Have you got your German IBAN and now want to make bunq your main account? You can do that with our completely mobile account switching service directly in the app! 🙌

All users with German IBANs can simply activate the account switching service, with which all incoming payments and direct debits are automatically bunq account.

How can I submit the application?

All you have to bunq request to switch to bunq and we'll do the rest. 💪

Go to the home tab
Select the sub-account and tap the ⚙️ in the top right corner
Tap Account Switching Service
Tap on With Online Banking and enter the IBAN your old account
Select the payments you want to redirect
Enter your personal information
Confirm everything with a tip to complete the account switch. 🌈

Processing your application

As soon as you have completed all the steps, your application will be sent to your old bank and processed automatically! 🪄
The exchange service will be active 2 weeks after you have applied for it.

The following steps

As soon as your application has been submitted, you will receive an email with your login data, which you can use to check the processing status of your application at any time. You will also have access to a dashboard that lists all the payments you selected when you applied for, and you can see which contractual partners have already been notified and where you still need to help manually.
As soon as all of your contractual partners have been notified, you will receive a second email with further information and a reminder to log in to check the processing status.

It means that:

All your contractual partners and everyone who debits direct debits from your old account will be informed of your new account bunq at bunq.
As soon as a new direct debit is received from a retailer, we will inform them of bunq IBAN The merchant will then IBAN in their database so that future direct debits are debited bunq Any direct debits withdrawn from your old account will not be processed.

If you want to cancel the account switching service after your application has already been accepted, please contact us via Personal Support .

For more information, you can also see our terms and conditions here.

Would you like to find out more about bunq ?

Have a look here 🌈