[Arnold Palmer]

It's 1% isn't it? That's quite a lot over a year. I don't know what the OP is turning over, but if it's £1/2m (probably more) that's £5,000.

Compared to all other methods with the exception of bacs, 1% is very little.

Depends who you bank with.

Not really.

[8weekly]

It's 1% isn't it? That's quite a lot over a year. I don't know what the OP is turning over, but if it's £1/2m (probably more) that's £5,000.

Compared to all other methods with the exception of bacs, 1% is very little.

Depends who you bank with.

Not really.

If you have free banking it's £0 v £5,000. So it does depend.

[Arnold Palmer]

It's 1% isn't it? That's quite a lot over a year. I don't know what the OP is turning over, but if it's £1/2m (probably more) that's £5,000.

Compared to all other methods with the exception of bacs, 1% is very little.

Depends who you bank with.

Not really.

If you have free banking it's £0 v £5,000. So it does depend.

Not really. In the example you gave there is £500,000 worth of payments. GoCarldess is click one button once a day/week or month regardless of volume. Try processing £500,000 worth of payments for £5k

So it doesn't depend.

[8weekly]

It's 1% isn't it? That's quite a lot over a year. I don't know what the OP is turning over, but if it's £1/2m (probably more) that's £5,000.

Compared to all other methods with the exception of bacs, 1% is very little.

Depends who you bank with.

Not really.

If you have free banking it's £0 v £5,000. So it does depend.

Not really. In the example you gave there is £500,000 worth of payments. GoCarldess is click one button once a day/week or month regardless of volume. Try processing £500,000 worth of payments for £5k

So it doesn't depend.

We're a husband and wife team, so we manage it for nothing at the moment, but I do see the point you are making. Even with that sort of volume, it's no more than an hour or so a day reconciliation,  Add to that if you go 100% the amount of customers you will lose.

[Arnold Palmer]

1 hour reconciliation + everything else.

[8weekly]

1 hour reconciliation + everything else.

Last word freak! 

[Arnold Palmer]

1 hour reconciliation + everything else.

Last word freak! 

Never!

[Arnold Palmer]

Yes. You are not allowed to sign people up they need to do it themselves. GoCardless's only drawback.

thats not the only drawback..

Oh?

go cardless looks great, but there were some things  i didnt like, when i looked into it

that the custoemr has to respond to an email to set-up Via your website is by far and away the best method of sign up

that you cant set them up over the telephone Yup

that the customers get reminders when their payments go through For me that's an advantage, the last thing you want is your customers being charged by the bank for overdrawn payments, all direct debits should be like this in my opinion. It's a rarity that it happens anyway.

that you had to request payments off them rather than them go thru automatically One click, as many payments as you like (via cleanerplanner), not sure but I think automatic is an option too.

some of that might have changed now though.  what i did like about go cardless was that the price is amazing, and rob has intergrated it with cleaner planner

[Richard iSparkle]

Yes. You are not allowed to sign people up they need to do it themselves. GoCardless's only drawback.

thanks Soupy.

Go careless certainly looks good and I have another company where I probably will use it.

signing people up over the phone is a huge advantage for me
thats not the only drawback..

Oh?

go cardless looks great, but there were some things  i didnt like, when i looked into it

that the custoemr has to respond to an email to set-up Via your website is by far and away the best method of sign up

that you cant set them up over the telephone Yup

that the customers get reminders when their payments go through For me that's an advantage, the last thing you want is your customers being charged by the bank for overdrawn payments, all direct debits should be like this in my opinion. It's a rarity that it happens anyway.

that you had to request payments off them rather than them go thru automatically One click, as many payments as you like (via cleanerplanner), not sure but I think automatic is an option too.

some of that might have changed now though.  what i did like about go cardless was that the price is amazing, and rob has intergrated it with cleaner planner

[Arnold Palmer]

thanks Soupy.

Go careless certainly looks good and I have another company where I probably will use it.

signing people up over the phone is a huge advantage for me

It's a biggie. My main issue previously was identifying people who had signed up, if you didn't have the email address it could be difficult. They have sorted that now. I'm hoping that eventually they will sort the sign up process too.