to ask if you can search your bank statements online ?

[cumfy]

I'm trying to search what payments I've made to a particular company in the last couple of years. I was expecting to be able to just search on their name; but not so, just have to trawl back month by month.

I'm with HSBC .
Do you bank with someone who offers online statement search ?

[chrismissymoomoomee]

I would have to trawl through all mine. Have you tried calling, they may be able to do it on their computer system.

[cumfy]

Could call them, but I was just really surprised to find that there wasn't a search facility.

Is this still normal ?

[RandallPinkFloyd]

What do you mean by a search facility.

Do you mean a search for payments by entering a payee's name?

[forevergreek]

You can search by month or date on mine. Do you know the rough month at least?

[cheekybaubles]

Can't understand why you can't access your past payments?

Have you gone into the section where you set up payments and clicked on recipients already set up?

I have a few friends that work for that bank if you want me to ask them for you?

[cumfy]

Yes Randall, just want to type eg. "amazon", "waitrose" and get an ordered list of all payments to them in last 6 months, year.

[fuzzywuzzy]

I can search mine by word or date, but only three months at a time. I would be seriously ticked off if I couldn't.

[cumfy]

Cheeky, I can go through my statements month by month.

[cumfy]

Fuzzy which bank are you with ?

[cheekybaubles]

Yes, but what happens when you go into the section where you set up a recipient or standing order? Do you not get a list of companies and people?

[SquirtedFrankinScentsInStable]

download them into excel and search there.

[cumfy]

Cheeky, it's not a standing order.

[GoldQuintessenceAndMyhrr]

Ah, DnbNor in Norway are great, you can search for Payees, time period, everything.

[cumfy]

Squirted, is that definitely available with HSBC ?

[spoonsspoonsspoons]

I can - Natwest.

[RandallPinkFloyd]

Can't with HSBC and as far as I'm aware they can't either.
It's just a case of looking through stx sorry.

[cumfy]

Better setup a DnbNor acct then.

[SquirtedFrankinScentsInStable]

sorry cumfy. dont know. thought they all did it.

[emma123456]

Can download into a csv file, save jn excel and search away! You can definitely do this with HSBC.

[ChocHobNob]

Yes, on Natwest, although they've recently changed their site and I found it more difficult to find the facility.

[TeamBacon]

Yes I can, for the last 10 years. Was v useful when looking up credit card payments for a PPI claim.

[fuzzywuzzy]

cumfy I bank with Lloyds tsb

[InsertCleverNameChangeHere]

DP has this facility with Ulster Bank, I believe all divisions of RBS use the same online system so perhaps that would be a good option for you

[Jins]

I don't think you can with HSBC but I think you can download transactions in spreadsheet format and sort them from there

[zoobaby]

HSBC lets you download the PDF file. Just do a word search in the files (one by one alas). Usually it's on the toolbar at the top or press CTRL+F to get the dialogue box up. Or maybe the new-fandangled search facility in Windows 7 might find it for you?