Save with spare change
Roundup Savings
A simple way to turn everyday spending into savings or giving.
With Save My Way, you can set meaningful financial goals, choose simple ways to fund them, and watch your savings grow over time. Features like automatic transfers and Round-up savings makes saving effortless by turning spare change and everyday purchases into steady progress.
You may be surprised how quickly your savings can grow when saving becomes part of your everyday routine. Enroll through Digital Banking.
Save with spare change
A simple way to turn everyday spending into savings or giving.
Set it and let it build.
Automate transfers. Control the funds and frequency that feels comfortable.
You'll get both, so you can use whichever is easier:
Use the monthly ones as you go or just wait for the year-end summary and hand that to whoever does your taxes. Both are waiting for you in Save My Way in online banking, anytime you want them.
St. Mary's Bank can't give tax advice, so check with a tax professional about donations.
The St. Mary's Bank checking account tied to the debit card — the one you grab for coffee, gas, and groceries.
Here's a tip: if you put your subscriptions and monthly bills on that same card, those purchases will collect spare change for you too.
Nothing bad happens. That savings transfer just gets skipped — it picks back up when there's enough in your account again.
When you buy something with your St. Mary's Bank debit card, we round the purchase up to the next whole dollar and move the spare change into your savings.
Buy a coffee for $4.50, and $0.50 goes into savings. You don't have to do anything — it just happens in the background.
Automatic transfers — yes, as many as you like. You can set up a transfer for every goal you have, and they can all pull from the same checking account.
Roundups work a little differently. Each checking account can feed roundups to one goal at a time. So, if you want roundups going to two different goals, you'd need to use a different checking account for each one.
If you only have one checking account, no problem — just pick the goal you want your spare change going to, and you can switch it to a different goal whenever you'd like.
We add up all your roundups from the day and move them together the next day, in one transfer. So, if you bought lunch, gas, and groceries on Monday, you'll see one transfer on Tuesday — not three.
| You Bought | You Paid | Spare Change Saved |
| Lunch | $34.56 | $0.44 |
| Gas | $28.72 | $0.28 |
| Groceries | $75.21 | $0.79 |
Moved to savings the next day = $1.51
Yes. You can split your round-ups between your savings and a cause you care about, in 10% steps — 90/10, 70/30, half and half, whatever feels right. You can also send all of it to savings, or all of it to charity.
On a $1.51 day with an even split, $0.76 goes to your savings and $0.75 goes to the charity. When it doesn't divide evenly, the extra penny goes to you.
With four simple steps, right in your online or mobile banking:
That's it. From then on, every purchase on that card adds a little to your goal.
It's a way to save on autopilot. You decide how much and how often — say, $25 every month — and we move it for you. You can change it, pause it, or turn it off whenever you want. Just keep enough in the account it's pulling from.
General Savings is simply the money in your savings account that you haven't assigned to a goal yet.
If you deposit money without putting it toward something specific, that's where it sits. You can move it into a goal whenever you're ready, or pull money back out of a goal and into General Savings just as easily.
Think of it as your "not spoken for yet" pile — always there, always available.
*Annual Percentage Yield (APY) accurate as of 10/23/26. Deposit rates are variable—rates and terms may change at any time after account opening.
Balances of $0.01 - $100,000.00 earn 3.65% APY
Balances of $100,000.01 and over earn 3.65%-0.05% APY
Qualification requirements to open account and earn stated APY: open a St. Mary’s Bank High Yield Savings account with a minimum of $10. Maintain an existing or open a St. Mary’s Bank checking account (minimum $10 to open) and add qualifying recurring direct deposit totaling at least $1,500 during each monthly statement cycle. To qualify for the premium interest rate, the primary owner of the High Yield Savings account must also be the primary owner of the St. Mary's Bank checking account receiving the required recurring direct deposits. After opening a High Yield Savings account, you will have up to two statement cycles to establish a St. Mary’s Bank checking account and establish recurring monthly direct deposits to continue earning the stated savings rate. Thereafter, if qualification requirements are not met in any statement cycle, your account balance will automatically earn the base savings rate of 0.05% APY until requirements are met.
Limit one High Yield Savings Account per member.
Qualifying Direct Deposit: A direct deposit is income that is automatically deposited into a member’s St. Mary’s Bank checking account by an employer, government agency, or other qualifying organization. This can include your paycheck, pension, Social Security, or other eligible benefits. Transfers between your St. Mary’s Bank accounts, and payments received through peer-to-peer or money app services are not considered direct deposits.
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