The "Reference / Roll Number" Field on the "Add Payee" page.

  • SamSquirrel's Avatar
    When I review my transactions in a recipient account to which I have transferred money from a Tesco Current account, I want to be able to identify the payment and know where it has come from. With other accounts, I have always set up my inter-account payments with an indicator in the "Reference" field such as "From HSBC a/c" or "From HSBC Savings a/c" so that when I see it in the recipient account, I can identify the source. However, unless I am mistaken, it appears to me that the "Manage Payees" list is common to BOTH Current Accounts, meaning that a payment which has come from my Tesco No1 current account could be labelled as having come from my No 2 account. Is this really the case? I have also encountered a problem when setting up ad hoc payments to a Building society account. In that case the "Reference/Roll Number" field insists on having a Roll Number in it, and the field is unavailable for origin identification purposes. That is so even when it duplicates the sort code and account numbers which have already been included in other fields. I would appreciate your advice as to how I can deal with these issues. I accept that originating account numbers might be included, but having to check them against an account number list every time is not as convenient in having the source account named on the statement. Thank you.
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  • RossM's Avatar
    Former Community Manager
    Hi , thanks for making us aware of this. Although I'm not able to offer a resolve to these issues currently, I can certainly raise everything that you have been kind enough to note below as feedback with the appropriate department.