Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

WillPS

ThePirates said:

Trying to open a Halifax Regular Saver 5.5% from the link on the front page but my application always 'Something has gone wrong with your application. Please visit one of our branches to apply for this account.'
Does anyone know if this account is still available?
https://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/fixed-term/regular-saver.html

Try logging in, either to the app or online banking, then launch your application from there.

ThePirates

WillPS said:

ThePirates said:

Trying to open a Halifax Regular Saver 5.5% from the link on the front page but my application always 'Something has gone wrong with your application. Please visit one of our branches to apply for this account.'
Does anyone know if this account is still available?
https://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/fixed-term/regular-saver.html

Try logging in, either to the app or online banking, then launch your application from there.

I'm not an existing customer, used the New to Halifax link...

Wheres_My_Cashback

Emily_Joy said:

Stafford Railway BS RS issue 1

Currently pays 5.15, at the moment there appears to be no postcode requirements. Opened one on Sunday, application went through, received an email saying the account has been added on Monday, with no instructions how to fund. Yesterday received yet another email saying the account has been added to my online profile. Still no idea how to add money to it. Send a secure message (via online system) asking for funding instructions - no reply. But it looks like indeed I now have *two* RS issue 1 with zero balance and no clue how to add money to any of them!

I really dont get this type of post. Simply googling/a phone call or just looking at their website and you would have had the answer in seconds.

WillPS

ThePirates said:

WillPS said:

ThePirates said:

Trying to open a Halifax Regular Saver 5.5% from the link on the front page but my application always 'Something has gone wrong with your application. Please visit one of our branches to apply for this account.'
Does anyone know if this account is still available?
https://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/fixed-term/regular-saver.html

Try logging in, either to the app or online banking, then launch your application from there.

I'm not an existing customer, used the New to Halifax link...

Ah, apologies. Are you a Bank of Scotland customer by any chance? I remember having this issue when I tried to sign up for a savings account with Bank of Scotland as an existing Halifax (but not Bank of Scotland) customer.

Kim_13

Emily_Joy said:

Stafford Railway BS RS issue 1

Currently pays 5.15, at the moment there appears to be no postcode requirements. Opened one on Sunday, application went through, received an email saying the account has been added on Monday, with no instructions how to fund. Yesterday received yet another email saying the account has been added to my online profile. Still no idea how to add money to it. Send a secure message (via online system) asking for funding instructions - no reply. But it looks like indeed I now have *two* RS issue 1 with zero balance and no clue how to add money to any of them!

I received similar messages but only one account - it seems you get one message when they accept your application and open the account and another when they add that account to their online portal.

I didn't pay in until I received the passbook in the post, which came with a letter clearly explaining how to pay in, so I didn't have to go hunting for the details. It arrived quite quickly as well, so the new tax year / RM taking longer than at the time I applied (August 2022) are probably behind then taking longer in your case. 

savethepandas

ThePirates said:

Trying to open a Halifax Regular Saver 5.5% from the link on the front page but my application always 'Something has gone wrong with your application. Please visit one of our branches to apply for this account.'
Does anyone know if this account is still available?
https://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/fixed-term/regular-saver.html

Opened one on Monday, as an existing customer

allegro120

ThePirates said:

WillPS said:

ThePirates said:

Trying to open a Halifax Regular Saver 5.5% from the link on the front page but my application always 'Something has gone wrong with your application. Please visit one of our branches to apply for this account.'
Does anyone know if this account is still available?
https://www.halifax.co.uk/savings/fixed-term/regular-saver.html

Try logging in, either to the app or online banking, then launch your application from there.

I'm not an existing customer, used the New to Halifax link...

You don't have to be an existing customer to open this account.  It is more likely to be a glitch.  Try again later and it will probably work or you can open it by calling them.  I don't think visiting branch is necessary unless they have problems with ID or something like this.

jameseonline

I thought Stafford (Railway) Building Society was only available to certain people, don't they put it as private individuals or something?.🤔

I'm sure MSE featured it very briefly and then took it off.

Think it might have been (or still is) postcode restricted too

jameseonline

pecunianonolet said:

Coop Reg Saver

My funding window was yesterday 9th April (30 days from opening). Moved £1 into my Cashminder account and noticed there is no internal transfer option so made a normal payment using account number and sort code. Transaction went into pending and when checked this morning it was executed but the date of credit is shown as today. 

Have I missed anything? 

I have CO OP Current Account and can send from that into the Regular Savings account on the app, not sure why you don't have the option 

saverbynature

gwapenut said:

But because Royal Mail defrauded me by getting me to oay for a signed for, tracked service but providing a normal first class service, I would have to use expensive Special Delivery for high value passbooks in future. I chose signed-for in this case because I also sent a high value passbook for another account.

I've now closed all my accounts with them. Not because they are a bad building society, but because Royal Mail make most transactions stressful, and not just on this last occasion. eg SRBS claimed change of address forms and ID I posted last November had not arrived for a period of 2-3 weeks, and then eventually they did arrive. Whether SRBS or Royal Mail were at fault, I don't know, but the two are inseparable for how I would need to operate their accounts.So

@gwapenut As Royal Mail did not provide the service you paid for I would lodge a complaint on the Royal Mail website: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/307/~/im-a-personal-customer,-how-do-i-make-a-complaint?

I filed a complaint last Thursday after finding out that a card I had sent first class on Wednesday March 27th had not been delivered until the following Wednesday so it had taken 4 working days given that Good Friday and Easter Monday were bank holidays for a service that is meant to be delivered in 1-2 working days. I wasn't expecting anything to come out of complaining but today I have received a letter apologising for their "service failure" and enclosing a book of 8 1st class stamps!