Pre-auth £1.xx transactions

[RossA (Andrew Ross)]

I believe this is in the pipeline. There’s been more discussion about it here:

Temporary £1 "pre-auth" transactions from online supermarkets staying permanently?

I regularly do my grocery shopping online, when taking payment they (all major supermarkets I believe, and maybe many other online retailers too) “pre-authorise” your card with a £1 charge to verify it exists and has funds available. After you receive your shopping they refund that and charge you the actual amount. In the Mondo app I still see the original £1 charge (almost a week ago), followed by the actual transaction a couple of days later. When I used to use my old fashioned bank’s debit c…