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Making Monzo Sneak Peeks (Archived)
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Hi everybody,

As promised (sorry for making you wait), here are a few screenshots to share with you some of the good stuff that we’re planing for the upcoming Monzo current accounts.

So, here it is, the freshly-updated and smarter-than-ever Spending tab.

First thing you’ll notice is that we are playing with the idea of renaming this tab, maybe “Breakdown” or “Analysis”. In essence we want to reflect the fact that Monzo is not just a spending card but a full bank account that will also track your income, savings, etc.

We’ll give you an update about categories :soon: but you can already see here some of them along new features and adjustments around expenses and holiday tracking.

On this other set of screens you can see how targets will work with this new approach. The main difference is that potentially a Target is not longer necessarily a “Spending” target but maybe “Savings” or even an “Income” one (if you’re a freelance and want to set as an objective earning a certain amount of money). There are tons of ramifications here but I think you get the idea with this teaser.

Additionally we’ll use the same visualisation to show you how many days are left to the end of the period (for some people this will be payday to payday, for others maybe just a calendar month, or a week, or two random dates). The basic idea is that you’ll be able to see how many days you still need to stretch that money left :money_with_wings:

I think that’s all for now, please give it a thought and let me know if you think this would work for you, ideas and suggestions :slight_smile:

Thanks!
Hugo

PS: @Naji is putting a system in place so we post new sneak peeks every week, you’re going to love it.

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@hugo maybe we can not flag it as spam haha :joy: your posts now thanks :slight_smile:

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Looks fantastic Hugo! Thanks for the preview!!

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Love it! I really like how we will be able to track spending with ‘days left’, will really help with knowing how much money I really have.

The committed it perfect! Not sure I have seen my direct debits and standing ordered laid out like this anywhere.

Good work! Can’t wait to see more… and to start using obviously!

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The “committed” spends is exactly what I was hoping for. Looking great.

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looks awesome! I have been using other apps to display my income and spendings like this. so happy it will all be done through monzo :smiley:

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This looks amazing :heart_eyes:

On top of the things Hugo & the replies in this thread have mentioned, I spotted a new category ‘personal care’.

And following on from his comment -

it looks like some sort of sub-category functionality could be on the way, which would possibly enable custom categories :eyes:

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Perhaps this could serve well as the next sneak peek :wink:

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Looks sick. I cannae wait. The way that you have put subcategories within expenses looks fucking brilliant. Hopefully you will be able to do the same for holiday.

Like Alex I am also eager to see what the ‘personal care’ category is all about.

And the committed and income tab look brill n all.

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Is the whole savings pot thing coming later?

The days to go indicator looks perfect :smile:

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Surely the cash marked ‘COMMITTED’ is from savings pots? We just haven’t been shown its breakdown yet?

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Based on the third phone on the first image, committed looks to be known outgoings for the rest of the month? These include standing orders you set up from Monzo in addition to predicted Direct Debits and regular subscriptions being pulled from the card.

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A couple more things (I’m not adding these to my previous post because it’s already been liked)…

At first I was concerned that the circle at the top of the window took up too much space but actually they’ve packed a lot of information into it :slight_smile:

Secondly (& maybe this is just a ‘power user’ concern), I’d be interested to hear whether any changes will be made to the category :traffic_light: alerts, now that the ‘x days to go’ marker has been added.

I assume that the days to go marker will simply show what % of the month remains. But the category alerts have an assumption / contingency built in - that the user could decrease their spending, to an amount that’s 20% less than their target divided divided by the number of days in the month aka their daily allowance, if they spent too quickly at the beginning of the month - which could cause a mismatch between the alerts & the days to go marker.

In other words, the shaded section of the circle which shows what % of their target the user has spent, could be past the days to go marker - which would suggest that the user is not on track to meet their target. But the category alert would still be green because of the 20% contingency…

That’s obviously not the first question that users will have about this change :slight_smile: but it would be good to hear whether or not the contingency will be changing at some point.

Oh & breakdown > analysis - keep it casual :monzo:

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Ah yeah, I see that now. But I would expect the savings pots to be listed here too, since it would be money committed to savings for holidays, new car, buying a home etc.

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Yeah I was wondering about that. If it had gone past the line and was still green, users would likely get a bit confused. I suspect that the marker will actually be slightly further ahead than the true proportion in order to handle this.

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The committed spend is a fantastic feature! Thanks for sharing it :smile: Looking forward to the current accounts even more now

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Looking tight. Now I just need my current account to enjoy the goodies. I assume I’ll be getting that any day now :troll:

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I think this is really shaping up into a usable feature for managing personal budgets. And great work on the designs @hugo.

However my budget and payments are joint. Mortgage, loans, council tax.

Are joint accounts on the roadmap?

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They’re in Monzo’s plans but not on the actual roadmap yet :slight_smile:

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Something usefull would be good maybe apple pay :moneybag: previews or of current account :relieved:@hugo