[Scottish Cleaning Service]

I think our days of free business banking is over. There is still a few about but I think that will change and all will eventually charge. I have gotten used to paying a fiver a month with the TSB but that may change, now it has been bought over. The banking industry has been in contraction mode since the internet and I think we will see more consolidation and more ways for them to make money. fwiw

[KS Cleaning]

Just another update from me…

Opened & then closed the Monzo account. They would only let me ise my name tradings as ‘company name’ which is a bit of a mouthful. I did a couple of test transfers from my other own accounts & becomes a problem with CoP (Confirmation of Payee) & just looks unprofessional imo. If i was going to do that I may as well use a free seperate personal account ffs!

So I opened a free Virgin business account. This works as I want with CoP using my company name. I don’t particularly like their website as you have to click on each individual transaction to copy &  paste the reference into Aworka. I’m trying to work out how much is just me getting used to change & how much is their poor website.

So I will hold fire for a while & hope Santander renege on their monthly charge before it comes in in October as they did once before in 2012. If they don’t though I will probably use the switching service to Virgin & get those new slips made up. My web/printer guy is on standby.

Do you have the 321 credit card with Santander? It costs £36 for the year but you get cashback when using the credit card. If you have highish expenditure you could then use the cashback to offset the monthly bank charges.

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Minsters 'to help smaller firms' by urging Santander to stop charging fees - LBC https://share.google/FwzYMVX0vqfDgslIa

[Simon Trapani]

Minsters 'to help smaller firms' by urging Santander to stop charging fees - LBC https://share.google/FwzYMVX0vqfDgslIa

Nice!🤞That’s why I’ve held fire for now.

[NBwcs]

Minsters 'to help smaller firms' by urging Santander to stop charging fees - LBC https://share.google/FwzYMVX0vqfDgslIa

I registered a complaint about what's happening (as a matter of principal) and was  promised a callback, that was over 2 weeks ago, and have heard nothing. I wouldn't hold your breath on them changing their minds again, I don't think they give a sh*t.

[Slacky]

They probably don’t. But then again if a customer cancels when you put their price up you don’t worry about it do you?

[NBwcs]

They probably don’t. But then again if a customer cancels when you put their price up you don’t worry about it do you?

I'd care enough to reply to any queries /complaints they had about it

[Scottish Cleaning Service]

I don't understand why business folk think it should be free? Like us, they provide a service and the service has to be paid for. We provide a service and we get paid, the moment we don't get paid we drop the customer. All Santander is doing is dropping customers who want a free service. That's my philosophy in business and works for me.

[Simon Trapani]

I don't understand why business folk think it should be free? Like us, they provide a service and the service has to be paid for. We provide a service and we get paid, the moment we don't get paid we drop the customer. All Santander is doing is dropping customers who want a free service. That's my philosophy in business and works for me.

It should be free because when I signed up they said ‘free for life’  & I aint dead yet!

[NBwcs]

I don't understand why business folk think it should be free? Like us, they provide a service and the service has to be paid for. We provide a service and we get paid, the moment we don't get paid we drop the customer. All Santander is doing is dropping customers who want a free service. That's my philosophy in business and works for me.

Santander made a promise of free banking for life. That's why alot of people are peed off. If you make extravagant statements then you have to back them up. They've renegaded on the deal.

[Simon Trapani]

‘Reneged’ 😉🤣👍

[NBwcs]

‘Reneged’ 😉🤣👍

Yeah, that too