If I deposit five cheques at an HSBC branch at the same time, does that count as one transaction or five transactions?
If you deposit all five cheques at a branch using one common cheque deposit slip, the deposit will be treated as one transaction (a $5.00 activity fee will be applied accordingly) and five cheque deposit items, if relevant. If your business is within the 20 free cheques deposited per month limit for the HSBC Business Direct account, deposit content fees will not be applied. However, 5 of your monthly 20 free cheque deposits will have been used. If the business has already deposited 20 cheques within the same month, your business will be charged $0.18 per each additional cheque.