Updated as of 18/04/24
Some people are asking me how to do a bank transfer as this is now my preferred method of payment, although I am still happy to take cash.
I have a business bank account with a specialist provider who are happy to deal with me as a professional dominatrix.
The business name is very nondescript, and if you type it in to google, brings up thousands of companies worldwide with the same name so impossible for anyone to figure out what the payment is for, so no embarrassing names on the bank statement. I require payment to be made 30 minutes ahead of the session start time, so I can log in and check everything has gone through. I can only take payments from UK banks.
If you have internet banking, it is very easy, simply go to the make a payment section of your banking app on your phone, or on your banks website. It will then ask you if you are transferring money into a personal or business account, mine is a business account. The next step is to type in my bank details which I will give you, the bank will then confirm that the sort code and account number match the name I have given you so that you know the money is going into the correct account, the payment will then go through.
Important
The name of the account you transfer the money to must be the name I give you, you must not change it to something else, if you type in something else, the payment will bounce due to the banks doing fraud checks as the account names don’t match. This is all due to the new confirmation of payee the banks are all signed up to and it’s to protect their customers from transferring money into the wrong account which is so easily done. When prompted for a reference for the payment, just type in that days date.
Some banking apps will ask you if you want to save my payee name on your online banking, most people then save me as a name other than my business name not realizing that this will then change the business name to my bank, making the bank transfer bounce. If you save me as a payee, please keep my business name the same. Again, my business name is nondescript and not googleable, it will not look odd on your bank statement.
Although my bank knows what I do, and if a dodgy reference is used such as “payment for fetish session”, it wont be a problem for me, but it will appear on your bank statement, which is why I ask for the reference to be todays date!
Some people don’t trust internet banking, if this case you can make the payment via telephone banking if you have this set up, or as I have said I can take cash.
The bank I am with does not have branches, so it is not possible to pay cash into the account over the counter unfortunately.
Rose