# Change to top up in Android?

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/change-to-top-up-in-android/6452>\
**Category:** Monzo Chat\
**Created:** [21 October 2016 17:50 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/change-to-top-up-in-android/6452 "2016-10-21T17:50:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 October 2016 08:03 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/change-to-top-up-in-android/6452/3 "2016-10-24T08:03:46Z")

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I think there might have been some confusion here, in the past few months since I’ve been using Monzo, manually entering a certain amount has never been an option & there’s a comment from Hugo in January, explaining why it’s not an option

> [@Top up via card](https://community.monzo.com/t/top-up-via-card/156/17):
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> Hey @billinghamj that’s a very interesting behaviour that we’re fully aware. In fact part of the Mondo team are a bit OCD about it too, the beauty of round up numbers, etc. They’re all hating me for that slight_smile The reason for not having it is twofold, classic design trade-off. We want a simple progressive input. If we bring a keyboard we need to deal with limits, decimals, errors, an extra zero can be a huge mistake and the keyboard will cover the payment buttons (so you need a dismi…

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