TSB £200 switch offer July 2023

Yawn

Anyone else having problems applying? I get to the online banking details page, where they ask me to choose a username and password but I get the error "service unavailable". So I basically had to abandon the application, even though I had already been credit checked. 

WillPS

jbrassy said:

MikeJXE said:

PloughmansLunch said:

jbrassy said:

So I understand part of the deal is that if you make 5+ transactions on the debit card between September and February, you'll get an extra £75 cashback. This is a slightly pedantic question, but do these debit card transactions need to be made using the physical card, or can they be made using Apple Pay?

Apple Pay is fine, and PayPal is ok too as long it's debited via the card and not the current account.

Does Apple Pay even know the current account number ?

Why would that matter? 

One implies debit card transactions, the other implies direct debits or some other withdrawal type.

Mobile payments only do the former. PayPal can do either depending how you set it up.

MikeJXE

Apple Pay takes the 16 digit card number and thats how you pa

Account numbers are not taken by Apple in fact some cards don't have the account number on them 

Also an aside I did read somewhere the retailer doesn't even get the card number Apple converts it to a code of some sort and sends the code.  

SirHugo

Yawn said:

Anyone else having problems applying? I get to the online banking details page, where they ask me to choose a username and password but I get the error "service unavailable". So I basically had to abandon the application, even though I had already been credit checked. 

I just applied. Initially I used Firefox, got through the approval but then got a 'technical problem' error message, so couldn't complete the application.
Repeated it using Chrome and everything went through fine. Also Topcashback tracked fine with £20.

Wesker

Yawn said:

Anyone else having problems applying? I get to the online banking details page, where they ask me to choose a username and password but I get the error "service unavailable". So I basically had to abandon the application, even though I had already been credit checked. 

I applied about a week ago. Downloaded the app as was hoping to apply and set up switch in one go.
For some reason the app wouldn't accept my email address so ended up applying on the website.
Had to wait a few days for my activation code in the post so I could log into the app, but couldn't see how to start the switch process so ended up on the website again to start the switch.
Communication has been limited compared to other switches I have done but I did have an email confirming I'd completed the switch form. 
Trying to complete the 20 transactions a month for the extra fiver but proving a bit hard as haven't received my pin number for the card yet   

wiseonesomeofthetime

@Wesker If you have savings accounts with Yorkshire Building Society or Skipton Building Society (there will be others) you can make debit card deposits into them without the PIN.

I have done ten, over three days, to five accounts within those two, plus £10 to Revolut via Google Pay, which you can also set up without PIN.

Just an idea.

PixelPound

Wesker said:

Yawn said:

Anyone else having problems applying? I get to the online banking details page, where they ask me to choose a username and password but I get the error "service unavailable". So I basically had to abandon the application, even though I had already been credit checked. 

I applied about a week ago. Downloaded the app as was hoping to apply and set up switch in one go.
For some reason the app wouldn't accept my email address so ended up applying on the website.
Had to wait a few days for my activation code in the post so I could log into the app, but couldn't see how to start the switch process so ended up on the website again to start the switch.
Communication has been limited compared to other switches I have done but I did have an email confirming I'd completed the switch form. 
Trying to complete the 20 transactions a month for the extra fiver but proving a bit hard as haven't received my pin number for the card yet   

I added mine to google pay without pin and successfully used it to both pay and to top up my Chip account so far. Also done some transfers into my 2 YBS accounts. Not sure if multiple card uses at the same merchant might flag something.

On the switch you get the email confirming the form completed. I got a text from their switching team a couple of days later saying received switch and will contact when starting the switch.

PixelPound

How do you check how many qualifying debit card payments you done. 

On Halifax you have to spend £500 to get the £5 bonus, but the app tells you how far along you are. Can't see anything in the tsb app. 

flaneurs_lobster

nic_c said:

How do you check how many qualifying debit card payments you done. 

On Halifax you have to spend £500 to get the £5 bonus, but the app tells you how far along you are. Can't see anything in the tsb app. 

Look at transaction details online/app and count them.

wiseonesomeofthetime

nic_c said:

How do you check how many qualifying debit card payments you done. 

On Halifax you have to spend £500 to get the £5 bonus, but the app tells you how far along you are. Can't see anything in the tsb app. 

Thankfully, I can count to twenty, so I just look at my transaction feed and count them up. There are no other debit transactions on the feed, so far.

Post switch, there will be at least another three entries. One for the £500 deposit, and two for the direct debits. Most likely a fourth tbh, as I move the majority of that £500 back out