# Set Up Automatic Payments as a Brand
Take the PXA course
You can set up ACH (Automated Clearing House) payments and automatic payments for your impact.com account. These payments will cover both impact.com fees and your [Partner Payment Invoices](https://help.impact.com/brand/what-would-you-like-to-learn-about/platform-features/finance/finance-documents/partner-payments-invoices-explained-for-brands).
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**Note:** Automatic payments are currently only available to impact.com accounts that have their currency set as USD (U.S. dollar $).
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#### Make an ACH payment
An ACH payment must be completed *first* to ensure you won’t run into issues with making automatic payments. ACH payments take 3-7 business days to process.
1. From the top navigation bar, select **your balance** → **Make Deposit**.
* If this option does not appear, you may not have the permissions needed to make a deposit. Reach out to your Account Administrator about obtaining these permissions.
2. On the *Make Deposit* screen under *Payment Type*, select **ACH**.
3. On the right under *Required Funding*, enter the amount you wish to deposit.
4. Select **Pay**.
5. Double-check the information you entered, then, next to *Your Name*, enter your name.
6. Select **Confirm Deposit**.
Troubleshoot ACH deposit issues
There are several reasons why an ACH deposit may fail:
* **Incorrect bank details**: The bank account details or routing number are invalid.
* **Account frozen**: The bank details provided are for an account that has been frozen by the bank.
* **Account closed**: The bank details are linked to an account that is no longer active.
* **Insufficient funds**: The account has an insufficient balance to clear the deposit amount.
* **Unauthorized debit**: Your bank has rejected the payment because impact.com has not been added as an authorized creditor, or whitelisted.
To prevent ACH deposit failures, follow these best practices:
* **Verify account information**: Double-check that you have entered your bank account and routing numbers correctly. A single incorrect digit can cause the transaction to fail.
* **Maintain a sufficient balance**: Ensure that your bank account has enough funds to cover the deposit amount before initiating the transaction.
* **Authorize impact.com**: To avoid unauthorized debits, ensure that you have added impact.com as an authorized creditor (whitelist) with your bank. Use the company IDs below to set this up:
For online banking: 7261120226
For direct transmission: 1261120226
#### Set up automatic payments
After you've made a successful ACH payment, you can set up automatic payments.
1. From the top navigation bar, select **your balance** → **Settings**.
2. On the left, under *Settings*, select [Automatic Payments](https://app.impact.com/secure/advertiser/finance/view-edit-automatic-deposits-flow.ihtml).
* If you haven’t made an ACH payment yet, then select **Make an ACH deposit** from the prompt and refer to the [*Make an ACH payment*](#section-idm273507947764068) section above.
3. On the *Automatic Payments* screen,  **\[Toggle On]** **Autofund**.
4. Fill in the requested information. Refer to the *Field reference* below for more information.
* The frequency of automatic payments depends on how you set up the **Forecast Window** and **Check my balance** fields. The system determines an amount and cadence based on these fields and your upcoming due costs.
Field reference
| Field | Instructions |
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| Check my balance | Select how often (daily or weekly) impact.com should check to ensure your account will have enough funds to cover your payouts. |
| Payment method | Either select a payment method that is already set up, or select **Add Payment Method** to create a different payment method to fund your account. |
| Forecast window | Enter how many days into the future impact.com should look to figure out how much your account should fund itself. |
| Payment threshold |
Select \[Unchecked box] if you want a hard cap on how much money impact.com can automatically fund your account before requesting permission. You will receive an email to approve the funding amount.
If you enable this setting, enter your approval limit and select which impact.com account user will receive the email.
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5. Select **Save**, then enter your name under the **Your Name** field to authorize automatic payments.
* Once you successfully set up Automatic Payments, impact.com will only notify you of an automatic payment request processing if the request lands above your Payment Threshold.
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**Need help?** If you have any questions regarding automatic payments or need help setting up or managing your automatic payment settings, reach out to your CSM (or [contact support](https://app.impact.com/support/portal.ihtml?createTicket=true)).
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\[Unchecked box] if you want a hard cap on how much money impact.com can automatically fund your account before requesting permission. You will receive an email to approve the funding amount.