Offers are available from participating merchants. Your personal banking information is not shared with the merchants participating in PNC Purchase Payback. Whether you receive offers may depend on using your PNC Visa Card, or where you use your PNC Visa Card to make purchases. Not everyone will get the same offer. See PNC Purchase Payback Rewards Program Terms and Conditions for additional details and limitations.
Open a Business Checking Account Online
Ideal for small businesses and startups
Features & Benefits
You need a basic business checking account, plus the convenience to bank on your terms, whether day or night.
- No charge for up to 150 transactions per month based on the combined volume of deposits, deposited items, paid items, and ACH credits and debits received.[2]
- $5,000 cash deposited per month over-the-counter, at the night depository or via Quick Deposit at no charge.[3]
- Cash Flow Insight®[4]: Spend Analysis, Timeline, Trend, Cash In, Cash Out - tools and insights to help operate your business confidently. Cash Flow Insight is enabled for all eligible new business checking account customers enrolling in Online Banking.
- No charge for Online Statements, or get Paper Statements for a small fee.
- No ATM transaction fees at PNC Bank ATMs.
- Free PNC Bank Visa® Business Debit Card.
- No set-up fee for Overdraft Protection.
- Free Online Banking[5] and Bill Pay.[6]
- Use our Quick Switch Kit to help you complete your transfer of checking related services to PNC Bank.
Waive the Monthly Fee
3 options to avoid the Monthly Account Maintenance Fee
$12 or $0 Monthly Account Maintenance Fee
Waive fee if you meet ONE of the requirements:
- Maintain a $500 average collected monthly balance, OR
- $500 or more in purchases on a linked PNC Business Credit Card, [7,8,9] OR
- $500 or more in eligible linked Merchant Account deposits monthly [8,10,11,12]
The first three months are on us - There is No Monthly Account Maintenance Fee for the first three statement cycles.
Cash Flow Solutions
Take control over what’s in, what’s out and what’s possible for your business.
How to Apply
We know you’re busy. We offer more ways to apply to make it easy to get started.
Use our Quick Switch Kit to help you complete your transfer of checking related services to PNC Bank.
Choose Your Business Entity Type
Determine which documents you may need to provide to verify your business registration and your authority to act on behalf of the business:
- SSN of owner who will sign on the account
- Fictitious Name Registration, also known as Trade Name Registration, Certificate of Assumed Name, Registration of Alternate Name, or Assumed Name Registration
- SSN of partners who will sign on the account
- Partnership Agreement
- Fictitious Name Registration, also known as Trade Name Registration, Certificate of Assumed Name, Registration of Alternate Name, or Assumed Name Registration
- Information regarding the individual Beneficial Owners of the business. Beneficial Owners are those who own, directly or indirectly, 25% or more of the equity interests of the business. This information is collected to help fight financial crime.
- Legal name, Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Address, Citizenship, Percent of Ownership
- SSN of members, managers or partners who will sign on account
- Operating Agreement
- An Operating Agreement may not be necessary if it isn’t required by the state. Additional supporting documentation may be requested for account opening.
- Limited Partnership Agreement (LLP only)
- Certification of Formation/Organization (LLC) or Certificate of Limited Partnership (LLP)
- Fictitious Name Registration, also known as Trade Name Registration, Certificate of Assumed Name, Registration of Alternate Name, or Assumed Name Registration
- Information regarding the individual Beneficial Owners of the business. Beneficial Owners are those who own, directly or indirectly, 25% or more of the equity interests of the business. This information is collected to help fight financial crime.
- Legal name, Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Address, Citizenship, Percent of Ownership
- SSN of officers or directors who will sign on account
- By-laws
- Articles of Incorporation and any amendments
- Certification of Formation/Organization
- Board of directors meeting minutes (signed and dated).
- Fictitious Name Registration, also known as Trade Name Registration, Certificate of Assumed Name, Registration of Alternate Name, or Assumed Name Registration
- Information regarding the individual Beneficial Owners of the business. Beneficial Owners are those who own, directly or indirectly, 25% or more of the equity interests of the business. This information is collected to help fight financial crime.
- Legal name, Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Address, Citizenship, Percent of Ownership
- SSN of officers or directors who will sign on the account
- By-laws
- Certification of Formation/Organization
- Board of directors meeting minutes (signed and dated)
- Authorization letter on company letterhead
- Fictitious Name Registration, also known as Trade Name Registration, Certificate of Assumed Name, Registration of Alternate Name, or Assumed Name Registration.
- Information regarding the individual Beneficial Owners of the business. Beneficial Owners are those who own, directly or indirectly, 25% or more of the equity interests of the business. This information is collected to help fight financial crime.
- Legal name, Social Security Number, Date of Birth, Address, Citizenship, Percent of Ownership
- Review the entity type above associated with your Non-Profit Organization to determine which documents to provide (Partnership, LLC, Corporation)
- A 501(c) tax form or state Non-Profit registration may be needed for certain product eligibility
You may also want to review our current Service charges & fees before applying.
To start your application, please call us at 1-855-762-2365 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday.
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