Automated Clearing House, or ACH, payments power billions of transactions every year, yet many people don't fully understand how they work. Whether you're receiving a direct deposit from your employer ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Learn how ACH payments enable easy money transfers and automatic bill payments. ACH payments are cheaper and can be reversed unlike wire transfers. Protect against ACH fraud by verifying payment ...

The Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing system provides secure electronic transfers of funds between banks. Small businesses frequently use it for payroll direct deposits, paying vendor ...

Propelled by a proliferation of payment options, the use of the automated clearing house system continued to swell in 2006. Nacha, the electronic payments association, said total ACH volume jumped ...