Halifax faster payments - nearly there?

Nath4n

I tried to initiate a transfer of £1000 but when I went through to confirm it said 3 days so I cancelled.

Out of interest I then tried £250 and went through to confirm - 2 hours.

Then tried £500 - 3 days, then tried £250 again - 3 days (!?), £10 - 3 days. E.g. Like others have said in this thread by pressing back a couple of times and changing the amount I had managed to block Faster Payments of ANY amount.

A few hours later I logged back in and apparently they had been re-enabled and I was able to make 2 separate faster payments (£1000 and £500).

Very very odd, it appears you can "lock" yourself out of faster payments of any amount by playing around with the settings. This lock however may only last a matter of hours.

sveika

I have always used Halifax faster payments and had never got any problems with it before but today it doesn't seem to work. I've even tried to send £1 and it does not allow me to. Anyone got the same problem?

Stalkdog

Used Halifax FP this morning to transfer £300 with no problems

sveika

Tried again after a couple of hours and it worked! Hurray!

nzseries1

No luck for me this morning with any Halifax Faster Payment - tried £1,000 - nope. Tried £249 - nope. Tried £5 - nope. Oh well.

Yesterday, I tried £1,000.01 - yes! However I cancelled that transfer, then tried £2,500 - nope. Then I tried £1,000 - this time NO! Tried £250 - no.

Utter bol****s. I'm glad they're usually only my secondary account that I use purely for the free fivers.

aliasojo

No FP for me this morning either, on any account. Getting really fed up of this now.

Milarky

nzseries1 wrote: »

No luck for me this morning with any Halifax Faster Payment - tried £1,000 - nope. Tried £249 - nope. Tried £5 - nope. Oh well.

Yesterday, I tried £1,000.01 - yes! However I cancelled that transfer, then tried £2,500 - nope. Then I tried £1,000 - this time NO! Tried £250 - no.

Utter bol****s. I'm glad they're usually only my secondary account that I use purely for the free fivers.

Try '£999' [once only] instead of exactly £1k then '£1' or repeated '£190' plus '£50'.

The '£190' figure is what I have found can be made up to fifteen or so times [certainly up to the account daily of £2500] Any larger amount [eg £200] will give problems.

nzseries1

Milarky wrote: »

Try '£999' [once only] instead of exactly £1k then '£1' or repeated '£190' plus '£50'.

The '£190' figure is what I have found can be made up to fifteen or so times [certainly up to the account daily of £2500] Any larger amount [eg £200] will give problems.

Thanks, I'll definitely try this out tomorrow, and report back here

aliasojo

This may well just be a complete co-incidence, but after getting my FP requests knocked back on more than one account, I gave in and sent via the 3 day thing (so it was due to leave the acount tomorrow) and logged out. A minute later I decided I'd be quicker physically going to the bank instead, so logged back in to cancel the pending payment and then discovered I could FP again.

I tried this on another account and same thing happened. I ended up getting all my FP done after all. As I said, could be total co-incidence but maybe worth trying if you can't FP? I wondered if setting up another transfer somehow cleared the block? Could well be talking rubbish though, just a thought.

carpy

i couldn't do a FP last evening either, must have been some problem with their systems i guess....