Opinions of Starling Bank for a Business Account?
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Since starting my ltd company, we’ve been using Santander for our business account. No major issues but I started looking round for a new bank around a year ago because the old Santander mobile banking app was so outdated and you couldn’t see full details of payments coming in/out. At the time, I opened a Starling account but never really used it.
A year on and the Santander app still doesn’t have notifications when you receive/send payments so I’m starting to consider switching to Starling as our main account.
Does anyone here use Starling as their main bank? Any opinions? Anyone that doesn’t like Starling and if so, why?
A year on and the Santander app still doesn’t have notifications when you receive/send payments so I’m starting to consider switching to Starling as our main account.
Does anyone here use Starling as their main bank? Any opinions? Anyone that doesn’t like Starling and if so, why?
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I can't help re Starling but I use Santander for business banking. Maybe it's different on the mobile app, but on a PC Santander show payments arriving and leaving the account. Each item is listed by date with a column for credits and another for debits.Do you want to receive a text every time there's a transaction? It doesn't do that and it's not a worry for me as I can just log in to the account to see what is happening.0
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martindow said:I can't help re Starling but I use Santander for business banking. Maybe it's different on the mobile app, but on a PC Santander show payments arriving and leaving the account. Each item is listed by date with a column for credits and another for debits.Do you want to receive a text every time there's a transaction? It doesn't do that and it's not a worry for me as I can just log in to the account to see what is happening.As I said, when I started to look at alternatives over a year ago, the Santander mobile app didn’t even show you full details of the payments. You also couldn’t set up a new payee on the app (could only make payments to existing payees etc) so was really limiting. That at least has been fixed since they came out with their new business banking mobile app.0
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I use Starling for my business account (I'm a sole trader) and had no issues whatsoever in the nearly 3 years to date. I get push notifications every time money comes in or out and never had any problems doing what I need in the app.
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SensibleSarah said:I use Starling for my business account (I'm a sole trader) and had no issues whatsoever in the nearly 3 years to date. I get push notifications every time money comes in or out and never had any problems doing what I need in the app.
Ditto here with our Ltd Co
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I don’t know about Starling, but I use Mettle by NatWest for my limited company and get notifications every time I receive funds into the account, make a payment from the account, or use the account debit card.I find it useful to be alerted when customers pay invoices so I can send them a prompt receipt.0
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I use starling for my ltd company and it’s great - notifications. You can use their pots and free business banking
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