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If they’d have implemented proper transaction notifications, not those x amount notifications, I’d have left all my bills there and not moved them to Starling.

Slowly catching up with the rest. Their app isn’t too bad, sending money to others could be easier though :sweat_smile:

It works, but seemingly stopped pulling transactions from 3rd Dec 2021 :man_shrugging:t3:

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I find sending money easy. To be honest, I find the entire app very easy to use. My one improvement would be having the contactless limit setting be a part of the app itself rather than the chatbot, but it still is easy to use in the chatbot.

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Santander & Mastercard - To cheer you up, we’ve got a prize draw where you could win up to £1,500 towards your utility bill payments. WIN your utility bills paid for a whole year | Santander & Mastercard

Seen this in logging in today.

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Am I missing something here? Where is the actual cashback on everyday spending terms? 2.02%, plus 3%, plus Virgin experience voucher for the £1000 savings, but nothing on the everyday spending or am I being blind?

Edit: found it, it’s for their credit cards not current accounts and it’s as pointless as the Santander offering IMO unless the offers are different? :man_shrugging:t3:

The current account app was updated a week ago, it has exactly the same cashback offers as the credit card as far as I can tell.

I don’t agree that the offers are useless. I’ve earned quite a bit in cashback. here are some useful ones at the moment…


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Useless to me* :sweat_smile:

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Just had a look and none relevant to me atm.

Don’t spend £30+ at Morrisons in one visit, and already get 1% via Chase.

My Costa doesn’t cost £6+, even with a cake :man_shrugging:

May be better for others though.

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The offers are similar to those you get from Lloyds or Halifax.
All offers will be useless for a lot of people, but Morrisons is useful for everybody who shops there (loads of people). LNER is useful for anybody who wants to travel by train because you can use their website to book a train for any rail operator, it doesn’t have to be an LNER train.
I often get offers from Lloyds for use at pub chains such as Toby Carvery, Sizzling Pubs, etc and I eat at those places anyway so I’ve saved a fair bit with the discounts.

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I get offers from santander and they are occasionally useful. I’ve used their Morrisons, LNER, and Kindle offers to get a bit of money back. Not too bad.

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Sometimes I wonder if we actually save by using the discount or if we are really just overpaying without it :joy:

When LNER are on almost everything then when I book them I don’t see the discount as a discount anymore just the regular price. When I can’t find the discount I feel like I’m paying more than the regular price. Weird I know!

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See also: Dominos!

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Could I access these cashback offers without the app ?

It’s been there for about 2 years, I’m sure of it!

You have to opt-in to the cashback feature first using the app, but once you have done that you are automatically ready to claim cashback on offers (you don’t need to opt-in to each brand individually) and they email you telling you what some of the current offers are, every week.

So there’s no need to use the app beyond the initial enrolment.

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Thank you, not fully avoidable but worth a try.

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So I cannot get this to work - it tries but never links any accounts - anyone else have the same problem?

Have you updated your app at all?

Though I don’t recall updating mine to be fair.

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Mine works fine. Only slight issue is that the transactions from Nationwide are in the wrong order (oldest is first in the list) but I can live with that.

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Nor me. Just bounces out and back to login :man_shrugging:

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This is neat and means I’ll drop one of my Amex cards for this.

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