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?
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
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.
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.
A bit of Starling history. The decision to end the user forum. As one of the former Starling “Gurus” (not my choice ), it’s a fascinating reminder of why forums such as this didn’t work for Anne and the team…
I’m actually really surprised how on the ball Starling are with adding support for different app stores and platforms compared to Monzo. Starling seem to actually try and be present for and serve as many customers as possible whereas Monzo are stuck in this hole where you either adapt to their way of being on just one phone or you leave…
Not just Huawei app gallery but also adding all the pays people ask for, having web and iPad apps, allowing multiple logins, etc