Why does Airbnb show up in the feed as a series of random numbers and letters every time? A different set of numbers and letters!
And is there any way for Monzo to auto identify it as Airbnb and tidy up the name and logo?
I have to report it every time (and a tinnnnny gripe: when I report the name as Airbnb, you don’t change the logo unless I send a separate report about that).
I used AirBnB a couple of weeks ago. Same thing happened, I assume its the way AirBnB manages their payments because most of the money is instantly transferred to the host. That’s my initial thought.
Hi @urban! Thanks for reporting this - you made a very timely post as I fixed this on Monday - I made an airbnb booking over the weekend and noticed the same behaviour
The problem was that when airbnb send us an authorization request they call themselves “AIRBNB * REFNUMBER”. Our system assumes that anything after an asterisk in the name is the merchant name, as this is very common practice for payment processors like PayPal (like “PP*EBAYSHOPNAME”).
Future airbnb payments will look like this instead
Is it fixed for all merchants who present like this, or just Airbnb? Further upthread Microsoft is mentioned as being similarly broken in feed, for example.
I guess as you’re working from the assumption that anything after * is a merchant name then anything that breaks this is going to have to be fixed on a case-by-case basis?
Can this be done for other transactions where the * follows some reference info? I’d love it if my Google Drive subscription had a reference of ‘Google Storage’ or something. Helps differentiate from other Google payments.
You can strip the links tho. Ain’t nobody want that.