Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

Bridlington1

FIREmenow said:

Secure trust bank
Access account (issue 11) NLA
Rate reducing from 5.1 to 4.9% AER from 22 July.
Just had email.

Useful info but would probably be better placed in the Top Easy Access Savings Discussion Area

dcs34

Progressive BS Online Rainy Day Saver
Anyone managed to add a nominated account? I assume this will be necessary for withdrawals. Of course their slightly dodgy IT system doesn't like hyphens in the name fields, so this is presumably the cause of the bank account check failing...

masonic

dcs34 said:

Progressive BS Online Rainy Day Saver
Anyone managed to add a nominated account? I assume this will be necessary for withdrawals. Of course their slightly dodgy IT system doesn't like hyphens in the name fields, so this is presumably the cause of the bank account check failing...

No issue here, but I don't have a hyphenated name.

Bigwheels1111

dcs34 said:

Progressive BS Online Rainy Day Saver
Anyone managed to add a nominated account? I assume this will be necessary for withdrawals. Of course their slightly dodgy IT system doesn't like hyphens in the name fields, so this is presumably the cause of the bank account check failing...

I'm all logged in, there is no buttom to do this.

It might take a day or two to turn up being its a new account.

I found this info.

You can change your linked bank account for each of your Progressive savings' accounts from your home screen using the "Edit Linked Bank Account" button. For security reasons, when you make this change, you will be unable to withdraw or close your account for 7 days.  You can still withdraw funds and deposit into your account in one of our branches.

dcs34

Bigwheels1111 said:

dcs34 said:

Progressive BS Online Rainy Day Saver
Anyone managed to add a nominated account? I assume this will be necessary for withdrawals. Of course their slightly dodgy IT system doesn't like hyphens in the name fields, so this is presumably the cause of the bank account check failing...

I'm all logged in, there is no buttom to do this.

It might take a day or two to turn up being its a new account.

I found this info.

You can change your linked bank account for each of your Progressive savings' accounts from your home screen using the "Edit Linked Bank Account" button. For security reasons, when you make this change, you will be unable to withdraw or close your account for 7 days.  You can still withdraw funds and deposit into your account in one of our branches.

My button appears in the right hand corner of the grey box where the account is shown.

csw5780

Bigwheels1111 said:

dcs34 said:

Progressive BS Online Rainy Day Saver
Anyone managed to add a nominated account? I assume this will be necessary for withdrawals. Of course their slightly dodgy IT system doesn't like hyphens in the name fields, so this is presumably the cause of the bank account check failing...

I'm all logged in, there is no buttom to do this.

It might take a day or two to turn up being its a new account.

I found this info.

You can change your linked bank account for each of your Progressive savings' accounts from your home screen using the "Edit Linked Bank Account" button. For security reasons, when you make this change, you will be unable to withdraw or close your account for 7 days.  You can still withdraw funds and deposit into your account in one of our branches.

It only shows up after you make a credit. 

Gers

Progressive - I've struggled to add my nominated account so phoned their online support team. Seems that the don't have many of the UK (and in my case Scottish) banks set up on their system. The very helpful agent said she'd add in my sort code.  I think that they are very busy after this account was posted here!

RosieRooBear

Progressive - opened the 7% regular saver yesterday evening. Account opened but reference number showing as pending. Thought it would update overnight but it didn’t. Phoned them & agent couldn’t understand it so said would look into it, she did say they are having problems with their IT system and are very busy with calls. Unable to make a payment in until I have the reference number as chose to do a bank transfer rather then paying by debit card. I did suggest that I cancel the application and start again but was advised not to due to the difficulties they are having. Will wait and see how long it takes to sort and when I get a call back.

savethepandas

Bigwheels1111 said:

Thanks all.
I think I will wait until tomorrow.
Give them a call.

I used business on Santander, and got unknown reference. Used it anyway with £20 (their minimum), it wasn't showing up yesterday evening. Checked their site shows 'transactions work 09:00-17:00'. I added after that, but all fine today 

FishInGlass

FishInGlass said:

csw5780 said:

londoner62 said:

Not sure if this 7% variable has been noted yet. https://theprogressive.com/savings/online-savings/online-regular-rainy-day-saver-account

The NI resident restriction seems to have gone:
“The account is available to existing Members and new customers resident in the UK, aged 18 or over.”

@Special_Saver2

Anyone outside NI been able to register for the account yet.

All I get is the following

We are sorry an error has occurred. Please contact our Online Support Team on 0800 0294 997 for assistance or Submit an Enquiry and we’ll get back to you within 2 business days.

Spoke to a very nice lady after I missed a call back this morning. Apparently having tried to register an account first on my mobile and then via Firefox and finally Chrome on my desktop I now have 3 partial registrations on the system. Unfortunately all the managers were in a meeting but she said would see what she could do at the back end and get back to me later in the day or Monday. Methinks they would have saved themselves some pain if it was explicitly stated that you needed to open an account either via a laptop or desktop.