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Advantage Checking Account

A checking account that lets you earn dividends at a competitive interest rate and gives you high-value upgrades? Yes, with Advantage Checking.

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Step up to the next level 

There’s plenty to love about Advantage Checking. When you want an account that helps you do more with your money, this is the answer.

  • $1,000 to open the account in branch, $100 online2

  • No minimum balance requirements on a Personal Savings account when a quarterly $25 scheduled transfer is established and maintained from your Advantage Checking account3.

  • No cost for all incoming domestic wires

  • No cost for Ameris Bank standard wallet-style checks (other check styles are available for purchase)

  • No cost for safe deposit box, when available

  • Earn interest on your account balance1

  • Increased daily limit to $5,000 for debit card signature point-of-sale transactions, at your request

  • Access at any ATM nationwide, with all ATM fees reimbursed

  • Option to increase your current Ameris Bank CD rate to a posted rate from our current rate sheet once during the term of the CD, at your request

  • Access to online, mobile and telephone banking, plus e-statements and alerts

  • Visa® debit card

  • No charge for purchase of official checks

  • $20 monthly service fee OR $0 monthly service fee when the combined total of all related Ameris Bank current personal loan balances and average daily balances (during the statement cycle) within personal deposit accounts is $25,000 or greater4

  • Customers age 62 and over receive a 25% discount on the monthly service fee, if assessed

 

 

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1 If you close account before interest is credited, you will not receive the accrued interest.

2 For Online Advantage Checking, minimum opening deposit is $100.

3 The Personal Savings quarterly service fee is not assessed when the qualifying scheduled transfer from the checking account occurs.

4 For Online Advantage Checking, the monthly service fee will become effective after the first full statement cycle.

Ameris Bank is a full-service financial institution serving customers in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. We offer a variety of competitive deposit accounts and have locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.