Payment Services

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Card processing

Secure e-payments

Cheques

Receiving international payments

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Card processing

Make it easier and safer for your customers to buy from you by accepting cards as payment using Streamline.

Streamline is one of Europe's leading face-to-face card payment services. It helps customers in every part of the high street, service companies and professionals, from start-ups to blue chips.

There are more than 165 million payment cards in UK alone and Streamline handles almost half of all UK transactions, reliably and confidently.

Key benefits include:

Widespread card acceptance

Prompt payment

Electronic processing

Fast, efficient service

Cardholder preferred currency

Easy to use

Tailor-made system

Secure e-payments

If you're interested in selling your products and services online but you're not sure where to start, we can help. Our online payment services give you everything you need to let your customer pay online - quickly, safely and securely with Worldpay.

Widespread card acceptance

With Worldpay, you'll be able to accept payments from all major credit, debit and charge cards.

Currency settlement options

Your customers can pay in their own currency and your business has a variety of currency settlement options.

Secure encrypted service

Sophisticated encryption ensures secure processing of online transactions.

Enhanced customer base

Offering online payments attracts new customers and more impulse buyers as consumer habits change.

Cheques

Cheques are a paper based payment method often used for buying goods and services in retailers, for paying bills and as gifts. However, as customers have increasingly found other payment methods more efficient and effective, cheque usage has rapidly declined over the past 20 years resulting in fewer shops and retailers accepting cheques.

Find out more about the cheque clearing cycle

Receiving international payments

Easy and secure ways to receive customer payments.

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Electronic payments

When your business needs to receive funds from abroad, our electronic payments solution is a fast and secure option.

You get high levels of reliability and security, and you can:

Enhance your cash flow, as funds are received from abroad as quickly as possible
Eliminate the paper-work involved in handling paper-based payments

Funds will be credited to your account as soon as possible. This will be either on the value date or, if this is not possible, on the next best possible value date.

If the currency of the payment is different from the currency of your account, we will automatically convert sums of under £25,000 equivalent.

Your relationship manager or your local branch will tell you what information you will need and what the costs are.

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Streamline international

For multi-currency payments and settlements.

Streamline International (from Worldpay) can provide you with a complete multi currency capability, enabling your business to process credit card transactions and make settlement in a multitude of currencies.

Key features & benefits:

Single agreement - covers all MasterCard and Visa credit card payments, eliminating the need for multiple agreements with local card acquirers
Fast payments - typically received within three days of transaction
Cardholder preferred currency - customers can pay in their own currency, you have a variety of currency settlement options
Management Information - available electronically, allowing you to collect information earlier
Dedicated helpdesk - available 365 days a year

For more information please speak to your relationship manager.

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Drafts & cheques

When electronic payments can't be used.

Due to security concerns, we do not recommend paper-based payment methods however some of your trading partners may prefer these types of payments. Your Relationship Manager or your local branch will tell you what information you will need and what the costs are.

Please note that we are unable to accept:

deposits made to your account in non-Sterling cheques, international or domestic drafts or travellers cheque deposits from any issuer
Sterling/GBP cheques issued by a bank or building society branch based outside the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man or Gibraltar

Any deposits or credits of this nature that we receive will be returned. We do not issue international draft payments.

Help to manage your cash flow

Card processing

Key benefits include:

Widespread card acceptance

Prompt payment

Electronic processing

Fast, efficient service

Cardholder preferred currency

Easy to use

Tailor-made system

Secure e-payments

Widespread card acceptance

Currency settlement options

Secure encrypted service

Enhanced customer base

Cheques

Receiving international payments

Easy and secure ways to receive customer payments.

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