Halifax faster payments - nearly there?

2010

The Halifax FP system has been hit and miss from conception.
I no longer even attempt to send money by FP from home.
I go into my local branch and tell them to do it, as their FP system is basically crap.
They never seem to have a problem doing it at the branch and one time I got them to do 3 x £1k because they couldn`t do it in a oner.

Go into your local branch and complain and make them do it.

I know it makes a nonsense of online banking but what do you really expect from a bunch of "bankers".

jackieblack

jackieblack wrote: »

You have to (try to) do a FP manually on the day you want it done. You can't (to my knowledge) set up a FP to go on a future date.

jennifernil wrote: »

My SOs to Lloyds from Halifax go by FP

Mine don't - I wonder why?

Milarky wrote: »

Are you basing that on the 'three working days' message? - because I think they use faster payments for deferred transactions too.

I'm basing it on my experience

Venusflytrap

2010 wrote: »

Go into your local branch and complain and make them do it.

So we would need to go into branch every month to request that a prearranged automated payment be made?

This £5 reward money is slowly beginning to make sense...

King_Of_Fools

Venusflytrap wrote: »

Don't know what the max amt is, we only sent just over £1000.00.

The max SO FP Halifax do is £1000.

equitydealer

Halifax faster payments is a joke. I've had so many problems even with small amounts like £500. Even paying me £5 per month for this poor service is not enough to keep me as a customer. :mad:

Venusflytrap

King_Of_Fools wrote: »

The max SO FP Halifax do is £1000.

That may explain why our SO of £1040 took 3 days then.

Does anyone know why Halifax has set this threshold? HSBC, Barclays and perhaps others transfer much higher amts instantaneously.

Hank_Marvin

Just wondering this. I have Halifax and Nat west account. Am i allowed to use faster payment method from Halifax to Nat west even if they are both in my name. Sounds silly but i use nat west more for ebay and like to keep my main account[ halifax] seperate.

Reason i ask is i did try it last week i've had me as an account payee in my online banking and sent £20 to NW the other day and it went fine. Today, i went to do it again and now i don't have myself as an account payee to my NW Account anymore. So just wondering if i am allowed, if not then thats why it's been deleted. Will the Halifax police come a knocking [joke hehe]

MarkFromCornwall

Hank_Marvin wrote: »

I have Halifax and Nat west account. Am i allowed to use faster payment method from Halifax to Nat west even if they are both in my name.

Yes.



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Hopeful1

Hank_Marvin wrote: »

Just wondering this. I have Halifax and Nat west account. Am i allowed to use faster payment method from Halifax to Nat west even if they are both in my name. Sounds silly but i use nat west more for ebay and like to keep my main account[ halifax] seperate.

Reason i ask is i did try it last week i've had me as an account payee in my online banking and sent £20 to NW the other day and it went fine. Today, i went to do it again and now i don't have myself as an account payee to my NW Account anymore. So just wondering if i am allowed, if not then thats why it's been deleted. Will the Halifax police come a knocking [joke hehe]

Several payee details have been deleted from my Halifax account for some reason and someone else has started a thread asking about the same thing. Can anyone shed any light on this?

cottager

Hopeful1 wrote: »

Several payee details have been deleted from my Halifax account for some reason and someone else has started a thread asking about the same thing. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Yes, this is what could have happened with your account too, Hank Marvin. See:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3345124

No reason you can't have a Natwest a/c in the same name.