Amazon Barclaycard Statement Date

blue.peter

Is there any straightforward way of knowing when Barclaycard statement periods end before the statement is generated?

When I got my card, I wanted to change the statement date, because the random date that Barclaycard set was slightly inconvenient. However, I discovered that they don't operate a fixed statement date + variable payment due date as, IME, most others do. Rather, they operate a fixed payment date and variable statement date system. I had to set my payment date to the 14th, and (allowing for the statement to be 25 days before that) hope that my statements would be based on a period ending around the 19th of the previous month.

So, for October, I'd have expected my statement period to have ended yesterday-ish for a payment due date of 14 November. But if I look at my account, either in the app or via Barclays Online Banking, I don't see any indication of the ending of a statement period. Indeed, I can see an unbroken string of transactions going back past my last statement, to the day I first used the card. I'd find it helpful to know for sure whether or not a transaction made tomorrow will be due for settlement in November or December. Of course, I can always use a different card and be certain, but that'd lose me the 1% cashback.

km1500

this also happens to me I think they allow an extra month or seem to so whenever you think your statement data is due at a month onto that I am the same as you I have a string that transactions going back to goodness knows when because I changed the payment date

Nebulous2

If it is the same as the other Barclaycards, then the statement date is a fixed working day in the month. I'm right at the beginning of the month, so have very little variation. As the month goes on the variation grows. 

So for example - if your card is produced on the 5th working day of the month, it would be November the 7th, then December the 6th. 

It's possible for transactions made on the day of your statement to appear on it, as it may not be produced until 2 days or so after the statement date. 

That's assuming the processes for this new card replicate those that they use elsewhere. 

blue.peter

I gave up in the end, and used the chat facility in the app. I got lucky, and landed a helpful person on the other end. She* told me that I was right: the statement was made up on Saturday , so transactions from Sunday onwards will be on my November statement. This means that my counting of 14 November minus 25 days was spot on. As you say, they do create a very long statement period if you change the date. Mine's from 6 September to 19 October, during which time I spent a whole year's clothing budget. I'll have a huge DD payment taken on 14 November!

Oh, and they're not quick to generate the actual statement. They don't produce them at the weekend, and then they take up to 48 hours to appear. I was told not to expect mine to be available until tomorrow. In the event, I suppose I was lucky: it's there today.

*I assume. "Nikki" looks feminine to me. I could be wrong, of course, in which case I'll be happy to apologise.

Nasqueron

Barclays statements do tend to take a few days to appear, I used to get an email about it and it'd be online but not in the app until a day or two later. For the first time since I had the card, Lloyds did my statement on the 19th (Saturday) rather than the first working day after which was a bit different

blue.peter

Nasqueron said:

Barclays statements do tend to take a few days to appear, I used to get an email about it and it'd be online but not in the app until a day or two later.

I downloaded my Barclaycard statement at about 07:30, and then received a text message (no e-mail) telling me that it was available at (I think) about 09:30. I deleted it immediately, so I'm relying on my rather vague memory of its arrival time.

I downloaded the statement via my web browser (much more convenient than via the app). I don't know when it appeared in the app, but it's there now (10:30), so certainly better than "a day or two later".

Nasqueron

blue.peter said:

Nasqueron said:

Barclays statements do tend to take a few days to appear, I used to get an email about it and it'd be online but not in the app until a day or two later.

I downloaded my Barclaycard statement at about 07:30, and then received a text message (no e-mail) telling me that it was available at (I think) about 09:30. I deleted it immediately, so I'm relying on my rather vague memory of its arrival time.

I downloaded the statement via my web browser (much more convenient than via the app). I don't know when it appeared in the app, but it's there now (10:30), so certainly better than "a day or two later".

In the app it was always a day later minimum after the email - I would go into the app after the email and no statement, then would appear the next day but I think on the website it would be but I never use that. For whatever reason now they have stopped sending me emails about statements