I spent a couple of days trying to add my bank account number in the iTunes Connect backend. This turned out to be one very frustrating experience. I never would have thought that it would be that complicated. Maybe it’s because I don’t now that much about bank accounts, but it seems that a lot of people have the same issues.
None of these solutions worked for me because the bank account number format probably depends on the country. So for people desperately looking for the solution, this could help if you want to add a bank account for a Belgian Bank (in my case KBC should that matter).
So what do you have to do?
- Go to Contracts, Tax and Banking in iTunes Connect
- Select “Add Bank Account”
- Select the country
- After that you can try to enter the IBAN number, but that didn’t work for me. I tried adding my number (ex. BE20735012345678) without any hyphens. The first 4 characters are the country and bank code, and the next 12 numbers are actually your bank account.
- So I selected the option to look up my Bank, which gave me a long list of choices. I selected option with the 735 number in it, because those are the numbers my account starts with.
- So far so good. But on the next screen you’ll have to add your bank account number. And this is where I got stuck. The solution for me was this. Although the validation specifies that the account number is 12 numbers long, you have to specify the hyphens at the correct position. For example: 735-0123456-78.
- Besides that you also have to enter your IBAN number again. That should be without hyphens and spaces.
That’s it! I hope it can prevent somebody from pulling out his hair 🙂
It doesn’t give me a list of choices, do you know how to fix it?
Also had difficulties to past the first screen where they ask for “rekeningnummer”, it were indeed the first 3 numbers of your bank account number (Belfius -> 063 for me). Here you can find a list of numbers used by each Belgian bank.
http://www.bnb.be/doc/gg/Protocol/R_List_of_Codes_Current.pdf
Thanks!
thnx! dat hielp!
For Romanian IBANs the bank account number is formed by the last 16 characters (they worked in my case).
Hey Eusebiu,
My bank account has different digits than the ones emphasized within my IBAN, even if both are addressing same account. How did you manage to make itunes accept these differences?
thanks – zonder jouw tip had ik minder haren op mijn hoofd gehad 🙂
Thanks man. Had the same issue for BNP.
Gave up at first and submitted a ticket at the support but was tired of waiting and gave it another try and found this blog. This info should be on there too for Belgian users as I suggested in my ticket.
For people coming here after guugling: BNP Parisbas Fortis 001 is in there too, the banks are just not sorted logically (imho).
Thanks-Dikke merci
Glad to help. And good luck with your app!
Thank you, I did not understand why the bic and account number were not accepted. No idea that Argenta was 973. This post was so helpful.
For Belgian FORTIS BNP Paribas clients: when you have fortis bnp paribas and you look for the correct bank, you will see about 50 banks of paribas, all with the same name on the same address but with a different “BEL-RN” Code. Just look at the first three digits of your belgian account (not the IBAN but the 123-4567890-12 code. Select the correct bank based on the BEL-RN number otherwise Apple will say your IBAN doesn’t match “Rekeningnummer”
thank you, thank you, thank you !
You solved a problem that my bank manager could not answer!
I submitted the Belgian bank account number as xxx-xxxxxxx-xx and then the IBAN as BExxxxxxxxxxxxxx but then I got the error message ‘The bank account number entered is formatted incorrectly. Please correct your bank account number and resubmit.’
very frustrating indeed! any solutions?
thanks a lot
It’s been a while for me know. But if you follow everything it should work. Or something has changed.
Thank you for sharing!