Subject to approval, should be happening summer this year.

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Mollie to acquire GoCardless - Customer FAQs
What’s the news?

Mollie, one of Europe’s fastest-growing financial service providers, has announced an agreement to acquire GoCardless.

The acquisition unites two highly complementary platforms. GoCardless customers gain access to Mollie's strong local and card payments, whilst Mollie customers benefit from GoCardless's expertise in account-to-account payments, including open banking and a global direct debit network covering 38 countries. Together, we can serve a wider range of customers, in more markets, and continue to support them as you scale.

The deal is expected to close mid-2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

What will this mean for existing GoCardless customers?

There are no immediate changes for GoCardless customers. It’s business as usual with the same products, service and GoCardless contacts you know, and there is no action for you to take.

In the future, you’ll get access to a broader, more powerful payment offering all in one platform -- covering cards, local payment methods, open banking and more.

We’ll share updates as the integration progresses and new benefits become available. In the meantime, thank you for your continued trust in GoCardless.

Mine always has been the ones with the attitude of superiority - you're the flunky who should be grateful for the opportunity to work that they have provided for you. The middle aged ladies who don't work and have no concept of what it costs to run a business and provide a decent incom,  but apparently know what you should be charging. Usually happy to throw in "while you're there could you just...." too.
One last year asked me to clean their conservatory roof, I gave my price - which was low considering it was a glass one covered in algae. First words out were "well you saw me coming, didn't you?"
No I didn't, but that reply said all I needed to know. Quietly dumped and blocked.

They spend £25,000 on a conservatory and begrudge paying £100 to have the roof cleaned once a year.

Why are they called karens?

You’re a bit of a Karen 

Did you get any where with this henry?

Quote from: Scottish Cleaning Service on January 25, 2026, 11:05:16 am

Why are they called karens? Anyhow, this game is one of the strangest jobs I have every had. It's nothing like using the ladder and the squeegee because of the reach and speed of getting the job done. When I began using the pole I got nothing but hassle but only had 20 odd customers and every day would be a headache trying to change my customer's opinion on the method. Anyway, 6 years later the pendulum has swung totally from left to right and everyone is happy with the system because windows, pvc and conny's can be cleaned.

But the change in me came when I went over 100 monthly customers, I became the leader instead of the customer. I now have the confidence to walk away and not get involved with time vampires who like this month a new customer told me to skip because its going to rain later on in the day. She won't see me again and will need to find someone else. I also put half of my prices up a £1 and no one has cancelled yet but makes no difference with the amount of work coming in.

The best piece of advice I can give anyone having a Karen as a customer is don't get involved, just don't go back, if they contact you then just say you have a full book. Only wish I knew this years ago because it would have saved me alot of time.

Most of your jobs are £10 or £12 right? How on earth are you getting by if you’ve just hit 100 monthly customers?

No, I have one at £30 a month after their extension. I count care homes as one clean but they have plenty of houses (customers) in them, I could count every individual customer that pays me. One care home takes 45 min but I get a ton another pays £30 but takes less that 15mins. This month I picked up many different jobs like move a gutter down (£100) maybe need 7 new brackets. 3 jobs my customers want is too trim trees which I enjoy undertaking. A rich church wants me to fit a fire door and frame. I help my mate in his garage but he wanted me to fit a cooker and cut worktops for his nephew for free. Only took me an hour but he fitted a new hand brake cable on my van yesterday.

When one has many skills and plenty of mates who work for themselves then we all help each other, I have to fit a new lock for one who owns by to lets. Its a bit like swap shop up here, we all know someone who can undertake a task and I usually fit in all the time because I have bought all the equipment from cement mixer to stump grinder. That's the reason I don't want many more windy customers.

A grand a month fire brigade pension, mortgage paid off in March, single, no dependents means I'm quite reliable, throw in my skills and equipment I have means I'm always in demand. Best thing a windy cleaner should do part time is add another skill, i,e (building fences). After a storm you can pick up some fences to build or fix. Its not that hard to build a fence or add a new post or two. There are hundreds of small jobs that our customers will need doing like replacing a hip tile that got blown off (have one to do and will use my scaffold, safer and charge more), fix a gutter, replace a drainpipe, fix a slab, lay some slabs or monoblocks. What I have found is after one job, my customer will contact me first to see if I can do it before going elsewhere, means I'm busy.

Today is a charity day, had to bump out a bumper for old pal when a bollard jumped behind him and he hit it. I took round trolly jack and hairdryer and took wheel off and pressed it out. Good as new, no charge. He is over the moon and he will tell others, means more work comes my way. Its called the law of reciprocation, work has no choice but to appear when he goes to the Thursday club (200 members) and discusses what his week involved. 😉