Exclude pots from budget

[Mcdonemi (Emily L McDonald)]

Is there a way to exclude certain pots from your overall total/budget?

As an example, I set aside money each month for Christmas pressies (and don’t want this showing in my total), and also pay myself a daily allowance (which I do want showing in my total), both of which throw off my budget. I get the ‘you’re going to run out of money’ warning at least 2 weeks away from payday because it’s not recognising money in pots.

I can see it’s been asked a few times, but the threads have expired unanswered.

Help!

[JustJordds (Jordan)]

Unfortunately all movements into pots (and the balances in them) aren’t factored into the built-in summary on Monzo.

The rational behind this is that you haven’t actually “spent” the money as yet (just sectioned it off).

What is it you’d like to be able to do? I’m not quite clear on how it would work in your ideal world!

[awjdean]

This feature has been suggested previously. You can vote for it here:

Include pot transfers in Budgets/Summary

Hi all, I wonder if any of you could see if you’re having the same issue as me. Customer Care are already looking into it but so far they don’t seem to think there is an issue, when I’m clearly seeing it. Within my Summary page, if I make a transfer to a Pot it doesn’t reflect that change within the amount of money my budget has left. According to Monzo’s description of the budget feature, that should happen. So for example I set my budget to £50, I move £10 into my Pot but the budget still s…