The delay in obtaining transactions significantly reduces the benefit.  Also bank feeds do  not provide the bank balance to enable reconciliation.

The Sage response to this question is that the update depends on a third party.  Nat West provides an aggregation service and that provides access to other bank accounts in real time.  For bank feeds to be useful real time access is essential  otherwise the Sage marketing statement below needs to be qualified?

 "Sage 50cloud is the Sage 50 Accounts desktop software you know and trust, ... Business contacts at your fingertips, work with real-time Sage Accounts "