Comment by throwaway-0001 14 hours ago
If you link your bank, and approve direct debit (it’s just a popup with yes/later - very risky move), they will eventually withdraw from it when there are any issues. And most likely you’ll lose more disputes when your bank is linked - but no proof of this so take it with a grain of salt.
Mercury's personal banking product allows you to reject ACH transactions before they clear. They also allow you to generate virtual account numbers, so you can easily cut off an entity without having to change your main account number. Unfortunately Mercury charges a monthly fee.
That's pretty cool! I didn't know about that.
For anyone curious, the fee is $240/yr.
I used Mercury when I had an LLC and had a great experience. It feels like they're the only bank that's not 10 years behind in technology. I've never tried their personal banking, but the ACH denial power makes me a lot more curious.
SEPA Direct Debit (the standard way to debit accounts within the SEPA, i.e. roughly "Europe/Eurozone") gives you 8 weeks to revert a debit that you disagree with. Whether a bank exposes this in the UI or not depends on the bank.
Probably every EU bank: https://docs.adyen.com/risk-management/chargeback-guidelines...
Every bank in Germany allows you to dispute transactions done with Debits.
At ING it's just a button click. It's directly next to the transaction on their app.
Fortunately I can review direct debit consents and revoke them via my bank's web app UI.