Bankwest Transaction account [General Discussion]

[neon_crossing]

Really struggling with telstra's payments atm. Couldn't even get all the payments today manually. Kept getting errors. Has anyone got a fix with imacro to recognise and error and go again?

 

[chadzok]

Yeah I feel like something's changed. I've given up, it takes too much time now. I'll keep checking back in but I think these errors have got me beat.

 

[N860CR]

Interestingly... Also receiving Telstra bills for three other people with the same name. Telstra haven't responded to a complaint raised (both with them and with the TIO)

 

[jhuyn005]

Really struggling with telstra's payments atm. Couldn't even get all the payments today manually. Kept getting errors. Has anyone got a fix with imacro to recognise and error and go again?

Yeah something broke today, even countless retries haven't worked so doubt a imacro that recognises the error and retry would do much good either.

Hopefully it's just a short term technical issue...

 

[coles525]

Still getting errors, but also recieving different receipt numbers when they do go through.

Don't ever give up!

Unsure if I've been using more then 50 a day, but I'm doing 60+ before I finally get the msg: transaction rejected.

 

[ETA_2022]

That happened to me recently as well...

Interestingly... Also receiving Telstra bills for three other people with the same name. Telstra haven't responded to a complaint raised (both with them and with the TIO)

So I'm not the only one this is happening to. Good to know, as that makes it more likely it's related to the multiple payments and it is Telstra's fault.

 

[ETA_2022]

... Don't ever give up! ...

Agree. Persistence almost always pays off. (Like making 12 payments before the duplicate payment message appears.)

 

[FrankC]

Has anyone tried doing transactions on ATO?

 

[NoName]

I seem to have similar issues as the above few pages when I do my payments from home on the weekend. It takes a while but I get through them all eventually. When I run then at work during the week I have no issues at all. Could it be something to do with the Internet connection speed? My home speed is much slower and less reliable than work.

 

[TedE]

I seem to have similar issues as the above few pages when I do my payments from home on the weekend. It takes a while but I get through them all eventually. When I run then at work during the week I have no issues at all. Could it be something to do with the Internet connection speed? My home speed is much slower and less reliable than work.

Possibly, are you with Telstra?

Visited a friend yesterday who has Bigpond, I did the transactions through their connection and, for the first time ever, got through all 100 without a connectivity error.

 

[NoName]

I'm with Optus at home and the connection speed can be quite slow. It's definitely a lot slower than I would like most of the time. At work obviously it's much quicker.

 

[neon_crossing]

Mine seems to be virtually back to normal with the imacro "refresh method" today.

 

[ETA_2022]

Has anyone recently tried to get another card for their account? Does your original card still work?

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

I can see in the T&C's that BPay payments do NOT generate any points, but I notice on my (large) Electricity Bill that one of their payment options is via AusPost's PostBillPay service.
I can't see any reference to this method in the T&C document (specifically clause 5), so my *guess* is that they should be OK.

I'm aware that the Supplier (AGL) also accept direct online payments through their website, but I'm just fishing for more avenues to use the iMacro method that don't (yet) have any traps in them to defeat multi-small payments.

Any opinions from the cognoscenti?

 

[jhuyn005]

Yes, the problem does relate to the internet connection speed. Have tried with telstra 4G instead and it worked seamlessly.

 

[potm]

Got my first statement. Did about 200 1c transactions paying my Virgin phone bill. Statement shows 0 points though. Do I have to wait until the next statement to get credited the points or am I doing something wrong?

 

[coles525]

wait till even the 3rd or 4th statement until everything actually runs purrfect.

Nothing ever shows on statement 1.

 

[potm]

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm assuming that I'll still get the points eventually for these transactions or am I doing it in vain?

 

[coles525]

Yes you will.

 

[ETA_2022]

Got my first statement. Did about 200 1c transactions paying my Virgin phone bill. Statement shows 0 points though. Do I have to wait until the next statement to get credited the points or am I doing something wrong?

Points only appear on statements that include the 1st workday of the month (providing BW have your QFF number).