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Get ready for better banking

We’re launching our new online banking service on Monday 9 June. Explore our resources to get prepared.

You said, we've listened


We’ve listened to what customers have told us about their banking experience, and we’re about to launch our new online banking service.

This will help you manage your accounts online, allowing you to focus on the important work that your organisation does. 

You can start using our new online banking service from Monday 9 June 2025

5 How to videos

New online banking user guide

Our user guide will help you navigate and make the most of our new online banking service. You’ll find an overview of its many features and step-by-step instructions on how to manage your banking tasks online.

View the guide

Your new login details

By Monday 9 June, you should have received your new online banking login details. We are sending you a text message with your temporary password and an email with your new username. 

Please don’t try to use your new login details until our new online banking service has launched on Monday 9 June.

If you haven’t received your new login details by Monday 9 June, please check your junk email or spam text folder. For further guidance on retrieving our messages with your login details, read our FAQs. You can request your login details to be resent to you, by completing this form.

Please save our email address – noreply@cafbank.org – in your contacts directory. Taking this action should prevent our system-generated emails diverting to your junk mail folder.

Scheduled maintenance work

Online banking services won’t be available from 3.30pm on Friday 6 June until 9.00am on Monday 9 June 2025. Your existing login details will no longer work, as we prepare to launch our enhanced banking experience on 9 June.

Your get ready checklist

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1. Dual authorise payments

By 3.00pm, Friday 6 June, make sure all existing payments created in online banking are dual authorised. Otherwise, the created payments will be rejected when we switch over to the new online banking service. 

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2. Review your records

We will transfer 18 months of transactions and 36 months of statements to our new online banking service. If you need to save records of additional transactions or statements, please download them by 3.00pm, Friday 6 June.

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3. Share this information

Share this information with your other online users. We have sent them communications too, but we would appreciate your help drawing their attention to them.

Additional checklist

For group payment users and QuickBooks' users

If you use group payments and/or QuickBooks, there are some additional actions we recommend you take. These will help make the move to the new online banking service as smooth as possible.

What group payment users need to do:

  • Take a note of your group payment templates – These won’t be carried over automatically, so you’ll have to keep a record of the template name, payees, amounts, methods, dates and references. You’ll need to take this action by 3.00pm, Friday 6 June.

    Important: Your existing payees will be moved over automatically to our new online banking service, but your existing group payment templates will not be transferred.
  • Authorise future-dated payments - By 3.00pm, Friday 6 June, you will also have to fully authorise any future-dated payments in our existing online banking service. Otherwise, the created payments will be rejected when we switch over to the new online banking service.
  • Create the templates you need - From Monday 9 June, you can set up your new ‘bulk payment templates’ using the details you noted down.

On Thursday 5 June, we’ll share our updated user guide and a short video, showing how to create bulk payment templates and make bulk payments in our new online banking service.

What QuickBooks' users need to do:

  • Upload transactions posted on Friday 6 June
    Transactions posted on Friday 6 June will not be updated automatically to QuickBooks. To make sure any transactions posted on this day are reflected, you should go to the ‘Transactions’ page in QuickBooks and click ‘Update’ before the 3:30pm cut-off on Friday 6 June.
  • Reconnect to your CAF Bank accounts
    When you log in to QuickBooks on or after Monday 9 June, you will see an information box displayed on the ‘Transactions’ page. This will advise that the connection to CAF Bank is no longer available and ask you to take the following action, so that you can continue automatically connecting to your CAF Bank account data.

You will need to:

  • Disconnect from the connection to your accounts, and then
  • Reconnect to your CAF Bank accounts using your new online banking login details. 

Please refer to QuickBooks' guidance on how to disconnect and reconnect to your accounts. 

Better banking is coming


View your own dashboard – see your CAF Bank accounts, transactions and statements in one place. You'll no longer need to log in to a separate system to view statements. 

Send money faster – make one-off, bulk and recurring payments online by Faster Payment, standing order and CHAPS*. Authorised Faster Payments will leave throughout each working day, Monday to Friday, between 9am and 4pm.

Gain peace of mind – through enhanced security features. Dual authorisation for every payment, improved notifications and control over the level of access to your accounts by authorised users.

* A fee applies for CHAPS bank transfers. Please see our CAF Bank Tariff.

 

Scams - spot the warning signs


Criminals use fake emails and websites to trick people into giving away passwords, bank details and other personal information. You might receive an email that looks legitimate but contains a malicious link to a fake website. When you try to log in, any security and personal details you enter can be stolen. 

How to spot a fake website:

  • The site doesn’t display the padlock symbol or ‘https’ in the address bar when you log in.
  • It is poorly designed or contains spelling and grammatical errors.
  • You’re asked or feel pressured to do something unusual or unexpected.
  • The sender’s email address, or the web address to which it directs, look suspicious, when hovering your cursor over the link.

You'll find more tips on how to stay safe in our Security Centre.

Frequently asked questions

If you haven’t received our email message with your new username, please first check your junk email folder. If you cannot see it there, you can request your new username to be resent to you by completing this form.

Please save our email address - noreply@cafbank.org - in your contacts directory. Taking this action should prevent our system-generated emails diverting to your junk mail folder.

If you are an Android phone user and have not received our text message:
Please check the ‘Spam & Blocked’ folder on your phone. To access this folder:
1. Go to your ‘Messages’
2. Tap on you profile picture
3. Click on ‘Spam and Blocked’
4. Look for a message from ‘cafbank6039’

If you are an Android phone user and you have deleted our text message:
1. Check whether you have a ‘recycle bin’ folder, or a feature to view archived messages (e.g. under the three dots on the top right of the screen) – these options vary by mobile device. 
2. Look for a message from ‘cafbank6039’

If you are an iPhone user and you have not received our text message:
Please check whether or not you have a Filter set. To access this filter:
1. Go to your ‘Messages’
2. If there is a filter, this will appear in the top left corner
3. If you see this displayed, please click to show ‘Unknown Senders’
4. Look for a message from ‘cafbank6039’

If you are an iPhone user and you have deleted our text message:
1. Go to your ‘Messages’
2. If there is a filter, this will appear in the top left corner. If not, it will show ‘Edit’
3. Click on ‘Filter’ or ‘Edit’ in the top left corner
4. Select ‘Show Recently Deleted’
5. Look for a message from ‘cafbank6039’

If you are still unable to locate our text message:
Please request your temporary password to be resent to you by completing this form.

 

Among the things you’ll notice are new and improved features to help manage your accounts online. Other changes will make your everyday banking tasks easier. We will share more details with customers through our regular service updates.

We continually look for ways to enhance our services, guided by customer feedback. For instance, adding an extra layer of security through the Confirmation of Payee service.

We’ve listened to what customers have told us about their use of online banking, and we’re working on an upgrade to improve your online banking experience.

You can start using our new online banking service from Monday 9 June 2025. We need your help to make the move as smooth as possible, by taking the following recommended actions.

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Yes – we’ll be in touch as we need your help to make the move as smooth as possible. Check out these four recommended actions you can take now.

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Simply to share with you important information about the CAF Bank products and service that your organisation uses. It’s the best way to share service updates with you – and let you know what actions you’ll need to take to prepare for the changes.

Staying vigilant means you’ll be less likely to be tricked by scammers. If an email from CAF Bank doesn’t look right, report it to us at scamreporting@cafonline.org

Remember, CAF Bank will never:

1. Text or email you with a link to make or authorise a payment
2. Claim your money isn’t safe, or that your account is at risk
3. Ask you to make an urgent payment from your account
4. Request your PIN, One-Time Passcode that you received in a text message, or full password for telephone and online banking

Take a look at the rest of our Seven Golden Rules, along with more information on how to stay safe in our Security Centre.

You and your other online banking users need to use separate email addresses to access CAF Bank online banking – everyone must have an email address that only they have access to. You can check and update your email address by logging in to our online banking service.

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If you can’t find the answer you need, our team will be happy to help.

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CAF Bank Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (Financial Services Register number: 204451).

CAF Bank Limited Registered office is 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4JQ. Registered in England and Wales under number 1837656.