Rules and regulations of Barclays bank to successfully process bulk payments
Please keep the following information in mind when using the accounts payable feature. If you're uncertain on any of the following, you will need to reach out to your bank.
- If you are using Barclays Corporate, please follow the steps in this guide to enable your account for open banking payments.
- Daily transaction limit. If you are not sure what your daily limit is, please reach out to your bank
- Bank account type
- Barclays mobile app does not allow users to approve bulk payments on their phone. Bulk payments will need to be approved on a desktop or laptop.
When scheduling a payment to UK recipients, please ensure it is set up before 5pm the day prior to allow sufficient time for bank processing.
Please note that banks are not able to support multi-authentication for bulk pay runs using open banking.
Payment type |
Supported |
Bulk payments | ✅ |
Single payments | ✅ |
Faster payments | ✅ |
Single future dated payments | ✅ (Up to 90 days) |
Bulk future dated payments | ✅ (Up to 90 days) |
Currency | GBP |
Minimum payment amount | 5 |
Maximum payment amount | 50 |
Maximum batch amount | £100,000 |
Additional information:
- In contact names and references, please avoid from using special characters (i.e '.', #' or '[ ]' ) as this can prevent you from being able to complete the single/batch payment
Canceling scheduled payment
- Log in to Online Banking (if you’re registered) and go to ‘Pay and transfer’ in the top menu.
- Select Transfers, standing orders and Direct Debits under the Manage and track tab
- (optional) If you have multiple Barclays account, you will want to select the account in which you wish to cancel the payment for
- Once bank account has been a selected, a list of scheduled payments will pop up.
- Select the future schedule payment in which you would like to cancel/delete
- Click on Delete single payment
- You will be asked to confirm and once you have clicked on the confirm button, the scheduled payment will have been deleted