Add Payees Easily

[Paulw (Paul)]

Great. Thanks for sharing

[jzw95]

@Frankiejr

Paying sole from joint and vice versa. Then you can add a reference.

I thought I tried this early on with the joint account and it didn’t work, so good to know this is possible! Thanks for the tip, that is a huge problem for me when transferring between personal and joint, so will be a big help.

[anddh (Andy Hughes)]

Yes!

[alexmh]

Saw this today for the first time. I’d like to see the option to set a custom photo for contacts though.

Custom recipient photos

Would love a way to add local profile photos to recipients and businesses. Why have an R when I could have a photo of my girlfriend, or that local business without a social media presence so I can add a photo 9f their business

EDIT: Setting a custom name would be great, too!

[TTJJ]

I feel like you shouldn’t call payee’s contacts in the app (if you press edit on a payee a delete contact button appears). The payee list is searchable along side my actual contact list so deleting contacts in Monzo is in no way related to your actual contact list. It’s just confusing.

Please just copy Starlings design for the payee management it works so well and is very clear.

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

Might be me being very anal here but id love to be able to use my monzo id card ( similar way to how other contacts is shown) as a base and then add my other accounts under that.

That way ill be able to use my monzo profile pic for transfers to my other accounts

Maybe in future iterations if possible please

[jamesrosenrosen (James Rosen)]

Thanks Jami, would be great if you could just tap on a name to rename it, really annoying when they pay first and it comes through as ‘Secondname Firstname’ or even worse in all caps.

Editing the description for bank accounts would be great too, rather than having to re-add.

I have an account with Skipton, it requires a certain reference every time I transfer, would it be possible to add a default reference for each account eventually?

[Feathers (MikeF)]

@jamesrosenrosen

Thanks Jami, would be great if you could just tap on a name to rename it, really annoying when they pay first and it comes through as ‘Secondname Firstname’ or even worse in all caps.

That’s a stated limitation from the original release post so we can assume it’s coming along in future.

@jamesrosenrosen

I have an account with Skipton, it requires a certain reference every time I transfer, would it be possible to add a default reference for each account eventually?

When you tap on the reference line, the drop down selection box normally contains all of the references you’ve previously used for that payee. I personally feel it’s easier to select the one you want from the list with one tap rather than have to delete a default and then do the same one tap to select an alternative.

[jamesrosenrosen (James Rosen)]

Yeah, good point, that’s probably not needed then.

Also would be good to see Incoming payments come under the same payee as outgoing payments. As per image below, for some reason they aren’t in my case.

[Marky_S]

I’ve found this. Very annoying.
Hopefully this will be addressed in the future

[Sachaz (Sacha Zarb)]

Can I just say the new payee detail screens are pure

Brilliant stuff

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

You got me all excited there that theyd been launched on the fly! Slight disappointment when i realised you were on about the initial post lol

[Chris_R (Chris Rimell)]

@Chris_R

NS&I also not showing a logo - 08-31-15

Also Unity Trust Bank has no logo - 60-83-01

[Venomx (Terry Adams)]

This feature is brilliant whereby you can see all the accounts and which bank its with underneath any given name

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

Yeah I agree this 100% needs to be done to be able to make the incomings/outgoings details match up and tidy up everything

[JakeRound (Jake)]

Any particular timeframe for adding profile pictures and changing names of payees? As this is the only thing that’s making my banking feed a little ugly at the moment.

[tlloyd87]

I noticed that in the “recents” list under Payments, you can add extra accounts to a person. This is a super useful feature, and enables me to send money straight to the correct account if someone has several. The only problem is you can’t edit the person’s name or the account label once it’s added.

I’d love to see more made of this feature - like a contacts list but instead of phone numbers, (meaningfully named) bank accounts under each person.

[glasgow]

Hi @tlloyd87 as you’ll see from this post this is a known gap which Monzo will hopefully fix in further updates to this feature:

Add Payees Easily

Hey all, 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…

[M3th0s (Bruno Sousa)]

Am I right in understanding that you can’t add payees at the moment, only edit the recents list?

Every time I click on the add contact at the top of the page it opens the contacts app. but no option for adding a new payee.

Thanks in advance

[Marky_S]

Add Payees Easily

Hey all, 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…