Common questions about Plaid for TELUS Business customers
Common questions about Plaid for TELUS Business customers
Learn all about the Plaid service: What is it? How does it work? Is it safe to use?
Plaid is a trusted financial data network that securely retrieves your banking details and shares them with TELUS for faster and easier payments.
Why does TELUS Business use Plaid?
Plaid is a secure, trusted service that makes it easy to connect your bank account to the services you use, like My TELUS.
Without Plaid, you need to find and manually enter your institution, transit and account numbers when making a bank payment or setting up pre-authorized payments. This manual process can be frustrating and prone to mistakes, failed payments and fraud risks.
This is where Plaid comes in. With Plaid, you can automatically link your bank account in seconds and feel assured that your banking details are accurate. It eliminates the frustration of manual entry while keeping your financial information encrypted and secure.
In Canada, users who chose to connect their bank accounts with Plaid were
When using Plaid, your data is kept tokenized, encrypted and private. Plaid has passed strict technology audits and regularly undergoes security testing.
Read more about the security of Plaid on the following resources (available in English only):
Plaid can help you connect hundreds of Canadian financial institutions to your My TELUS account, whether it’s a national bank, local bank, credit union, investment bank or digital bank.
If you can’t find your financial institution on Plaid, visit
Plaid makes it easy to connect your bank account to your My TELUS account with no manual entry required:
When you choose to connect your account with Plaid, you’ll be able to select your financial institution from a list. Next, enter your login and password.
Once you’re logged in, you’ll see a list of your bank accounts and be able to select the one you want to connect.
In a matter of seconds, Plaid encrypts the bank account data and securely shares it with TELUS. Plaid never shares your username and password with us.
Once we receive your banking details, the connection between Plaid and TELUS ends.
What should I do if I get an error in Plaid?
If you get an error while connecting your bank account with Plaid, try connecting again. It's likely a temporary issue that could be resolved with a second attempt.
If the error continues, consider entering your banking details manually or retrying later.
For further troubleshooting help, view our article on