Create a drinking category alongside 'eating out' and 'entertainment'

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

I think the challenge here is that the activities that I would categorize as Entertainment or Eating Out often involve drinking too & I find that it’s useful to be able to distinguish between the two. Obviously there will just be nights out when you only drink but it sounds like you want to be able to total up how much you’ve spent on drinking overall.

Adding the emoji (which is what I do too) seems like a good compromise & enables you to count the number of times you’ve bought alcohol (as long as you only add it to the first transaction of the night), as the total / average spent gets messy when you buy a meal & drink, for example..

Perhaps splitting purchases into multiple transactions (along with the extra category), is the only way to truly solve this problem?

https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-multi-category-transactions/649/14?u=alexs

Either way, the categories are being reviewed in a couple of months so now’s the time for suggestions -

Category splitting feature

This is awesome @anon49245626 Thanks a lot for helping us! I hope we’ll be revisiting the category model in a few months time so we may try y to solve this problem at the same time

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Just to keep everything tied together..

There was some more discussion around creating this dedicated category here -

Separate section for bars

Would it be possible to have a separate section for bars/pubs? Can’t rightly categorise drinking into “eating out”, I think it would be good

And it was mentioned here -

Can you add a 'nights out' category, then stop me spending money on them?

I think aside from the spending limit, a category for ‘drinking’ or something along those lines rather than ‘entertainment’ or ‘eating out’ would be great.