There’s no such thing as a TD eSeries account. ESeries are mutual funds (not an account) that you buy through the TD online brokerage (Direct Investing) account, which is called WebBroker.
It’s easy to set up a WebBroker account. Just go to your nearest TD investment branch, or if you don’t know where that is, go to your nearest TD bank branch and I’m sure they’ll be able to walk you through the process. We made an appointment by emailing our banker (since we also have a mortgage through TD), and they helped us set up an appointment with the TD investment person. Once we arrived for the appointment, we had ours set up within an hour.
Once you have your WebBroker account, you can log in and transfer money into the account from your TD bank account, and then once the money arrives in your WebBroker account you can go ahead and purchase whatever eSeries fund you want, or any other stock or ETF. It usually takes about a day for the funds to get transferred.
We follow the Canadian couch potato model using TD funds because all our other banking is with TD, so it just makes everything easier for us. Also, we only buy a couple times per year, so the $9.99 fee is not such a major cost for us. I know there are others on the forum that use Questrade or other online brokerages that do not have trading fees but I’m not sure if you can purchase TD eSeries funds through those online brokerages. If you decide to go with Questrade, do a search on the forums first because i think some folks have a referral code you can use to get a discount or get free money or something like that.