We’ve just made it easier for you to add money to your Booster pot.
Introducing Open Banking payments.
What’s new?
We’ve added a new Open Banking payment option for adding money to your Booster pot.
Please note that Open Banking is available for All iOS users right away. We’re rolling it for Android users these next couple of weeks and some Android users already should see the option in their app.
What is Open Banking?
Open Banking is a new regulation aimed at putting you in control of your own transaction data. It forces banks to ‘talk’ to one another to make transferring money between accounts easier for the end user.
At Tymit, we are rolling out a type of Open Banking called PIS (Payment Initiation Service), which allows you to make bank transfers without having to copy and paste account details/sort codes. You simply need to approve the transaction in the banking app you’re making the transfer from.
Is Open Banking better for adding money than using traditional bank transfers?
Yes! Open Banking payments are:
Instant.
Safer. The risk of fraud is much lower because you have to approve the transaction in Tymit’s app and also in your other banking app
Easier. No more copy and pasting account numbers and sort codes
How do I add funds to my Booster pot using Open Banking?
Click ‘connect with my bank’ at the bottom of this screen, which will take you to your bank’s app.
In your other bank’s app you will see some instructions to approve the transaction. After you have approved the transaction, you will come back into the Tymit app. You should then see your funds in your Booster pot!
Meanwhile here I am with the same Android app that doesn’t work properly.
It needs opened and force closed twice to show any information, asks me to choose a plan for purchases that are already paid in full, instant notifications only sometimes show when it feels like it, most months my bill payments don’t show (last bill payment showing is June last year) and still no statement downloads or anything else promised in the last year apart from Google Pay.
Well done on being able to collect cash more efficiently though, good job
Can’t say I’m jumping up and down either. I really think the banking industry has oversold ‘open banking’. It seems very sexy to them, but whenever they hype up ‘the next big thing’ I know to take it with a truckload of salt these days.
I can happily do without it, especially if it means companies like Tymit would spend the time fixing issues their customers really care about.
That’s who Trading 212 use as well for payments. Got the integration with Starling Bank but @jase do you know why I have 2 integrations? One says TrueLayer and the other says pay with TrueLayer. Any idea why 2 separate integrations and not just one?
That makes sense. A service called Confirmation of Payee runs over the open banking network and they could have just used that authorisation.
A strange way of doing it as there shouldn’t be a need to deauthorise but if you are worried the connections could be misused, you can always remove authorisation and re-authorise again to see how each one displays to work out which is which
I got an email advising that I could pay my Booster bill/account (not top up the deposit, actually pay the bill) through open banking. Went to look in the app and the option isn’t there. What’s happening?
Yeah this really needs to happen I can’t be that difficult to implement it most if not all card companies let you pay when you want without bank transfer…
hi @neilm1000, is it okay to contact you directly regarding this email as it doesn’t sound right to me. At the moment there is only option to add funds to your deposit via open banking for our Booster customers. Please let me know as I’d like to escalate this further.
