I’m using an iPhone X, so it’s the same A11 chip.
Looks like Starling are going to launch something similar to bill pots judging by a reply to a tweet about features over the weekend. Be interesting to see there implementation of it, given that three weeks ago they said it’s not something they are working on.
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Interesting - do you have a link to the tweet at all?
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To be honest they’ve been saying that for at least 12 months now 
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Have they? Fair enough then, although all the tweets I’ve seen say it’s not something they are working on, including this one from the 15/01/2021.
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Frm memory, they’ve said consistenly that bills from goals/spaces isn’t something they were going to do. But, they did say that they were working on something ‘better’. I think I assumed that charging for a second account was the ‘better’ solution 
Interesting to see what they come out with, though. Maybe it’ll tie in with the 
Starling Credit Card and be a credit card pot style thing?
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Although I have no problem with paying £2 to Starling per month, if that’s what it takes for profitability, and no real problem in having a second account instead of a Bills Pot, unfortunately Starling’s implantation means it’s unusable for me. I’ll explain why…
There is no separate card issued on the secondary account, and all my Direct Debits are already set up on my original account. I can’t swap the DDs to the new account, because that would be a right old faff for not much gain, but I can’t use the second account for spending because I’d have to toggle the card over, and then my continuous payment authorities (bills like Netflix and Spotify) aren’t coming from my bills account.
Whilst it’s a technically neat invention, it doesn’t completely separate my committed spend from my elective spend.
So would love a more Monzo-esque Bills Space please, and a rolling month from my payday would be fantastic.
And a clever, integrated, offset ‘one-line-of-credit’ across the overdraft, credit card and loan would be awesome. Kthnxbye
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Could they do this with just one hard credit file check? If it needed a new check every time you want to use a different credit type, I don’t see the benefit.
I don’t see why not. A hard check is really to show everyone else you’ve been checked by a certain company. So Starling could offer a £10,000 line of credit and portion that up over the three facilities how they like, using their existing overdraft slider in that case.
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It would be great but it wouldn’t really be such a great deal. Their overdrafts are priced okay, but that same rate for loans would be a rubbish deal.
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I’ve annoyed myself. I joined Starling just for cheque processing, as had several bad experiences (long processing times etc) with monzo. App scanning has been great. But I had a cheque that was over the apps £500 limit, so I decided to post it to Starling rather than Monzo. here I am, 12 days later, stressed & annoyed at not receiving a notification its arrived! so, starling no better than monzo for postal cheque processing is the conclusion.
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Yes, and in fact that was one of the specifically mentioned reasons so clearly not
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I have moved out almost 40 comments that were all happy and pleasant, but wildly off topic
Let’s keep this one single thread about everyone’s other favourite fintech establishment solely on that topic 
I’ve deposited a few cheques with Starling and generally within a few days it’s come up in app and a scan of it.
May just be a pandemic related issue. Royal Mail aren’t doing a very good job atm.
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The issues with Royal Mail are extremely localised. They have been as good as they always are me.
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Swipe up for transactions is back on Android 
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Yay. That’s a lot better imo.
Even intuitive with the scrolling information that includes “Swipe up for transactions”.
No guesswork involved.
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