It would be great when using Monzo Flex if charges under the minimum (£3) were jus automatically paid. As far as I can tell, this is the only option anyway, but at present that involves a lot of tapping and notifications.
I use the Monzo Flex card as standard so have a reasonable amount of transactions which are under the £3 limit and the current work flow is pretty tedious!
I might be misunderstanding this… You’re using your flex card like your normal debit card and you’re frustrated by the amount of taps?
Isn’t the solution to stop using the flex card like a debit card and go back to using your “normal” card and keep flex for payments you actually want to flex?
Yep, I’m using my flex card like my usual debit card… I don’t see the issue with that?
Isn’t the solution to stop using the flex card like a debit card and go back to using your “normal” card and keep flex for payments you actually want to flex?
Why should I need to carry and use 2 cards when one should be fine?
I wasn’t insinuating that there was. I was simply trying to understand what the issue was
Now it’s clear that the problem has arisen because you’re using the card in a way it wasn’t intended I think you’ll struggle to get Monzo to change. Unfortunately, I imagine you’re going to be in a very tiny minority who uses their Flex card in this way.
If you only want to carry one card, why don’t you choose your debit card and save yourself all of this hassle. I assume this is what you did prior to Flex being released?
Then you can keep your Flex card in your digital wallet for larger pre-planned purchases which are worth the extra steps needed to choose a payment plan.
Or don’t, it’s entirely up to you We may find that lots of others feel the same as you and it could get fast-tracked on Monzos list of priorities. You never know!
It’s not even under £3, but like under £9 as each instalment needs to be £3 minimum. And sometimes one prepares to pay without knowing if it will be over or under £9.
I might just start doing that, i.e. ignore/dismiss the notification and let it auto-settle in 24 hours.
I didn’t realise this would have so much opposition Putting aside how Flex was ‘supposed’ to be used or how I use it. Doesn’t it just make sense for small transactions to just ‘auto-settle’ since there’s actually no other option for the user anyway?