Technology making life that little bit more annoying

[king arthur]

For a few years now we've had these parking payment apps that made parking your car just that bit more convenient. Instead of faffing around looking for a machine that's working and then a bit more faff to find some change and then realizing you've forgotten your reg number and so have to walk back to the car again, now you just fire up the app, type in location number, select the car you've just parked, choose how long you want, tap go and job done. Simples.

Except now it isn't. Because for some inexplicable reason, Barclays has decided that it wants to confirm this transaction with me every sodding time I park my car. I mean, God forbid that someone is trying to rip me off for a whole one pound and five pee and they'll have to reimburse me or something. So now it's fire up app, type location code, choose car, choose length of time, click go, get told that I need to confirm this transaction, choose to do it through the banking app, wait for alert from Barclays app, wait a bit more, and some more, then it (usually) arrives, click on that, faff about typing in pass code for banking app because it won't accept my fingerprint for this purpose because obviously the violent gang of parking session thieves might be holding my dead blood stained dismembered forefinger up to the phone, tap on yes I really am spending a whole one pound and something on a transaction just like I have the last dozen times you've asked me you tts, and finally I can leave the car park. Long after the old biddies who do it the old fashioned way have been and gone and come back again. At least I can be safe in the knowledge that Barclays has my back and never will I be scammed by these dangerous parking thieves that could have ending up seeing me lose literally hundreds of pennies.

And don't even get me started on passwords.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Dad, is that you?

[Shuff4]

What about a monza account for these transactions?

I can’t recall mine needing to confirm things all the time? Also Halifax doesn’t for me either?

I mention monza as it’s super easy to set an account up.

[TimmyMallett]

I hate pay by app car parking. You have to have several bloody apps. What's wrong with a contactless ticket machine?

[Magnum 475]

I also hate it. I'm up to six parking apps so far - I have a separate folder on my phone just for parking apps. Sooner or later I'll open an app by mistake and pay to park at completely the wrong location based solely on a reference number that will be duplicated across apps.

[lufbramatt]

Seems to be various scams evolved for online parking payments- my mother in law discovered this recently. Seems that either the websites are being hijacked by a popup or there's websites with almost identical addresses to the legit ones that people click on by mistake. As a result she had £30 taken off her card and her details cloned.

Bring back coin machines- worst that can happen in the machine swallows a couple of quid.

[GranpaB]

Never had a problem with my lloyds account on RingGo.

The op is complaining about Barclays, not the app

[Gary C]

HSBC demands two step verification for ringgo on my phone with no option to make it a trusted device, where as amazon and Ebay dont.

Go figure.

[king arthur]

TimmyMallett said:

I hate pay by app car parking. You have to have several bloody apps. What's wrong with a contactless ticket machine?

What's wrong with a contactless ticket machine is, the two old biddies who got to it before you did don't know how to use contactless, and they can't figure out how to type in their reg number, and can't work out which button to press to get it to accept the reg number, until someone points out it's the big green one, and then they stand there fishing around in their handbags looking for five pee coins and feeding them into the machine, but because the display doesn't update quickly enough they'll feed too many in and decide they want some of them back, so then they have to start over again, and by the time you get to the machine the shops have all closed and part of your life force has drained away.

So a parking app that you just tap a couple of things on and walk away was a brilliant idea. Except now it's not.

[theaxe]

Gary C said:

HSBC demands two step verification for ringgo on my phone with no option to make it a trusted device, where as amazon and Ebay dont.

Go figure.

I use RingGo (which is actually pretty good) and for some reason going through ApplePay bypasses the two step verification which my Mastercards needs for every. single. transaction. otherwise.

[fourstardan]

king arthur said:

For a few years now we've had these parking payment apps that made parking your car just that bit more convenient. Instead of faffing around looking for a machine that's working and then a bit more faff to find some change and then realizing you've forgotten your reg number and so have to walk back to the car again, now you just fire up the app, type in location number, select the car you've just parked, choose how long you want, tap go and job done. Simples.

Except now it isn't. Because for some inexplicable reason, Barclays has decided that it wants to confirm this transaction with me every sodding time I park my car. I mean, God forbid that someone is trying to rip me off for a whole one pound and five pee and they'll have to reimburse me or something. So now it's fire up app, type location code, choose car, choose length of time, click go, get told that I need to confirm this transaction, choose to do it through the banking app, wait for alert from Barclays app, wait a bit more, and some more, then it (usually) arrives, click on that, faff about typing in pass code for banking app because it won't accept my fingerprint for this purpose because obviously the violent gang of parking session thieves might be holding my dead blood stained dismembered forefinger up to the phone, tap on yes I really am spending a whole one pound and something on a transaction just like I have the last dozen times you've asked me you tts, and finally I can leave the car park. Long after the old biddies who do it the old fashioned way have been and gone and come back again. At least I can be safe in the knowledge that Barclays has my back and never will I be scammed by these dangerous parking thieves that could have ending up seeing me lose literally hundreds of pennies.

And don't even get me started on passwords.

I've found Barclays doing this on payments ruddy annoying as well.

[fatboy b]

Try buying fuel on the Esso app. 5 levels of authentication required these days.

[paulrockliffe]

fatboy b said:

Try buying fuel on the Esso app. 5 levels of authentication required these days.

Ha ha, last time I tried Esso the attendant ended up coming out to make sure I want doing a runner I was say there so long without paying. fking authentication.

[James6112]

fatboy b said:

Try buying fuel on the Esso app. 5 levels of authentication required these days.

I’ve never had that with Esso App / Apple Pay
A lot quicker than queing & being tempted to buy crap in the shop!

[devnull]

FYI for those of your who don't know, if your car has Apple CarPlay, then Ringo works on that.

So you pull into a space, open ringgo on your infotainment screen and pay for your parking straight off your screen. Convenient as fk.

But I agree with OP - too many parking apps. The mipermit app can fk off.

[B235r]

Lloyds does this with Morrisons online shopping every fking time! So you do it check out then later have to re do it all over again as you edited your order & need to check out again

[Bullett]

Try charging an electric car, the number of apps needed for parking is insignificant compared to the apps for charging. I have 9 charging vs 3 parking apps.
Sometimes you need the parking app and the charging app.

I understand why the parking wants your Reg but not sure why the charging app needs that plus my address, inside leg, sexual preferences and favourite colour. The multiple layers of authentication then put in the chargers name and/or number and authorise again, wait for a handshaker and finally charge. PITA. Quite why I can't just use contactless like buying petrol.

[mmm-five]

There was a gaming app that I used to have on iOS that would require a code from their authenticator app to log in...all good so far.

However, when you switch away from the app to go to the authenticator, the original app resets the session and then refuses the current code and asks you to get a new one...ad infinitum.

The options were to have 2 phones so that one could run the authenticator and one could run the app, or just use their website. I chose the latter until I swapped to a different app offering similar functionality.

[LuS1fer]

I think a 2 step verification is required these days but yes, I want to buy this. Pay now, oh, open your bank app to authorise....

PayPal is easier, auto referral back and forth.

Modern bank cards without details are annoying. You're trying to order in Wetherspoons and have to put in card details but they're buried on the phone you're using to order the damn meal. Back to PayPal then.

[DKS]

Barclays are very hit and miss. The app itself is quite good for transferring money to friends and checking the depressing state of the mortgage etc. But to pay for things it's useless. Every time it updates you need to reset it as the default payment.
The answer I have found is to use Google Wallet with a credit card (not Barclays, they also only trust Apple it seems) which, so far has only failed me once when I got to France on a driving holiday, but was spot on the rest of time spanning 4 countries and has no contactless limit.
I guess like most things you need... 'the knack'. Become a 5 minute expert then move on to the next thing.