Santander Amazon opening offer x2

FUrake

harz99 said:

FUrake said:

Opened my account a week ago yesterday and still not received the debit card, seems like a long time, anyone else's take this long?

11 days, they do say 7-10 working days. 

yeh, received it today thankfully! 

mr_accountant

I applied 4/11/25, accepted and opened 5/11/25, card and pin arrived 13/11, great fraud prevention that, therefore waiting 7 working day seems about right, obviously santander card being printed in the same room as cahoot bank savings account ID letter and password 🙄

FUrake

have completed 32 transactions now, 17 with google pay and 15 with the actual debit card, hopefully there is no issues using google pay

sheffieldeagle

FUrake said:

have completed 32 transactions now, 17 with google pay and 15 with the actual debit card, hopefully there is no issues using google pay

If there is I'm sure there will be plenty of complaints directed at Santander from the forum but seems highly unlikely to be honest.

FUrake

sheffieldeagle said:

FUrake said:

have completed 32 transactions now, 17 with google pay and 15 with the actual debit card, hopefully there is no issues using google pay

If there is I'm sure there will be plenty of complaints directed at Santander from the forum but seems highly unlikely to be honest.

Yeh agreed 

harz99

FUrake said:

have completed 32 transactions now, 17 with google pay and 15 with the actual debit card, hopefully there is no issues using google pay

I'm up to 41 transactions now, but all old school card at shop/pub/station etc. Just waiting until a few days before the first Edge statement date, then it'll be back to a cashback or points credit card as I don't like using our main bank account for everyday purchases.

onlyalex

Done 40 transactions just to be safe, will probably do a few more over the next few months but for now will go back to using my main bank account. I noticed Apple Pay was tagged differently to card which says 'purchase' so I made sure I did all my shopping by using contactless or the physical card. I note that I did have a Santander account back in 2022 but I did get a different Santander OLA reference so fingers crossed I'll be okay. 

trickydicky14

onlyalex said:

Done 40 transactions just to be safe, will probably do a few more over the next few months but for now will go back to using my main bank account. I noticed Apple Pay was tagged differently to card which says 'purchase' so I made sure I did all my shopping by using contactless or the physical card. I note that I did have a Santander account back in 2022 but I did get a different Santander OLA reference so fingers crossed I'll be okay. 

Why do you feel the need to make 40 transactions to be safe? The T&C's clearly state you only need to make 30.

CaptainFrugal

I’m making sure I focus on normal day-to-day spending (supermarkets, etc) and I’m spreading the purchases across different vendors over several weeks.

I’m actually very confident that Apple Pay is fine for this:

1. When a payment clears, the app explicitly shows “Associated card: DEBIT CARD -*XXXX” on the transaction. If I used it in a physical shop, there’s no realistic argument that it wasn’t a genuine purchase.

2. When Santander gave 1% cashback on the Edge account for debit card spending, I always used Apple Pay and the cashback tracked perfectly.

Just my take.

onlyalex

trickydicky14 said:

onlyalex said:

Done 40 transactions just to be safe, will probably do a few more over the next few months but for now will go back to using my main bank account. I noticed Apple Pay was tagged differently to card which says 'purchase' so I made sure I did all my shopping by using contactless or the physical card. I note that I did have a Santander account back in 2022 but I did get a different Santander OLA reference so fingers crossed I'll be okay. 

Why do you feel the need to make 40 transactions to be safe? The T&C's clearly state you only need to make 30.

Because some of the transactions were showing as Apple Pay instead of Purchase and I have received a few refunds on some transactions, so wanted to be safe. I know the T&Cs clearly state that I only need to make 30 transactions, but it doesn't mention anything about Apple Pay.