Starling Bounce Back

beerme_2

So after jumping through all the hoops with Starling Bank, opening personal acct, then biz acct, waiting for cards, activating cards, filling in the forms, downloading & sending the 2 tax documents, they have rejected my application for BBL.
Got on live chat to ask why and they refused to tell me a nd gave a number to phone, but did tell me the decision is FINAL!
Where else can I go for a BBL without a biz acct with the provider?

jfinnie

Lady I spoke to at Starling today said that Ltd. company account (not loan!) applications are currently subject to around a 5 day processing queue.  
I'm only applying because my current business bank (Metrobank) haven't got their act together yet for OpenBanking feeds and so I've lost my FreeAgent integration.  So not related to BBLS but still significantly affected it seems.

jackroit

applied for a business account (ltd) not the loan, a few days ago. but still says checking the details... dos it takes usually faster?

jfinnie

jackroit said:

applied for a business account (ltd) not the loan, a few days ago. but still says checking the details... dos it takes usually faster?

Sounds like you're in the same boat as me.  I was told today to expect around 5 days.

stratty

Paid out this morning at 11am.
To summarise
Account application approved 24 hours
Bank card to arrive and activate 1 week
BBL application (Ltd) 5 days 

gt94sss2

Starling have introduced a waitlist for BBL applications 

https://twitter.com/StarlingBank/status/1263086072571015168?s=20

gizmo111

stratty said:

Paid out this morning at 11am.
To summarise
Account application approved 24 hours
Bank card to arrive and activate 1 week
BBL application (Ltd) 5 days 

Almost exactly the same timeline as me- except I got card in 4 days, approved early in day 5 and paid out same day, about 6 hours after I sent signed forms back.  Very relieved.

jackroit

stratty said:

Paid out this morning at 11am.
To summarise
Account application approved 24 hours
Bank card to arrive and activate 1 week
BBL application (Ltd) 5 days 

I'm still waiting around 3 days just they should check the details... to open an account 

jackroit

jfinnie said:

Lady I spoke to at Starling today said that Ltd. company account (not loan!) applications are currently subject to around a 5 day processing queue.  
I'm only applying because my current business bank (Metrobank) haven't got their act together yet for OpenBanking feeds and so I've lost my FreeAgent integration.  So not related to BBLS but still significantly affected it seems.

did they open your account after 5 days? as I'm still waiting 

jfinnie

jackroit said:

jfinnie said:

Lady I spoke to at Starling today said that Ltd. company account (not loan!) applications are currently subject to around a 5 day processing queue.  
I'm only applying because my current business bank (Metrobank) haven't got their act together yet for OpenBanking feeds and so I've lost my FreeAgent integration.  So not related to BBLS but still significantly affected it seems.

did they open your account after 5 days? as I'm still waiting 

Literally just approved my account, so about 4 days with the application having been created over the weekend. Pretty good going all things considered I guess.