Not being able to get a replacement card more quickly (walk in) like TD Bank is frustrating. Also recently attempted to report daughter’s lost debit card as a joint account I have access to I was blindsided when online Card Services caused me to block my debit card & main source of financial access, on New Year’s Eve with NO ability to have Lead Mgt unblock it with major proof of who I was with card in hand needing to wait at least 2 days at $30 or 8 days free on a major holiday ALL due to online features being limited in not only not indicating which account or card was being check as lost until after confirm & also should add a safety feature option asking person to confirm account they are about to block is correct! Either of two steps would have prevented this unfortunate incident. I was thankful to the manager I spoke to who made suggestions how to deal with financial bind this put me in & waving the $30 2nd day delivery fee. This also happening on 1st of month caused me to miss receiving renters payment & having to reset card info & inconvenienced my renters as well. This could all have been easily prevented with Santander making minor improvements to be where competitor banks are. If making a change in banks did not involve so many changes, I would have moved over the incident & May still at some point in near future if more innovative changes aren’t made for convenient banking. Thank you for this opportunity to give feedback.
So many issues
weeeeelllllll
There hasn’t been a time where I tried to deposit my check my mobile banking where it has constantly caused me issues. I’ve never had this problem before and after I had this last update, it’s constantly telling me to get closer to the check that I’m depositing through the mobile banking app, and when I move far away from it it tells me that I need to get closer again, or to use a dark background when I already. They need to fix that contact us phone number that they have listed in the mobile banking app because it does not go through. I have to constantly slip between the dial pad and the app in order to call somebody and it’s just annoying and I’ll be able to quickly just press the button and it just start dialing because of random extra numbers being at the end of the actual phone number. It takes forever and a day to get in contact with somebody. But when you finally do, that’s probably the only reason why I’m giving them to Star’s is because the people there actually help you and are very considerate of the time that you’re putting towards getting the issue fixed and they do everything in their powers to make sure everything gets resolved till at least thank you for them hopefully that you guys take into consideration to fix things.
Awful app, can't make deposits
Mel1689
Update: it’s April 2019 and this app STILL hasn’t been improved. I no longer use this as a primary account because of this issue, I became a member at Citizens Bank (their app lets you deposit a check on the FIRST TRY-imagine that). I would not recommend Santander to anyone who needs to convenience of depositing checks with the app. Original review from two years ago>>>This app deserves 0 stars. I can't believe the depositing checks feature hasn't been improved since I started using it over a year ago. I basically put off depositing my checks for as long as possible because I know it's going to take way too many tries and waste time and cause aggravation. (if it works at all, sometimes it says try later after I've taken the pics 5 times). One time it wasn't working and it was an important deposit so I went to the ATM and it ate my check. And didn't deposit it. I had to have another check written. This was a huge hassle. This means their app and their ATM service is unreliable. I know of other bank apps that offer the same features and it actually works the first time. Since Santander doesn't seem to care to fix this problem I'll be looking into other banks. It's 2017, I shouldn't have to bend over backwards to get a check deposited.
Decent I suppose
Noted451
I find the app generally useful at its most basic function. Being able to pay bills through the app is very handy and accessing a lot of my financial information is made much easier than the TD Bank app. I found Santander's deposit check camera system to be incredibly frustrating, however. The system never seemed to make it's mind if it wanted me to take a pic closer or farther away; and the automatic camera would time-out way too soon. I would prefer it to take the picture for me rather than do it manually (or at least let me choose between the two) because I don't quite trust myself if I've taken a picture of my check up to their standards or not. After struggling with taking pictures of my check, the options to deposit made me unsure if it went through or not still. It's a shame I'm left confused because my partner uses the Wells Fargo app which has the same deposit function, and his check clears automatically into his account (and it doesn't take him a whole 20min of struggling to get the camera to work). I hope Santander troubleshoots this function and gives it more stability soon. One of the biggest reasons for downloading the app was that feature. :/
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Seller
Santander Bank
Size
107.2 MB
Category
Finance
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.