Adding your Amex credit card to Monzo

[Ndrewitt (Nick)]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me when you add a credit card like an amex to your Monzo can you see separate transactions and categorise the spending? I have a joint card with my partner and I want to track our spending according to specific categories like joint spending and our own work expenses.

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Hi @Ndrewitt & welcome

@ndrw nailed it , but there’s an extra consideration. Despite subscribing to Plus or Premium, ‘Custom’ categories are not available for Joint Accounts - only Personal accounts at this time. So your connected Amex can show ‘standard’ or ‘custom’ categories, but the Joint account can only show ‘standard’ categories.

If you now feel like this:

Then vote for the feature here (blue box at top-left):

Monzo Extra, Perks & Max (2024) for Joint Accounts

2024 update: All references to ‘Plus’ below are historical and are now ‘Extra’, ‘Perks’ or ‘Max’ While Monzo Plus (2020) for Joint Accounts has been discussed in other topics, there doesn’t seem to be a direct topic to vote for such a feature. So here it is. ( click on the blue ‘VOTE’ at the top-left) I’m sure many of you will be aware that I use only a Joint Account as the sole Monzo account, and while I have the current Plus on my Personal Account, I don’t use my PA (neither does…

No guarantees it’ll ever happen, but more votes keeps the focus on a feature that is highly requested.

[Ndrewitt (Nick)]

Thanks for the answer. Took a while for my topic to get posted so in the meantime I checked out money dashboard and seems to do what I want for free at the moment.