When would you need PNC account and routing numbers? After you open a PNC Bank account, you have to deposit money. To do this you can set up a direct deposit or make an ACH transfer. You can also ask someone to wire you money. To do this you need a PNC account number and PNC routing number.

Paper check

There are different ways to find a PNC Bank account number and routing number. First old school way is to use a paper check. For this, however, you need a checkbook. Since PNC Bank doesn’t send a free checkbook, you may well not have the check book. How else can you find the numbers?

Statement of PNC Account

If you receive paper statements for your PNC Bank checking account in mail, you can try to find them there. PNC Bank, however, is notoriously bad with providing paper statements online or through mail. The only place I was able to find statements is in the PNC Bank mobile app.

PNC Bank website

Your best shot to find account number and routing number for your checking account is the PNC Bank website. You can watch my step-by-step instructions on how to find these numbers.

Find Account number and routing number in PNC Bank Mobile App

You can find your PNC account number and routing number using the PNC mobile app. It is pretty easy and straightforward. Open PNC mobile app and login. After you open the PNC mobile app, tap on your Virtual Wallet account. Then scroll down and at the very bottom find section “Account actions”. There you can find account numbers. On the account actions screen you can tap on “Account and Routing numbers”. PNC bank will ask you for additional verification. There after verification you can see the numbers. For more details watch the following video.

Unlike other banks, PNC Bank makes finding account and routing numbers very complicated. I think it is unnecessary. These numbers are mostly used to receive money and it is rarely being misused.