With MasterCard having changed the way the foreign currency transactions are done so the amount doesn’t change so it has reduced the amount the feed can change.
Maybe have some way of showing that the relevant part of the running balance is pending so may still change would be a way to get around that issue.
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Almost as if people didn’t make foreign transactions in the prepaid days.
After all, the Current Account balance has to update when a transaction in a foreign currency is settled.
I’m new to Monzo but I miss being able to see the balance at the time of transaction - 2 days ago I bought some items from Amazon and since then I have added money to my account and there have been other transactions but I can’t see how close to being overdrawn I was… that kind of info is invaluable for me to help me avoid those situations in the future.
Well, who knows, it may come back as one of the feed updates they are working on, but it was probably the biggest “drop-off” from the original app design, unless you were a Pulse cultist (pulse pulse pulse)
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Oh the drama of it.
Good to hear the pulse (pulse pulse) mentioned again, though. Very nostalgic.
I do miss the pulse. Monzo has always had a very top heavy interface, but the pulse made much better use of that space than the current UI elements do IMO.
A lot of promising stuff already announced for tackling the feed though, and hopefully more to come with the hints that have been dropped! Hopefully a running balance returning in some form will be part of that!
Gosh I wish I could see my balance. It is so basic when it comes to banking.
Slide right / hold and press transaction. Anything that will just let me see my money over time, without a dozen clicks and presses feels such a core online banking concept to have removed (yes, we used to have it!).
Monzo’s next million customers will be mom-and-pop. They will not appreciate the wizadry of:
API’s
CSV’s
PDF’s
“exclude transaction from summary”
… they will do their banking reconciliation as they have done for years by looking at their balance. They will be turned off by features that complicate that process.
I work in tech, software dev. I work on API’s. Even I don’t want to be bothered by all of this.
I think this is one of the things that put me off Monzo. It does have a lot of features, but many of them weren’t useful for me. Like you say, something as simple as this would be more helpful than some of the other things Monzo has.
I do hope they focus a bit more time on making sure the core banking features are extremely good in the next few months.
Yes! I agree, although I do love many features of Monzo, this is one of the main reasons why I currently only use my Monzo account for small/random purchases and when overseas. I am unlikely to use Monzo as my main banking provider until this and a few other features are introduced. It makes it harder to quickly notice or track any discrepancies and weirdly that makes me untrustworthy of the app.