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Although there are limits when you use Send Money with Zelle®, they are high enough to cover the majority of person-to-person transactions.

The minimum amount you can send or request is $1.00 per transaction.

Send Money with Zelle®, is available for most personal checking and money market accounts. To use Send Money with Zelle®, you must have an Online Banking profile with a U.S. address, a unique U.S. mobile phone number, and an active unique e-mail address. Your eligible personal deposit account must be active and enabled for ACH transactions and Online Banking transfers. Message and data rates may apply, check with your wireless carrier. 

For more information, read the Terms and Conditions (PDF).

Must have a bank account in the U.S. to use Send Money with Zelle®. Transactions typically occur in minutes between enrolled users. If your recipient is not already enrolled with Zelle, funds won't be delivered until they enroll. Transaction limitations apply.

Zelle and the Zelle related marks are wholly owned by Early Warning Services, LLC and are used herein under license. 

Send Money with Zelle® is only available in English in secure Online and Mobile Banking.

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FAQ

Is there a limit to how much money I can send using Zelle®?

Yes. For security reasons, we set restriction on number of transactions and dollar limits, and they may vary by account. You can view the limits within the Regions Online Banking or Regions Mobile Banking app each time you initiate a transaction.

Sending limits: For your security, we restrict the amount of money you can send to recipients. There are daily and 30-day (rolling) limits. The amounts you can send daily and over 30 days will vary based on your funding account, your recipient and the transaction history for each recipient.

Finding your sending limit: To see how much you can send using Zelle, log in to your Online Banking account or the Regions Mobile Banking app. Once in Zelle, select Send. In the middle of the screen under the amount, tap Limit for more information regarding your Zelle sending limit.

Receiving limits: We do not limit how much money you can receive with Zelle. However, the sender may be subject to limits on how much they can send.

At the biggest U.S. banks, Zelle Pay daily and monthly limits tend to be around $1,000 per day and at least $5,000 per month, respectively.

Zelle Pay is a personal payment feature, and standalone app, backed by the biggest banks in the U.S. 

It aims to offer a level of convenience that cannot be provided by major competitors such as PayPal, Venmo, and Popmoney when it comes to sending money to family and friends.

Being offered directly by the banks themselves, customers don't have to link their accounts to a third-party service and the money moves directly between bank accounts.

Because it is so handy, Zelle Pay may be used rather frequently.

That's why it is good to know what limits may apply to these payments and what you can do once you've reached them.

Zelle Pay Limits at Top Banks

Note: We aim to provide the most accurate information, but the limits stated above may change at any time without notice.

If your accounts appear to have different limits, we encourage you to share this information with us in the comments section below.

What Do You Need to Use Zelle?

One very important thing to note is: not every U.S. bank is partnered with Zelle. It is constantly working on adding more and more banks to the network.

The best part:

If your bank is partnered with Zelle, you don't need to do much to use Zelle because the bank has everything set up already -- you can begin sending money right away through your bank's online account or mobile banking app.

When it comes to receiving money, again, no work needed on your part. The money will just end up in the designated account to receive Zelle payments.

If your bank is not partnered with Zelle, you can sign up for the standalone Zelle mobile app (available on Android and iOS). You can link a Visa or MasterCard debit card to send and receive payments.

What is the Process for Making a Payment?

The payment process is rather straightforward and simple:

• Find the person you want to pay by entering the person’s e-mail address or phone number. You don’t need to know the person’s bank information or anything else to send them cash.
• Choose how much money you want to send. If the person receiving money is already enrolled with Zelle, they’ll see the money in their bank account.

If they haven’t enrolled, they’ll get an e-mail confirming that they’ve received a payment. The e-mail will also contain instructions on how to enroll in Zelle’s service.

Cost

One of the biggest draws of Zelle is that there are no fees to have a Zelle account or to send or receive money.

Many competing apps charge a fee if you want to send money in specific ways, usually with a credit card. Other apps also tend to charge fees for expedited services.

Zelle doesn’t charge any fees for its service, but you are limited to using savings, checking, and debit card accounts to send and receive money. You can’t use Zelle to make payments with a credit card.

As always, you should check with your U.S. bank or credit union to confirm that it will not charge any extra fees for using Zelle.

Speed

What really sets Zelle apart from its competition is how fast the service is because it takes out the middleman. When banks work directly with each other, the transfers are much faster.

When you send money using a service like Venmo, you may have to wait a few days to transfer the money from your Venmo account to your bank account.

Some companies, like PayPal, will let customers pay a fee for fast transfers to their bank accounts, but paying to get access to your own money doesn’t make much sense.

With Zelle, person-to-person payments are made directly between bank accounts and occur much faster:

Zelle payment speed

What to Do If You Hit the Payment Limits

There are limits to how much money you can send using Zelle at one time.

This limit is put in place to help protect you.

If someone was able to access your account without your authorization, you wouldn’t want them to be able to empty your bank account through Zelle.

The danger of instant transfers from bank account to a bank account is that it is difficult to get your money back if it is sent to the wrong place or without your permission.

Zelle’s limit how much you can send to someone in a single day, and limits how much you can send in a thirty-day period. If you’re sending money a lot, it’s not hard to hit the limit.

If you do hit the Zelle Pay limit, but still need to send money to someone else, you can try these alternatives.

Use another payment service

Though you won’t get the advantage of free, instant transfers by using another service, you could use a competitor like Venmo to make the additional payments.

A service like Venmo or Square would be the most like Zelle because they are based on mobile apps and they’re easy to set up.

It will take a few days for them to be able to get the money to their account, but it’s the easiest way to send a payment.

Mobile Payments Apps Comparison

Write a check

If you need to make a very large payment, the best way to do it is probably by writing the person a check. While checks aren’t exactly a modern invention like mobile peer-to-peer transfers are, they get the job done in a cinch.

Most banks even let you deposit checks from your phone just by taking a photo. That means you won’t be forcing the recipient to make an annoying trip to the bank.

Pay with cash

If you don’t need to make a particularly large payment and have the cash on hand, you can always pay the person in cash.

In the worst case, you can visit the nearest ATM to withdraw some cash to give to the person.

This method could see you run into issues with ATM withdrawal limits and will force the recipient to visit a bank to deposit the cash, so it shouldn’t be the first option you choose.

Still, the saying “cash is king” is so well-known for a reason. It’s easy to make cash payments if you have the money on hand.

Wait

The slowest strategy, but one that would be one of the easiest to manage is to just wait until you’re back under Zelle’s payment limits.

Zelle has both daily and rolling thirty-day limits, so for particularly large payments, this might not be the best choice. Still, if you’re only hitting the daily limit, you could use this option.

Common Uses for Zelle Pay

Frankly, the ways to use Zelle are limitless. In any instance where you need to pay someone, it is definitely an option.

The most common ways that you're likely to use Zelle are:

Split the restaurant tab

When you're out at dinner with friends, you could ask your waiter or waitress to do a split check, but this quickly become unwieldy for large parties.

Having one person use their card to pay for the whole bill makes the process much faster.

You can then use Zelle to pay that person back. If you have the opportunity, try to be the one who pays for the bill with your credit card. It’s a great way to rack up some easy rewards.

More interestingly:

You may be able to (depending on the bank) split a linked credit card transaction into a Zelle payment request.

Pay your rent

Another common situation in which you’ll need to send money quickly is when you’re paying rent. Your landlord is only going to want one check, not one check from every roommate.

Ask your roommates to send you money with Zelle when you write the check for the landlord. In fact, you can even ask if the landlord accepts Zelle directly.

Buying and selling locally

Think about those times when you're scouring websites such Craigslist or other local marketplace platforms. When you eventually meet up with a buyer or seller, consider Zelle.

It's safer than carrying cash with you and the payment method is quick enough that you can make the transaction immediately.

Plus:

If you're a seller, you can verify that funds are in your account immediately.

Conclusion

Zelle has set out to compete with the big names in peer-to-peer mobile transfers. It has a lot of support behind it from the clout of the many banks that are supporting the service.

With the service being so convenient, it looks promising -- hopefully, more banks will get partnered so that it becomes extremely easy to send money back and forth.

The payment limits are likely to be more than enough for the most common uses of personal payments, but we do expect that the limits will vary based on each customer's relationship with the bank.

FAQs

Will I get taxed on payments received through Zelle?

If the Zelle payments are non-commercial transactions, you are not required to report them as taxable income to the IRS.

If the Zelle payments are commercial transactions (i.e., these are payments for goods or services provided), you are responsible for reporting this income to the IRS. If such transactions total $600 or more per year, Zelle will report these transactions to the IRS through Form 1099-K.

Can I cancel or stop a Zelle payment?

If the recipient of the Zelle payment is already registered with Zelle, the transaction cannot be stopped or canceled because it will be completed immediately.

If the recipient is not yet registered with Zelle, you may still be able to cancel the Zelle payment if the recipient has not collected the payment.

What if I sent a Zelle payment to the wrong person?

You can cancel a Zelle payment if is not yet collected by an unregistered recipient.

Otherwise, you should contact your bank immediately.

Can I send $5000 through Zelle?

What is the maximum money I can send through Zelle?