If you do venture into the world of data sharing with YouGov Finance (no actual connection to the government) be careful how you add accounts for the points and rewards.
You get 500 points for each active current account and credit card, but only 100 for a savings account, and you can only add 10.
So to get to the 5,000 points mark, for a £50 gift card, I was adding 10 of my current accounts and credit cards, but messed up in the adding process by not deselecting my Santander eSaver, during Santander authority, so will now fall short of the 5,000 for the moment. Cannot add another account for another 92 days
My own fault.
Seems like easy money. Read up on it by scanning through MSE Forum thread too.
Seems to be baulking a bit with FD, will not open the app. Also only picked up the Starling main account, neither of the two savings ones. R-
Edit: Just realised Starling Saving Space accounts do not attract interest. They are just areas to put money aside. Only Fixed Saver account has interest, That’s about to change!
This is not mobile friendly (on my end) and it more into them looking at your spending and they use your data for whatever and even bribe you with points.
This is no different to any free aggregator app/service which doesn’t have paid tiers (perhaps with the exception of those provided by banks). If the users aren’t paying for it, they will be using the user data to earn money.
From things said on other forums I know that Starling uses a non-standard API (relative to guidelines provided to the big banks) and this has led to delays in aggregators supporting it in the past. Perhaps Starling doesn’t provide access to Savings Spaces through its API, or perhaps these aggregators just need more time to add full support
With Emma, Starling spaces (and Monzo pots) show as savings accounts. The transactions themselves don’t appear to be available via the APIs - just the balances.
