How to open a Wells Fargo Premier Checking account

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Take advantage of Wells Fargo Premier service, discounts, and benefits. With a Wells Fargo Premier Checking account, you can enjoy the full benefits of becoming a Wells Fargo Premier client. Open with $25. Avoid the $35 monthly service fee for Premier Checking with $250,000 or more in statement-ending qualifying linked balances. ,

Open or upgrade

Open a new Premier Checking account or upgrade an existing Wells Fargo checking account to Premier Checking. If you choose to upgrade an existing Wells Fargo checking account to Premier Checking, your account number will remain the same and your Bill Pay service and tax documents won’t be affected.

Tip

To upgrade your current checking account to Premier Checking or to open a new individual or joint Premier Checking account, visit your local branch.

Combine accounts and investments to avoid the $35 monthly service fee

The Wells Fargo Premier service team can help. Avoid the $35 monthly service fee with $250,000 or more in statement-ending qualifying linked balances (checking account and other deposit product and investment balances). The following accounts are eligible:

Deposit account balances include:

Investment account balances include:

Investment products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors. Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC (WFCS) and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC, Members SIPC, separate registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company.

Wells Fargo Premier

Requires meeting all conditions of Wells Fargo Premier participation. Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Advisors discounts and benefits are available to all customers who have a Wells Fargo Premier Checking account. The Wells Fargo Premier Checking account has a $35 monthly service fee which can be avoided each fee period with $250,000 or more in statement-ending qualifying linked (a) consumer bank deposit account balances (checking, savings, time accounts (CDs), FDIC-insured IRAs) and (b) investment account balances (investments available through our affiliate Wells Fargo Advisors, and applicable bank fiduciary and custody accounts). Wells Fargo may waive the monthly service fee at its discretion for promotional or other purposes. Refer to the Wells Fargo Bank Consumer Account Fee and Information Schedule for further information about the Premier Checking account and applicable bank fees. Deposit products offered by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Member FDIC.

Investment and Insurance Products are:

Wells Fargo Advisors:

(A) If your Prime Checking or Premier Checking account is converted to another checking product or closed by us or you, all linked accounts are delinked from the Prime Checking or Premier Checking account and effective immediately, benefits no longer apply, including benefits to your now delinked accounts. You’ll no longer receive discounts, options to avoid fees on other products or services, or the Relationship Interest Rate; for time accounts (CDs), this change will occur at renewal. Your delinked accounts will revert to the Bank’s current applicable interest rate or fee at that time. (B) If you or we delink an account from your Prime Checking or Premier Checking account but other accounts remain linked, the loss of all benefits and the other consequences described above in (A) will immediately apply to the delinked account. Benefits available to your Prime Checking or Premier Checking account and any remaining linked accounts will continue.

Investment products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors . Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services , LLC (WFCS) and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network , LLC, Members SIPC, separate registered broker-dealers and non-bank affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company .

Certain investments and investment accounts are not eligible for linking.

Deposit products offered by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Member FDIC.