[laurencerowe]

Living in the US I miss the UK’s standing order system where you can instruct your bank to periodically transfer funds without risk of a cheque getting delayed or lost in the post (frequent occurrence with billpay.)

Used to take a few days until Faster Payments got implemented, free of charge and dates from 1968 best I can tell.

The Zelle systems don’t seem to allow periodic payments and the maximum amount is well below that needed to make a Bay Area rent payment.

[toomuchtodo]

Most landlords use cozy.co or some other rent payment management system that should handle the electronic payment with ACH on the backend so you don't need Zelle. If your landlord doesn't, ask them to. It's free for both of you.

[laurencerowe]

Of the three landlords I've had in SF none have used such a system.