As a new or existing chapter, you might wonder what bank account you should get or what criteria you should follow when finding your first bank or changing to another one later on. 

Although YCP National does not have specific criteria that needs to be followed when selecting a bank,  we do recommend the following: 

• Look for a bank that has a business account with low fees and many locations; sometimes you can find a bank that has business accounts for non-profits without associated fees 
• Set up the bank using the chapter's legal name (found here). For example “Young Catholic Professionals - Orange County Chapter”
• Ask for a checkbook or two to make reimbursements much easier
• Get at least two debit cards, typically one for the Director of Finance and another for the President. If you want to get a third one, the Director of Operations should receive it as they will mostly be handling the transactions between venues and vendors. We don't recommend more than three cards being created

We also recommend setting up a Zelle account because it doesn't have any fees for processing donations and it can be used to collect Board dues.