Flagify

Feedback & Ideas
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Add a small flag icon to each transaction that has been made to show which country the transaction has been made in.

This should be a settings option so it can be toggled on or off, maybe also have an option to hide home country flag?

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Oh, thatā€™s going to be controversial REALLY quickly. Cyprus is a prime example were you are prone to upset someone either way, but there are a good number of other countries as wellā€¦

How does Monzo handle travel to those areas anyway? E.g. if you travel to Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Bir Tawil etc, which country does it show? Just curiousā€¦

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Or Catalunya, the Basque country, Wallonia or Flanders, Walesā€¦It really is best to avoid all that debate.

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Well just follow FCO rules. While controversial, they exist and there are contentious areas (such as Taiwan) but there are official rules (eg. we donā€™t recognise Taiwan as a country).

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This is certainly an option. But as I said: You will be prone to upset someone either way.

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FCO rules, MasterCard International, etc, may all use different country lists. It really is better just avoiding the issue.

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Although Monzo are of course already issuing travel reports etc, so they are already dealing with the issue some way or anotherā€¦ The already show some country when you make a purchase in, say, Northern Cyprus, or Taiwan, or Palestine, etcā€¦

But I agree that flags tend to be even more controversial.

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FYI Northern Cyprus shows as Turkey and even on Android the flag doesnā€™t appear in the emoji

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Especially here in northern ireland :joy: people do alot of silly things over ā€œflegsā€

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Iā€™m guessing the current country comes from wherever MasterCard have the business registered to??
As already mentioned this is likely what Monzo use to show the country of purchase. While I agree that in some locations the identity is a controversial matter at the end of the day that business will have to be registered with MasterCard in some country or another.

I just thought it would be nice to see it at a glance. Especially if you travel a lot and then scroll back through your spending history - maybe it could be an opt-in type thing with a disclaimer saying something to the above effect

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Use the country reported by MasterCard? If anyone is offended they are more than welcome to scream at MasterCard to get that changed. :slight_smile:

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I have no objection to this concept whatsoever.

Yes, you will get those I like to term the Professionally Upset who will be all wailing and gnashing of teeth about the quasi-political implications of showing one flag over another, but for 99% of people I suspect this wonā€™t be an issue. As @anon23935806 says, use the country reported by MasterCard and let them take the brunt.

As for making it opt-in with a new setting, this would be yet another thing they would get upset about, only this time because theyā€™d struggle to find the setting. Iā€™d just switch it on and be done with it.

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For countries: yes. But flags and countries are different things. As such @anon44204028ā€™s examples are better than mine

There is no question about the country here. But flags? well, thatā€™s a different matter ā€¦

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Solution: add a toggle in Settings that replaces flags with text-only initials of the country code like ā€œFRā€ or ā€œDEā€.

As a side note, I canā€™t believe weā€™ve come so far that displaying country flags has become a source of offense and arguments. :joy:

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Iā€™ll leave this one here. I guess API developers had similar issues??

http://countryflags.io

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Oh it very much is! The Union Flag remains contentious as ever with all itā€™s myriad of political connotations (northern Ireland, the National Front, Westminster rule over Scotland, the Empire, etc), and only recently I have seen first hand QuĆ©bĆ©coise objecting to the Canadian flag.

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Disputes about flags are about as old as flags, I believeā€¦

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I think we should go by whatever the government let you write on your driving license, if you were born there.

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Flags are highly political here and anywhere there is dispute about sovereignty. Would alienate a lot of people. Avoid at all costs.

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Flanders is in Wales???
So Iā€™ve been wasting a lot of time, energy and diesel (more energy) travelling to Belgium??

But hey, letā€™s notā€¦