Providing awesome customer service to buyers on Trade Me involves being super responsive. One way to help with this is to set up a text that’s sent to you by your bank when a buyer pays you so you know you can ship an item. Follow the two easy steps below to do that – they should work with all banks.
1) Set up a separate bank account for Trade Me payments to go into.
You should be able to do this through your bank’s online banking.
Keep in mind you don’t have control over how money is deposited into your account and in-branch or manual deposits might cost you – consider using an online savings account to avoid fees. Generally banks will stop buyers from depositing to online savings accounts in a branch, and electronic deposits are free.
Giving out your main account to Trade Me buyers might mean you’re charged transaction fees if they deposit at a branch.
2) Set up a text alert through online banking.
Set up a text to be sent to you when your balance goes over $0 on this account or a deposit is made to it that’s greater than $1.
Text alerts are generally free, but a minority of banks charge per text sent to you. As an alternative, email alerts are almost always free.
2.1) Reset the alert.
If your alert relies on a balance increase, transfer the money out of the Trade Me account after you’ve received it.
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