Paying a cheque in via online banking!!!

[cjt110]

I am very impressed to discover that in today's modern age, you can pay a cheque in (HSBC) via the mobile banking app.

No trudging into town to pay it in as all the mini branches have been closed down. Instructions here

Unsure if other banks offer this service but how awesome!

Wish I'd known about this a few weeks ago, apparently Barclays accept them online too. Could've saved myself a trip into town!

Just remember that if you bank via an app, that you need to hold on to the cheque until you are sure that it hasn't been rejected. Yes... This definitely.

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Its very clever. You can also pay the cheques in physically at the post office.

As in, you can pay HSBC cheques in at the post office

user1981287 YY but it takes the usual 3-5 days I think?

That's handy.... elderly rellies send me cheques for my kids' birthdays... but I'm in France so I have to remember to take the cheques back to theUK to pay them in: this could save me a lot of hassle.

That's fantastic - I'd never even thought that could be an option. I've got two cheques that I've been meaning to pay in for ages so will have go with the ap

Just looked up Lloyds and it is the same, clears at the end of the next working day if paid in via mobile phone.

Post Office credit it to your account the following day and I think it still takes the usual clearance time. Still easier than driving to the bank though.

I have posted cheques to my bank for years prior to the post office.

Thanks OPO I didn't know this, so I'll see if my bank does it too.

I find it almost as convenient to use the free service offered by a local sub-post office (I bank with Santander). I just need a paying in slip (at the back of the chequebook) and their special envelopes (which Santander sends out for free).

I hope it does work for businesses too as DH runs a company that banks with HSBC and its a nightmare receiving cheques as he sorts all the money and it a case of having time to do the 2 hour round trip to the bank to cash the bloody things!

@cjt110 thanks but nearest post office is by the nearest NatWest branch. Not far but down a very steep hill and I'm grouchy about being very pregnant and not as fit and mobile as I'm used to being

I need to find out whether or not Nationwide do this. I am intrigued now.

@Topseyt I don't think the do looking at this

Makes me seriously tempted to open an HSBC account just for that feature! I'm with rbs and while I rarely get cheques they're a complete pain in the arse to pay in, have to drive to the mobile banking van that stops for 20mins once a week, about a 30 minute drive from me!

Do it. TBH, I only have my HSBC account because it links to our joint account and I cant be arsed changing my pay details. I use Monzo 99% of the time.

Barclays do this too, up to 4 a week apparently not that I have used it.

How useful! My DS always gets a cheque from his great-aunt at Christmas and it always takes us weeks if not months to pay it in because we both work long hours nowhere near a bank.

This is a new thing in the UK? I thought y'all were ahead of us US luddites in banking technology.

Barclays do this.
Gunpowder Barclays do it for business too.