Do joint account debit cards say so on them

WillPS

eskbanker said:

WillPS said:

NatWest Group will apply a card narrative of your chosing to any debit card, we use this to differentiate our joint accounts:

Attaching brightly-coloured Post-Its can also be effective

I wouldn't recommend it, they wouldn't withstand much wallet action.

EarthBoy

Write "joint" or "solo" on the signature strip. 

Nasqueron

Rob5342 said:

born_again said:

eskbanker said:

born_again said:

j813ys said:

Or are they a carbon copy of your other single account?

I can't be having to read the numbers to distinguish between 2 of the same card at the till so may need to use another bank?

Cards have to have a different number, or if one needs stopping it is not possible. As they are stopped by card number.

The question is why do you have both cards from a joint account? Each party should carry their own.

Presumably OP's point is that they wish to carry one card from their sole account and (their own) one from the joint account, not two from the latter?

Who knows, as not really clear.

Pretty common that banks use the same colour cards for bank accounts.

It's pretty obvious that that is what they meant. Someone elses card will have a different name on making it easoly distinguishable. 

I kinda get what born_again is saying though, I have a starling account and joint account, both have my name on them, same card colour etc, just one says joint on it. As it happens I don't use the account as my banking is elsewhere so the card is not in my wallet or phone but it could be mixed up on google pay for example if you are switching between the cards before paying and you don't look carefully.

boingy

Somewhat sadly, I used to tell the difference between my sole/joint cards by learning the card number of the sole card! These days I'd just write a small "J" on the joint one with a Sharpie if I needed to. However, I no longer carry the joint debit card, just a joint credit card.

WillPS

boingy said:

 joint credit card.

[pedantry] No such thing in the UK. [/pedantry]

flo22

You can request what the card has on it in the name field e.g. Mrs J Smith on one and Jane Smith on another.  Obviously it has to be your name but varying how it is written just has to be requested