, it's gone again. What gives?
tooshy said:I think this must mean good news as soon we will all be able to use BofA cards for billpay. Apparently BofA is rolling out the new template first for those who never logged in Online Banking before. They seem to do things in stages but I think it definitely means good news. Thanks for the heads up OP.
I saw my MBNA cards migrate to my existing BofA account, so never used the MBNA login. Good thing for me
I tried this in Firefox and it didn't work. Just showed mine and my wife's BofA accounts on the same page...strange. Decided to try it using IE and it worked! Well, at least when I get to the bill pay page our BofA it allowed me to schedule a payment using a BofA account that existed pre-merger. Went back to the current login page and checked and the scheduled payment is not shown as pending. So it remains to be seen if this actually a functional page. It may do everything but actually send the payment.
edit: oops, my bad, the payment shows up as scheduled on both.
Here we go again...folks be patient!! Haven't we learned from the merger days last October that BofA interface takes a few days or even weeks to make the full complete switch over. I'm happy to wait til next month to start using BofA cards for billpay, another 30K of available funds, just in time to pay off a 0% that's ending in June.
I have never had and MBNA card. I tried logging into boa website and set up bill pay for the first time, I could only see my checking account (could not see the 2 credit cards I have with them), it appears, for BOA only customers its a no-go.
I will check later again to see if this changes.
I have always been loging into boa website to check my accounts.
Glitch99 said:I got the same thing as the OP. I hadnt tried using my old MBNA login as I already had a BofA login and my MBNA CCs migrated to that.
But when I login using my old MBNA login, all my accounts are there (including customer service emails), and in the billpay I have the option to pay bills with both MBNA and BofA credit cards. It allows the BofA cards to be selected as the payment account, but I do not have any bills to pay right now to test it.
BTW, in NY, and I did not receive any messages from BofA prompting me to do this.UPDATE: My Bank of America cards have now disappeared from the Billpay screen when signed in under my old MBNA login. Guess it was either a temporary glitch or a test of things to come.
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