I’d also like to have favourites and recents removed from the all payees page. It seems silly to have it on the main page and then the all payees page.
Surely I wouldve gone to All Payees because who i wanted wasn’t in favourites or recent? To then have to scroll past them to again to get to All is a little annoying UX wise
Agree with this.
I think it makes sense to have favourites and recents in the main section, Pay someone section and Request sections, but not in the Payees Hub.
Yeah I really detest that the amount/description page and the details page arent combined.
Such a waste of space and clicks
Having played about with this a bit. It would be good if Favourites can be reordered plus can a payee individual account also be a favourite?
I think those in Favourite or Recent should be quick links to the payment screen of the account last paid. Currently 2 presses to reach the payment screen from a favourite.
The payee hub shouldn’t have Favourites or Recents in imo and instead should just hold all the A-Z info about your payees and all the accounts they hold.
yeah this would be really useful and save a few clicks if i could see a few of my accounts as favourites.
However would be a UI nightmare because all id see is Nathan Thomson 4 times and the NT logo, with no way to tell them apart.
Alot smarter people than me at monzo, hopefully they could think of a nice way around that. Be that a bank logo top right like pots?
I thought you could consolidate all the accounts under one name now.
A few observations I’ve made while testing the new payee feature:
If I edit a payees name after making a payment to them, this update doesn’t pull through to the live feed. Should it?
If I’ve merged other bank and Monzo details to a single payee and then send money to that persons other bank, their name and photo don’t appear in my feed as they do for then I send money to their Monzo account. I think this will be addressed in a coming update though so I’ll keep 
for that!
No, I don’t think it should. Your subsquently changing the payee name later doesn’t change the fact that at the time the payment was made to the original payee name. It may sound like I’m splitting hairs here, but given that the transaction feed is your “record of truth” which can’t be amended, I think that same logic applies.
I think I disagree. It’s the same principle as merchant enrichment - I’d see managing your payees as the same process as fixing a merchant name.
I think it’d be a half job if they didn’t do this, personally.
Yeah you can and I have now combined them all but at the same time it would be nice if i could jump to pay one of the accounts directly from favourites as opposed to having to click my name then choose the account.
Maybe being pernickety but im all for streamlining things, id find more benefit from seeing 3 of my accounts/payees listed in favourites which i could jump straight to paying than 5 combined contacts which i dont pay all that often but are there to pad out my favourites.
Fair point, well made.
I disagree here, it needs to be the source of truth. If i decide to delete that payee later which I quite often do, I still want it to show up in my feed and statements as who i had it set as when i sent them money, otherwise how would you ever narrow it down in that situation
Why not have it both ways?
I think a deleted payee should retain the last saved name/reference.
But if youve updated a payee it should be reflected across all older transactions.
So that’s not what you see currently. You currently see the “recipient name” (i.e. the legal name attached to the account) which can be (and often is) different to the payee name.
I’m saying that in the feed, the recipient names should be replaced with the payee name (and picture when that ships). If you subsequently delete the payee (and therefore the payee name) it should revert to the recipient name.
(Ideally I’d like some indication as to which of my accounts a payment has come from / gone to. Maybe the first line of the notes field?)
I totally agree, some design wizardry would be needed here to make it work. I like your suggestion of bank logo’s 
I’m not sure I’d like that. Some of the recipients I’ve bundled under my payee name for my own accounts are organisations (e.g. my Freetrade account has account name Freetrade). I think in the feed I prefer it to say ‘you sent Freetrade’ than 'you sent [my payee name]’
Something like this would be essential if the feed name switched from account/recipient name to the grouped payee name. I wouldn’t use notes field though since that is user-editable.
It’s tricky to know what put where, isn’t it? I have my credit card under “me” but Freetrade under, well, Freetrade. I think I’m working on the basis of whether the account I’m sending to is in my name is not…
Anyway, if this did happen I’d probably end up splitting “me” into a bunch of separate payees and give them all individual names and logos (“Marcus Savings Account” etc).
Oh I totally agree. But I think that the odds of getting a new field are slim and I was clutching at a way that it might be doable in the UI - albeit suboptimally.
I use the account name the company provides in the instruction they give on how to make transfers. Investment platforms are invariably explicit on this but for some reason credit card companies aren’t 
However, I tend to pay credit card bills by direct debit or debit card rather than bank transfer.
I couldn’t go back to that! I really like having everything me-related grouped under my “me” payee.
I do too! But I think easily seeing which of my accounts I’m moving money to/from on the feed trumps that!
Is there a way to link an incoming payment sender to a payee? Think you can do it with Starling but not Monzo, the incoming name is different and be being as anal as I am, I think it would be nice to have them the same if they’re the same payee obviously?