Starling Feedback

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Nice. Starling business account looks pretty good.

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That Xero looks ace, are there any similar recommendations for self-employed rather than small business?

Just noticed the voiceover switch to remove the American guy to make it nicer sounding to UK peeps. :joy:

How about a nice cup of tea version.

The pace of marketplace additions still seems glacial.
Existing hookups are also a bit half-baked.

What’s the point in just seeing the balance for Wealthify and Wealthsimple?

No word I’ve heard on closer integration.

I heard from Megan that they are redesigning the UI, and looking to add further levels of integration where possible - But yeah, I agree on the Wealthify front (zero point in signing up through Starling).

I’m interested in the whole marketplace/integration thing, because both current accounts are fine (Monzo/Starling) - They do everything I’d need.

But the marketplace allows them to be a bit different, and offer more than your every day bank.

I just hope that it doesn’t become a pointless exercise (would be great to actually benefit from signing up through your bank, rather than it just be slightly more convenient).

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No added value yet, basically.
Xero might actually break that trend :joy:

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The latest Android release has introduced overdrafts for Business accounts.

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What are the eligibility criteria though?

See they have just realeased an update for iOS and now native on iPad

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Is USA payments new? Not noticed it before …

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Didn’t they have a Transferwise integration? If so that would be it.

It isn’t TransferWise but you can make payments in USD. I know you can’t receive in USD yet - hopefully something that will be possible in the future.

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Starling has changed their debit cards from a nice purple to a very very girly teal colour, I think their trying to compete with Monzo but let’s be fair hot coral wins hands down! :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Haha. Girly teal to pink? :thinking::rofl:

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It’s the shade of the card of the teal lol! It’s glossy as opposed to Matt :wink:

A partnership was announced in March 2017 (TransferWise teams up with digital-only Starling Bank | WIRED UK) but then ended in May this year (Starling Bank raising another £80M, ends partnership with TransferWise | TechCrunch).

The partnership didn’t actually amass to anything.

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Goodness me. I always forget colours have genders.

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I’ve never had a problem with people accepting printed pdfs as proof of address.
If I print a pdf, scan the printed copy and email that, they accept it as proof, but I send them the pdf directly without running it through the analogue duplication process, the don’t. Some people are weird :woman_shrugging:t2:

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True and to be fair it’s not even true teal which is darker. But like all card the colour makes no difference to me using it :grinning:

The colour is ok, and I’m not the most manly person going :thinking: but looks sparkly lol! I’m sure it will grow on me, just would prefer a darker colour of teal

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