Get Paid Early (Discussion)

Best to be safe and open a chat with Monzo to see if they can see it system side.

I’ve had it happen once. The payment still came through as expected.

Had 17 now and haven’t been selected either.

Saying that, I don’t really get it. What’s the point in getting paid a day early? It sounds cool on the face of it but I don’t get how it could have any use whatsoever?

If you need money, you still have to survive a month before pay day.

It’s not even a day early, it’s like 8 hours early.

Because why not? :grin: it just means your payday is always a day earlier

Mine still doesn’t even show as greyed out/upcoming, let alone getting it early! But never mind. :sweat_smile:

Presumably if like me you’re getting paid on Monday this month you’d be able to collect your salary on Friday?

I’m being paid twice this month and my first pending payment has no option to be paid early so I’m out :man_shrugging:t5:

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How do you know if your eligible for this? I can see the payment due in grey that’s due in on Monday

Current understanding is that it is a small scale trial at the moment so just a waiting game.

Just switched from Barclays and quite disappointed actually, this “feature” has been standard with them - I get paid on Mondays and was always able to spend the funds from Saturday morning, with Monzo I have to wait till Monday 1am… Hope this gets rolled out to everyone soon and happens automatically

I think it will be eventually rolled out to all BACS payments - but won’t be automatic. It looks (as I am not one of the chosen ones) that there is an “animation” of sorts where you pull the money down into your account.

I think there may be issues from customers if it was done automatically!

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Agreed, I wouldn’t want it automatically anyway but from what’s been said I’m fairly sure that it won’t be.

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I like getting paid early. My direct debits all come out the same day as payday or the day after.

With early pay I earn a days free extra interest and I can sort the bills out early, potentially 2 days early. Really pleased with it.

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Well Barclays does pay automatically early, at least for the past 3 years now - surely Monzo can manage that as well

No one says that can’t manage it. It’s just not what they’re proposing at the minute. As ever, things change with time so let’s see what happens.

I got paid from YouTube on Thursday saw the amount pending for 2 days… didn’t get the notification… due to get paid on Monday from my main job… can see the amount pending but I don’t think I’m one of the lucky few. :sleepy:

This is normally because your employer uses the same bank…

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I can get to the part telling me to drag the money to the wallet, but nothing happens. I cannot drag it down, it just stays in place

What version of iOS are you using? Apparently there is a known bug in iOS 13. I have the same issue.

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This sounds like the iOS 13 issue, it’s not a supported OS yet but a hacky workaround is to lock your phone when the money’s at the bottom :see_no_evil: Once it’s stable we’ll make sure it works but in successive 13 releases it’s been fixed and re-broken.

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