Another thought on this
Starling ended up with support for Fitbit Pay and Samsung Pay as they use GPS as a third party payment processor
Monzo do not have it as it would be a large task to develop their in house payment processor to support it
Revolut are currently developing an in house solution and Starling may have to or choose to in time
Might support for these watch pay solutions actually decrease for at least a time?
I’m sorry but as an upstart business, most of the initial tasks will be expensive and have a level of uncertainty, however its all about making your service accessible. If you don’t adopt you risk losing out in the long run. If you do adopt and it proves fruitless the future business profits should soften the blow. This is laziness on Monzo’s part.
Wow, doubling down on calling them lazy I see
Will stick with my original point
I use Fitbit Pay quite often with Starling, it’s a handy feature. I bet a fair few of Monzo’s customers would use it if available.
Yes I am doubling down. Whilst I understand the issues that Monzo would face, nearly all major competitors offer integration with one, if not both of these Wear OS competitors. I say lazy as Monzo have been fielding that same lame excuse for not supporting Samsung Pay since I joined the service last year. I call this laziness and a large oversight.
Monzo position themselves as the future of banking and it seems ridiculous that they wouldn’t adopt devices of the future, yet legacy banks do.
So you’re saying that having a negative opinion is ‘lazy’. That’s both insulting and condescending.
Looks like only one legacy bank supports Fitbit pay → Fitbit Pay Bank & Transit Support List
Santander is the only one I know of. It’s the only reason I have a credit card from them.
And on that list Revolut might not (for a while at least) have it after moving from GPS to RevP either
Not at all. Having a negative opinion is perfectly fine.
Inventing a negative narrative to explain something is different and is less fine in my view.
I want Fitbit pay so I share the negative opinion on its absence. I don’t know why they haven’t provided it so I’m not prepared to ascribe that to a negative attitude in Monzo because I don’t know if that’s a true situation.
Another newb who would LOVE Monzo for Fitbit Pay… I’m with Santander because I love Fitbit Pay… if/when Monzo join the fun that would be the deal breaker that makes me switch bank accounts 
Following this thread with interest (and hope)
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Make that 2. Danske is a legacy bank my friend. Also Starling is on Fit Bit. I agree that the numbers are small, but the growing number of Fit Bit owners means it won’t stay small for long. Monzo needs to get on that train early.
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Please please please. I want Fitbit pay
Careful. It only takes one emoji to get banned 
If Fitbit Pay is essential enough to your daily spend, then I guess that is the right answer for you, but switching salary as well is maybe a bit drastic
You could just pop over some money to Starling for your watch/band each month like I do HSBC for my mortgage
Anyhow, let us know how it goes
If Starling better suits your needs you should absolutely go for it.
It seems to not be a very popular feature here.