Establishing a replacement credit card account
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If you have received a replacement credit card that has resulted in a new bank account becoming available for you to add to PocketSmith, it's best to link the new feed account to the existing account in order to avoid duplicate accounts.
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Overview
Replacement credit card with new account details
If you are sent a replacement credit card with slightly different bank details to your existing credit card account, a new feed account may become available in your online banking for you to add to PocketSmith. This is particularly confusing when the old card still has its own feed account which, may or may not still be importing transactions, and does not show any errors.
To prevent creating duplicate accounts, it's best to link the new feed account to the existing account within PocketSmith.
First, the original account will need to be unlinked from the feed. You can then link the new feed account to the original account in order to bring in your most recent transactions, keeping all transactions in one account.
Establishing a replacement credit card with new account details
In order to link the replacement credit card account feed to your existing credit card account in PocketSmith, you'll need to:
- Unlink the old bank feed account, converting this to an offline account
- Link the NEW feed account to the offline account
- Rename the account if you would like to. This is totally optional!
Step 1. Unlink the bank feed from the old feed account
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Head to the
Bank Feeds page (
Accounts >
Bank Feeds)
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Navigate to the relevant connection and select
Accounts
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- Click the arrow next to the account you'd like to unlink and select Unlink account
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Step 2. Link the new feed account to the existing offline account
Your unlinked feed accounts, both for the old card and the new, will now show in the Unlinked accounts section. You'll need to link the NEW feed account to the existing offline account.
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Click on Unlinked Accounts
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Link the
Existing account to the
new feed
account by selecting the
corresponding
feed account from the '
Unlinked feed accounts' drop-down menu, then click
LINK SELECTED
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You'll then be prompted as to whether you want to create any additional new accounts and link them to your currently unlinked feed accounts. If you only have the now old credit card account displayed here, and don't wish to add any further new accounts click
LEAVE UNLINKED.
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Your new feed account will now have been linked to the original account, and any new credit card transactions will continue to be imported into this account.
Step 3. Updating the account name (optional)
If the account name has changed with the replacement of the card you may like to update the name to suit. To do this:
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- Head to the Account Summary page ( Accounts > Account Summary)
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- Navigate to bank account that you'd like to rename, and select MANAGE ACCOUNT > Account preferences
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- Edit the account name, then click Save
