Email notifications

david_navigator

Up until last Thursday my John Lewis (NewDay)  credit card sent me an email after every transaction with the payee and amount. Unfortunately "In the interest of security" they've changed this to only send a notification on transactions over £100.
This feature was critical for me.
Does anyone know of an alternative provider that offers this service please?
Thanks
David

JamesPeter

david_navigator said:

Up until last Thursday my John Lewis (NewDay)  credit card sent me an email after every transaction with the payee and amount. Unfortunately "In the interest of security" they've changed this to only send a notification on transactions over £100.
This feature was critical for me.
Does anyone know of an alternative provider that offers this service please?
Thanks
David

Not e-mail, but Natwest send a screen message to my mobile phone every time my credit card is used, mostly within seconds of the transaction (and no matter the value of the transaction).

safe_hands2

Amex send a notification for every transaction.

molerat

This feature was critical for me.

Not all transactions will go through authorisation so there may be some where you would not get a notification.

david_navigator

Thanks. I really want an email rather than on screen notification as I can easily forward the email to my wife who logs everything in our household finance software.

lr1277

I typed into Google: UK credit card email notifications.

I got a number of results back including Barclaycard and Santander.

ThisMSE thread was also returned with suggestions:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396624/credit-card-with-instant-notifications

Though I don't know if all those notifications listed in the thread are by email.

So some starting points for your search.

Also don't assume all banks in the same group prvide the same facilities. According to a posting in the linked thread, HSBC provide notifications of some description. However First Direct do not provide notifications as far as I can tell.

Nasqueron

Is there any reason why it's vital to update the finance software that very second given that presumably your wife isn't sat at the PC refreshing email constantly ready to put in the software? Could you not simply send her an email or a message on the phone stating the vendor and amount rather than forwarding an email?

born_again

TBH. Most will be moving to either push notifications or text. Given the cost of emails & not as easy to work round, given they may be held back.

prettyandfluffy

Nasqueron said:

Is there any reason why it's vital to update the finance software that very second given that presumably your wife isn't sat at the PC refreshing email constantly ready to put in the software? Could you not simply send her an email or a message on the phone stating the vendor and amount rather than forwarding an email?

Or just log in on a regular basis and check the account,

david_navigator

Thanks for the replies.
I've since discovered that this is a Mastercard issue - they have decided that notifications for less than £50 are a way to increase fraud (I've no idea how and they couldn't tell me either).

As to why I can't manually tell my wife what I spent & when - I think the time it's taken me to respond to the messages in this thread will answer that