Core App: Better payments

[Paulw (Paul)]

Looks like payees hub has gone from Labs. Shame no more work was done on payments

[jzw95]

Isn’t it gone from labs because it’s now been rolled out to everyone?

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Yeah, the development was obviously fixed in scope and didn’t include things like payee images for example. Not disappointing by any means, but possibly an opportunity missed for some ‘polished details’

[Paulw (Paul)]

Yes that’s what I meant. Could have explained better

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

Its sad to see another half finished part of the app pushed out and then abandoned

[Jays6]

We need payee pictures 🥲

[rickyzalman]

Any updates on payee pictures @robinb?

[gallifreyangirl]

I think this had now been left for other projects.

[Paulw (Paul)]

Rather large Invite friends button has appeared for me on the Payments page. Takes you to the share sheet (iOS) to choose a contact. The link for the recipient takes them here. The button could be smaller imo as it makes the Favourites section cut off at the bottom of the screen.

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

I’ve just received the big invite thing too (after the Android app updated to version 4.7.1 overnight):

Tapping on it shows this:

Tapping on ‘Share your invite’ then gives you a link URL in the format “🎉 You’re invited!”

Likely to be the recent referrals introduction to the feature flags:

<boolean name="signup_referral_give_5_get_5_enabled" value="false" />

But what is the ‘5’ ? A hidden bonus of some kind after 5 successful referrals ???

EDIT: it’s a different flag that was enabled between app version 4.7.0 and 4.7.1:

<boolean name="signup_referrals_enabled" value="true" />

[Rat_au_van (Em)]

£5 for you and £5 for them

They used to do that

[Alexxxxx (>50 categories pls)]

Yeah it’s ridiculously big on my iPhone XS. Really not necessary.

I know it’s for marketing so that’s what matters to Monzo above all else, but I genuinely only have one or two friends not on Monzo. And I’ve personally invited most of them who are.

So I really can’t invite any more, no matter how big and obtrusive the invite button is

[Dunsford (Colin Robinson)]

Seems ok on an iPhone 13 Pro (with its bigger screen?)

[mikez]

Still taking up a lot of space, though. I wondered why my favourites had shifted down the screen this morning…

[gallifreyangirl]

Yes just noticed it appear.

[Alexxxxx (>50 categories pls)]

That’s made me notice that it would be less bad for me if I didn’t have a joint account due to the extra move money option at the top…

@davidwalton the persecution continues

[Revels]

I can’t believe they’ve added something to hopefully increase revenue/customers that means you have to look towards the bottom of the screen to see your favourites rather than just below the middle. It’s like they never even consider the hardship this will cause.

[Ordog]

What if you don’t have any friends?

[nathanthomson8 (Nathan)]

It needs to be removable or you can ex it out. To have that constantly there is such an eye sore

[Carlo1460]

Surely nobody is making that many payments for it to be such an inconvenience.