Paying money in

At a branch

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Find out more about the following.

Paying cash and cheques into your account

You can pay cash and cheques into your account at any Nationwide branch. Cash paid into your account will be available to withdraw instantly. However cheques paid into your account will take longer to be available. If you deposit cash and/or cheques at a Nationwide cash machine there may be a delay of one working day for the funds to be credited to your account.

Clearing cheques

There are two areas to consider when thinking about clearing cheques:

1. Clearing for withdrawal - when you are allowed to withdraw against any cheque you pay in with us.
2. Clearing for certainty - when you can be certain we will not take from your account any cheque which is returned unpaid without your permission (unless you are knowingly involved in fraud).

For information on clearing cheques please use our cheque processing calculator.

FAST cash machines

Our FAST cash machines and Selfserve tills are available in many of our branches and you can use them if you have a card.

With a FAST cash machine you can do the following.

Pay in cash instantly

Cash you pay in using the FAST and Selfserve tills is immediately available as cleared funds on your account. You can pay in up to 30 notes at a time up to a value of £2,500 a day.

Pay in cheques

You can pay cheques into your account using the FAST and Selfserve tills up to a limit of £2,000 per individual cheque. You can pay multiple cheques in through the FAST cash machines up to the value of £50,000. If your cheque exceeds either limit, you can deposit it at the branch counter.

Top-up your mobile phone

It's easy and quick to add credit to your mobile phone using any Nationwide branch cash machine. You only need your card and the phone number of the phone you would like to top-up.

Pay your bills

You can pay your bills at all of our cash machines. To do this you just need to set up the account or company you want to pay and the amount using Internet Banking.

Print a mini statement

You can print out your most recent transactions from any of our cash machines.

Change your PIN

If you would like to change your PIN to a number that is easy for you to remember, you can do so at any Nationwide cash machine. Remember, you should never write your PIN down or tell anyone else the number.