Allow you to split bill in the currency of the transaction

[rsdoherty (Ryan)]

When travelling, it would be good to be able to split the transaction based on the transaction currency.

An example of this would be:

4 friends, with Monzo, have a €100 bill we split. When splitting, we have to define the amount for each person in GBP, requiring us to convert what people owe.

The desired behaviour would allow us to split the bill in €, and have Monzo request the correct amount of GBP back in the bill split.

[jzw95]

This has been discussed at length before, you might find it interesting:

Monzo to Monzo payments in foreign currencies

I have just come back from a holiday in Europe with several friends who all used Monzo cards. We often found ourselves splitting the bill and sending money between cards but had to manually work out how much we owed each other in Euros as Monzo only allows transfers in Pounds. A feature that could either change the currency being sent between Monzo cards or that could calculate how many Pounds would need to be sent by inputting the value in Euros would be really useful!

There’s also a more recent topic on it that people have used to vote for this as a feature (makes sense not to split the vote):

Calculate splits in local currency (Bill Splits & Shared Tabs)

I think these things are best illustrated with a real life use case, so here goes … I have created a Shared Tab for holiday expenses incurred on a trip abroad. When it comes to splitting the bill I would like the option to switch to the currency in which the expense was originally charged. For example I paid the bill in Euros in a restaurant and this has appeared in my Monzo account. I know that one of my friends owes €25, but as the Shared Tab only allows me to split the bill using Sterling I…