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Anytime Banking or Bankline?
We’ve laid out the key points of comparison to help you choose.
Bankline works better if you have bespoke needs or larger teams. Anytime Banking works better if you want a simple service, without a monthly fee, and don’t need to set up different levels of access.
Have a look. And if you’d like to discuss your options, give us a call.
Anytime Banking
There’s no monthly service fee for Anytime Banking.
There are still payment fees for making different kinds of payments.
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Bankline
Bankline has a monthly fee, based on the number of accounts you add to Bankline.
Fees effective until 31 August 2025:
- 1-5 accounts: £20 per month
- 6-10 accounts: £80 per month
- 11+ accounts: £160 per month
Fees as of 1 September 2025:
- 1 account: £10 per month
- 2-5 accounts: £20 per month
- 6+ accounts: Additional registered accounts are an extra £5 a month each, so 6 is £25, 7 is £30, and so on. There’s a maximum monthly fee of £160. So, if you had 50 or 500 accounts, you’d still just pay £160 a month.
Bankline also has payment fees that vary depending on the type of payment.
Download Bankline fact sheet (PDF, 812 KB)
(Charges effective until 31st August 2025)
Download Bankline fact sheet (PDF, 151 KB)
(Charges effective from 1st September 2025)
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Anytime Banking
Add up to 20 users.
Users will all have the same level of access. They’ll be able to:
- View all accounts
- Change settings
- Raise and approve payments.
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Bankline
Add as many users as you need.
Users can have different levels of access.
Set what users can see and do by assigning them roles (eg. payment raiser) and limit access to specific accounts if needed.
Option to have two users approve payments and changes in Bankline.
An audit log lets you track user activity.
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Anytime Banking
- Add up to 50 accounts per business.
- View transactions and balances held with other banks.
- View your accounts on the Mobile Banking app
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Bankline
- Add up to 999 accounts per business.
- View transactions and balances held with other banks.
- Add foreign currency accounts (useful for international trade).
- Make accounts confidential.
- Create account sets to help group and organise your finances.
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Anytime Banking
Make Faster Payments up to £250,000 with biometrics enabled.
- Approve up to 15 payments at once.
- Send international payments.
- Make bulk payments from bulk lists (up to 25 payees per payment).
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Bankline
- Make Faster Payments up to £1 million.
- Approve up to 75 payments at once.
- Send international payments.
- Make bulk payments from bulk lists (up to a maximum of 3000 payees per payment).
Additionally:
- Make CHAPS payments.
- Import payment files from external software (handy for high volumes of payments).
- Set your own payment limits.
- View summary of payment activity.
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Anytime Banking
- Multifactor authentication for log in and payment approval.
Fixed daily payment limit of £50k (eligible customers can make one off payments over this limit up to £250k).
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Bankline
- Multifactor authentication for log in and payment approval.
- Set the payment limits that work for you.
- Have two or more users to approve payments and changes, where needed.
- Set which countries payments can be sent to.
- Set alerts for payment activity.
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Anytime Banking
It only takes a few minutes to apply for Anytime Banking. If you have a business debit card, you may get instant access to your accounts.
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Apply for Bankline
You can apply online when you’re ready.
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