Does Servus work with Plaid? How to connect your Servus account to Lodavo

If you bank at Servus, the short answer is yes: your account connects to Lodavo. Servus is Alberta’s largest credit union, serving more than 600,000 Albertans with $41.2 billion under management (opens in a new tab) as of its second quarter this year. Linking a chequing or savings balance takes about two minutes, and your money doesn’t go anywhere.

How to connect your Servus account to Lodavo

1. Get Lodavo (free) and set up your account.
2. Search for Servus when the app asks you to connect a bank. Searching by name beats scrolling, since the list covers a lot of Canadian institutions.
3. Sign in through the secure Plaid connection, using the same member number and password you’d use at servus.ca. You enter those details on that screen, never into Lodavo.
4. Pick the Servus account you’d like tracked. Done.

From there, each week you save earns you free tickets in that week’s draw.

Is it safe? What Lodavo can and can’t see

Yes. Plaid is the service Canadian apps use to connect to bank and credit union accounts, and it covers well over a hundred Canadian institutions beyond the big banks. Two things hold true at every step:

• Lodavo never sees or stores your Servus sign-in. You authenticate on Plaid’s secure screen, and what reaches Lodavo is scoped, read-only access.
• The access stops at a balance. That one number is what your weekly tickets are based on. Lodavo can’t move money, withdraw, or charge anything, and your Servus transaction history stays out of it.

Unlink Servus from inside Lodavo whenever you want.

Which Servus account should you track?

Connect the account your savings actually sit in:

Link as many as you like and the balances add up. No minimum to start. A self-directed investing account is the one thing Lodavo can’t track yet, so stay with the accounts holding cash.

Troubleshooting a Servus connection

• Search Servus Credit Union in full rather than scrolling the list.
• Use your member number, not an email address, unless that’s genuinely how you sign in at servus.ca.
• Complete any verification step Servus prompts you with, such as a one-time code.
• If a linked account stops updating, reconnect it from inside Lodavo to refresh it.

Why prize-linked savings fits Servus members

Servus already pays you for belonging. Its Profit Share program returned $83 million to members (opens in a new tab), which is a real difference from banking at a bank, and it rewards the money you keep there.

Prize-linked savings works on the same instinct, with the reward attached to the saving itself rather than the year end. Canadians aren’t saving much right now, with the household saving rate down to 3.5% in the first quarter of 2026, the lowest since early 2024, according to Statistics Canada. Keep saving at Servus, leave the money exactly where it is, and the balance earns free tickets in a weekly draw worth up to $10,000, with at least $100 always going to a user. Your Profit Share carries on untouched, because nothing about your Servus accounts changes.

Terms and conditions apply. No purchase necessary (alternate method of entry available). Skill-testing question required. Open to legal residents of Canada who are the age of majority. Odds depend on the number of eligible entries received. Full rules and odds at our contest rules.