[Blackbushe Windows]

A customer (new) asked if he could have my bank details to pay me direct rather than cheque in post. What do you think?
Never done this before and am hesitant.

One of my custies works at A & Leicester and suggests I use savings acc. as this cannot be accessed for withdrawal.
 
Any comments?

Peter

[pingu]

With the exception of half a dozen customers all mine pay by internet banking....

Giving out your account number is not really an issue....whats the worst that can happen...? They'll put some money in...

Good luck
Dave.

[LWC]

well someone asked me this the other day and to be fair i was a little hesitant

you say whats the worst that could happen? when i got my orange phone they asked me for my bank details, thats how they setup direct debits with them. whats to say these people wouuldnt do that???

[Stuart Webster]

It's only the same information as you get on a cheque!

[windowwashers]

A customer (new) asked if he could have my bank details to pay me direct rather than cheque in post. What do you think?
Never done this before and am hesitant.

One of my custies works at A & Leicester and suggests I use savings acc. as this cannot be accessed for withdrawal.
 
Any comments?

Peter

I have quite a few people payonline, by bank transfer, DD, standing order ect. Also Paypal.
I prefer payment this way 

Ian

[Helen]

we give out business account details. If you are wary of this then as soon as the money has cleared, transfer to a different holding account

[Ian Rochester]

Hundreds of our customers have our bank details, makes life much easier

[Village Gleam]

No known issues. If you know of one then say.

[AuRavelling79]

They can't withdraw without passwords/pin numbers and personal security info.

I've a few who pay me this way.

But I will accept gold as well - with a name like mine who wouldn't?

[johnny_h]

i have never had problems with internet banking payments all i gave the customer were the A/c and sort codes wish all my custys paid me that way

[D.Salkeld_Ltd]

Hi All,

Internet Payment is one of my favorite methods of payment
It helped those "busy" customers who seem to forget to write out and send a cheque :

David

[[GQC] Tim]

Unbelievable, no offense, but I laugh so hard with the occasional person who says, I'm hesitant to give out my account number, who knows what they can do.

There are Two different things,

Card number, and Account number.

Accountnumber and Sortcode, people can only put money IN.

Number on the card itself, along with Expiry date and Security code. Money can be taken OUT.

Obviously you give only your Accountnumber out.

LOL.