USAA Deposit@Home now available for Mac
Since I’m both a USAA customer and a Mac user, I was happy to see that USAA is now supporting Macs for its fantastic Deposit@Home service. Deposit@Home lets you deposit checks into your account using a scanner, which has been a huge help for me. If you’re a USAA customer, you should definitely check it out. For now at least, they’re crediting the account immediately with your deposit, which in itself is a benefit over banks that take a day or two to recognize a check deposit you make at a branch.
Macs aren’t usually well-supported on bank sites. If you’re on Windows, Deposit@Home works through Java applet that directly controls the scanner. On Mac, USAA is instead having you scan the check yourself in JPEG format, and then crop it using their applet. I’d guess that makes supporting Macs easier (since they don’t have to write scanner-control code for Mac scanners), if a little harder for Mac users, but that seems like a good trade-off. I’d rather have Macs supported, even a little awkwardly, than not at all. (Anyone want to try it on Linux and let me know what you find? If you can scan an image on a Mac, you can do it on Linux, too, I’d guess…)
July 16th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Tried it in linux … couldnt get it to work. Says you dont meet minimum requirements. Im guessing b/c of how the scanner integrates into firefox. Any ideas? It does work in firefox on a windows pc … just as an fyi.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:04 am
This is very cool, but I don’t think I qualify for a USAA account. Are there any other banks open to the general public that offer a simular service?
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:35 am
I am a long time USAA member, over 40 years. USAA has always offered superior service through all three of their service sectors, Banking, Insurance and Investment Services. I am very happy with them.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Same result as Jason on Linux, no go with the message “don’t meet minimum requirement”. Trying to see if I can do this using a virtual machine, but it’s a little trickier getting the VM to recognize the scanner. Will update if it works.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Unfortunately I could not get this to work on the Mac - I tried 2 checks with multiple scans but it kept telling me the check was “not clear or not signed”. Arghh!