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Direct Debit handy tools

Direct Debit is easy and convenient – but that hasn’t stopped us creating this set of handy tools to make your Direct Debit experiences as smooth as possible.

Handy tools

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Stay effortlessly on top of your finances with the Direct Debit Control Centre, an easy-to-use smartphone app which puts you in control of your bill payments.
A quick and easy budget calculator tool will help you manage your finances by calculating your monthly disposable income.

You don’t have to worry about transferring your Direct Debit payments if you choose to switch bank accounts. Follow this simple account switching guide.

The FAQs section will make your Direct Debit experience trouble free.
If you are heading off to college or university and are facing the financial facts of life for the first time, then you must read our student guide.
This guide outlines the basics about Direct Debit and the Direct Debit Guarantee.

The Direct Debit Guarantee protects you in the rare event that there is an error in the payment of your Direct Debit.

Follow these few simple steps to ensure your Direct Debits are trouble free.
This checklist is a great reminder of all the arrangements that need to be made - especially if your Direct Debits are going to carry on looking after you in your new home.
The Payments Council has created an online sort code checker enabling you to check that the sort code you are sending a Bacs Direct Credit payment to, or collecting a Direct Debit from, can accept these payment types. It also includes information for other UK payment schemes.
A library of useful letter templates to aid your correspondence with your bank and the organisation with which you have a Direct Debit.