Halifax Reward Account changing to £3 charge with “lifestyle rewards”

polymaff

Uglymug said:

Could someone please tell me where to find this “Track Your Reward extras” link.?
It does not seem to appear anywhere on my account, I applied for the £5.00 reward about 4 weeks ago and hopefully set things up to meet all the criteria.
Many thanks in advance.

If you are a desktop user:

On the home page, click My Current Account Options on the left.

Uglymug

polymaff said:

Uglymug said:

Could someone please tell me where to find this “Track Your Reward extras” link.?
It does not seem to appear anywhere on my account, I applied for the £5.00 reward about 4 weeks ago and hopefully set things up to meet all the criteria.
Many thanks in advance.

If you are a desktop user:

On the home page, click My Current Account Options on the left.

Found it - you're a star.

OceanSound

Ed-1 said:

OceanSound said:

Second reward account opened around 21st June. Did £1500 pay-in straight afterwards. Received debit card on 29th June. Made a payment for around £230 on 29th June, then next day (30th June) made a payment for £280. Tracker does take a couple of days to update. So, yesterday when I checked tracker, it said the £500 pay-in was not satisfied for that account. When I check today it says £500 pay-in satisfied. Seems tracker is using transaction processed date as opposed to transaction date. Anyone wanna hazard a guess if the reward will be paid for June. 

Don't tell me it says somewhere that the transaction processed date is what counts. 

Cash withdrawals from cash machines, branches or Post Office® counters and payments that are disputed will not count towards the £500. We will also only include payments taken out from your account by the last day of the month.
https://static.halifax.co.uk/assets/pdf/bankaccounts/Banking-Offers-Guide.pdf

Thanks. That makes sense. Payment was a debit card payment, so money was taken out of my account immediately.

A special thanks for posting the relevant bit and a link to it, so it's not just another biased opinion.

LittleVoice

OceanSound said:

Ed-1 said:

OceanSound said:

Second reward account opened around 21st June. Did £1500 pay-in straight afterwards. Received debit card on 29th June. Made a payment for around £230 on 29th June, then next day (30th June) made a payment for £280. Tracker does take a couple of days to update. So, yesterday when I checked tracker, it said the £500 pay-in was not satisfied for that account. When I check today it says £500 pay-in satisfied. Seems tracker is using transaction processed date as opposed to transaction date. Anyone wanna hazard a guess if the reward will be paid for June. 

Don't tell me it says somewhere that the transaction processed date is what counts. 

Cash withdrawals from cash machines, branches or Post Office® counters and payments that are disputed will not count towards the £500. We will also only include payments taken out from your account by the last day of the month.
https://static.halifax.co.uk/assets/pdf/bankaccounts/Banking-Offers-Guide.pdf

Thanks. That makes sense. Payment was a debit card payment, so money was taken out of my account immediately.

A special thanks for posting the relevant bit and a link to it, so it's not just another biased opinion.

Why is that a "so"? 
I'm not using the DC spend to qualify for a reward but sometimes use my Lloyds DC to pay for postage in a PO.  The amount will show as pending online but not be shown on the statement until later, indicating the transaction date (when used in the PO) and the date it was taken from the account (at least one day later).  Does Halifax operate differently?

badger09

Uglymug said:

MDMD said:

I get a “Something’s gone wrong” error when I click on the “Track Your Reward extras” link.

Hopefully they are rolling it over for July tonight to pay the £5 tomorrow.

Could someone please tell me where to find this “Track Your Reward extras” link.?
It does not seem to appear anywhere on my account, I applied for the £5.00 reward about 4 weeks ago and hopefully set things up to meet all the criteria.
Many thanks in advance.

polymaff said:

Uglymug said:

Could someone please tell me where to find this “Track Your Reward extras” link.?
It does not seem to appear anywhere on my account, I applied for the £5.00 reward about 4 weeks ago and hopefully set things up to meet all the criteria.
Many thanks in advance.

If you are a desktop user:

On the home page, click My Current Account Options on the left.

If you're an app user, click on the Reward Account, then on 3 dot menu (top right).

If you've read this thread though, you'll know the Tracker takes several days to update.

Ed-1

jeepjunkie said:

Ed-1 said:

Mosler said:

Does it allow more than 3 sole Reward accounts, each with Reward Extras on?

Yes... many many many more. 

On the Halifax website it says. Up to 2 rewards accounts, One account must be in your sole name and one in joint names.

They are the terms and conditions but the IT certainly doesn't enforce them. You can open up to 3 directly applying for Reward Accounts but it has been previously explicitly hinted on this thread (when talking about them changing to Current Accounts) how to go about getting more. You can get up to 10 sole Reward Accounts fairly easily this way but there are even ways to exceed that. However we're now getting into Halifax Reward Magic Circle...

Ed-1

jeepjunkie said:

Ed-1 said:

jeepjunkie said:

Ed-1 said:

Mosler said:

Does it allow more than 3 sole Reward accounts, each with Reward Extras on?

Yes... many many many more. 

On the Halifax website it says. Up to 2 rewards accounts, One account must be in your sole name and one in joint names.

They are the terms and conditions but the IT certainly doesn't enforce them. You can open up to 3 directly applying for Reward Accounts but it has been previously explicitly hinted on this thread (when talking about them changing to Current Accounts) how to go about getting more. You can get up to 10 sole Reward Accounts fairly easily this way but there are even ways to exceed that. However we're now getting into Halifax Reward Magic Circle...

Ok, lol, brilliant

Actually meeting the debit card conditions on such a number of accounts is a different ball game though...

veryintrigued

Looking at this thread you wonder how many questions Halifax have had/will have on this account.

OceanSound

LittleVoice said:

OceanSound said:

Ed-1 said:

OceanSound said:

Second reward account opened around 21st June. Did £1500 pay-in straight afterwards. Received debit card on 29th June. Made a payment for around £230 on 29th June, then next day (30th June) made a payment for £280. Tracker does take a couple of days to update. So, yesterday when I checked tracker, it said the £500 pay-in was not satisfied for that account. When I check today it says £500 pay-in satisfied. Seems tracker is using transaction processed date as opposed to transaction date. Anyone wanna hazard a guess if the reward will be paid for June. 

Don't tell me it says somewhere that the transaction processed date is what counts. 

Cash withdrawals from cash machines, branches or Post Office® counters and payments that are disputed will not count towards the £500. We will also only include payments taken out from your account by the last day of the month.
https://static.halifax.co.uk/assets/pdf/bankaccounts/Banking-Offers-Guide.pdf

Thanks. That makes sense. Payment was a debit card payment, so money was taken out of my account immediately.

A special thanks for posting the relevant bit and a link to it, so it's not just another biased opinion.

Why is that a "so"? 
I'm not using the DC spend to qualify for a reward but sometimes use my Lloyds DC to pay for postage in a PO.  The amount will show as pending online but not be shown on the statement until later, indicating the transaction date (when used in the PO) and the date it was taken from the account (at least one day later).  Does Halifax operate differently?

'So' as in it wasn't paid using a credit card (which operate differently).

[Deleted User]

After reading all this I decided to open a reward account. 
I have been stopped by the fraud team on my first transfer out of the account !