Ah ok that’s great. Thought it might only do that for outbound payments
Gotcha yeah - I think they show at the moment when you ‘Send via bank transfer’.
Having the logos next to payees when this feature is released will be super-useful because it’s so much easier to ask someone if you’re sending to the right account - ‘is it your HSBC’? instead of ‘is it account number 12345678’
I’m assuming that you’ve got access to this on the test flight app? Just wondered if the test flight app is several updates ahead of the current iOS update.
I say this because the app updated today on iOS - for bugs etc - but I was hopeful it would contain the new add payee feature.
What I’d love is a ‘nickname’ field that just stays in Monzo, so that I can tell my own accounts apart better. The sort code, account number, and reference for credit card payments are all fixed, so the only way I can tell this apart is changing the name!
They did mention the ‘pay anyone easily’ was coming to Labs this month, so maybe that’s an extension of the improved payee management? Wishful thinking!
Yeah was sad to see itll not come this month
Be a big improvement when it does come though, pain at the minute transferring to my LISA, credit and Marcus accounts
Today we’re releasing a first small step towards our vision of making managing your payees as simple as your phone’s contact list.
In the latest version of the iOS and Android apps, you can now add additional bank accounts to your existing payees, and give each one a nickname to tell them apart.
To add an account to an existing payee:
Tap on their name in the payee list to view the new payee profile page.
Tap ‘add account’ and enter their details.
You’ll then see the account listed with its bank logo if we can find a match.
We think this’ll be useful for friends and family that have multiple accounts (some on Monzo, some elsewhere) - as well as telling apart your own accounts outside of Monzo.
This is a first initial version, and there are some gaps:
It’s not possible to add a new payee without paying them yet (we wanted to make this change first, to prevent a flood of new payees that then need merging later)
It’s not possible to add an account to an existing payee directly from the bank transfer flow.
It’s not possible to merge existing payees, or move an account from one payee to another.
It’s not possible to rename or edit payees
We’re currently working on an update to the payees service that will allow you to add the same account to multiple payees, perfect for accounts you share with someone else. For now you’ll see an error message when trying to add a duplicate account to a different payee.
Unfortunately no good to myself just yet as in a way to distinguish different accounts at the minute I set them up as “Nathan’s Skipton” “Nathan’s Marcus” etc so will need to wait till later updates otherwise will get messy