Are we able to categorise monies received from other monzo users? If not, I think this would be a good feature. I thought this a while ago but now we have spending targets, it makes more sense. For example, me and the other half have a date night and I pay the bill with my hot coral card and assign it to “eating out”. Being a modern and inclusive bunch we split the cost, she sends me half the bill for the dinner. I wish I could allocate this cash recieved to “eating out” therefore halving the impact that particular meal has on my “eating out” target.
If I have overlooked a simple way to do this, I apologise for my ineptitude!
It would be great when someone transfers you money to be able to move it into a category so that your spending in that category is accurate.
E.g. If you pay for a meal and your friend sends you half, at the moment you can’t attribute that transfer to eating out so your eating total is higher than it actually is.
Maybe someone has already posted this - but what about being able to categorise incoming payments? For example, this morning I purchased three gig tickets which came out of my entertainment budget, and two friends transferred money to me via Monzo. It would be great if I could categorise those received payments into entertainment so that my personal budget isn’t messed up and only reflects my personal spend.
I’ve moved your post here (having moved it to a not so relevant post first ) so that you can see the comments from the Monzo team, about their plans for this feature, which have been summarised in this topic.
If you have any more questions / suggestions that we’ve missed, please do share them
Hi there. Building on the above I was thinking that it would be great if there could be an option for the daily spend number to net off transfers from other Monzo users.
E.g. I bought a round of drinks for £25 yesterday, used Monzo.me to get paid back £20 by friends (all very easy) so I only actually spent £5. However my daily spend figure still reflected the whole £25.
I don’t use the in category budget at the moment, only the total daily spend as a budgeting tool. Thanks!
I’ve recently come back from a holiday in Norway where I successfully used my Monzo card (Android version) for all POS and ATM transactions. I noticed that the spending column doesn’t subtract money coming in from transfers, and this almost always happens when you’re traveling and splitting the bill on multiple items. All credits in a category should be subtracted from the spending total. I was wondering if it’s possible to incorporate this feature if it is not already available, thanks!
So, usually, lots of people I know use Monzo.
The issue is If I pay for dinner and people pay me back I can’t assign the payments so that it impacts the spending report. So my spending data is totally off.
E.g. If I pay 150 for dinner and 4 people pay me back 30, my spending report just counts the 150 and I can’t factor in the payment…
Yes, the current Targets implementation is pretty basic, and doesn’t work well if you have expenses or are paid back (or have to use cash a lot). There’s some discussion of this in the following thread, including a workaround from @alexs and an indication from @hugo that these issues will eventually be addressed (presumably after current accounts are launched ):
I have a set of targets against various buckets such as eating out. When my girlfriend and I go to a restaurant, one of us pays and the other then Monzos them half the bill as it’s faster.
However, I don’t want to see a £100 bill come out of my target for eating out when I’ve decided to split the cost of the transaction within the Monzo app (the one who pays chooses this from their Monzo app and selects split with one other person).
Given that the above has occurred, I would expect half of the bill to be added back onto my eating out spending target. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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