Thanks for the feedback @JIMMWX, I will share this with the squad today 
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On a personal note on bill splits. I have 2 that I canāt get rid of. I must have split them but now the split screen is gone so I donāt know who I split with and I canāt cancel my end. May just be an old bug but itās really annoying. I asked chat once. They couldnāt help then I gave up. Posting here in case the issue is more widespread!
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Worth asking again, then a complaint if they shrug their shoulders a second time?
I know there are sometimes difficulties around these things, but Monzo does need to own it. Itās their app, after all!
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Agreed. Itās just the energy to do it. Just a mild inconvenience. Has been 3 years. Maybe they should no more. Also I assume in the backend they should see what is triggering it being there!
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It just doesnāt work with budgets. If I split a bill of say, Ā£100 and I get Ā£50 back, I would expect this to be added back to my budget. Budgeting is basically broken and useless for me without this!
Have you tagged the receiving payment the same as the spending category to balance it out?
Ā£100 out for food
Ā£50 in for food
Ā£50 spent on food
Unless you mean the overall budget figure for the period you set, then Iām not sure how to fix that bit 
Here are my thoughts on potential improvements to social payment features. For each section (Bill splits and payment requests, Shared tabs, Other), Iāve listed the features/improvements in order of my personal preference.
Looking forwards to seeing the improvements in Monzoās social payments features!
Bill splits and payment requests
ā¢ Being able to send reminders for payment requests like you can with bill splits.
ā¢ Tracking of monzo.me bill split payments and monzo.me payment requests, so they get marked as paid (this could also be useful for Monzo Business customers who use the feature to get paid for invoices via monzo.me).
ā¢ Including a note when you send a bill split, so you can explain what a bill split is for.
ā¢ Split received money.
ā¢ Being able to bill split the remaining amount after already sending a bill split for that transaction.
ā¢ Share receipts when sending a bill split.
ā¢ Editing bill splits.
Shared tabs
ā¢ Partially settle a shared tab.
ā¢ Being able to add a note/description of what the transaction is for when adding an item to a shared tab and being able to add a receipt/share a receipt added to your transaction.
ā¢ Calculate splits in local currency. The issue of transactions needing time to settle would need to be overcome.
ā¢ Different options when dividing up a shared tab item (percentages, shares - basically what Splitwise has).
Other
ā¢ I think it would be good to be able to share your account details from Payments ā Request, since that seems like a natural place to find that option (this might be more of a general payments feature, but seems easy to implement?).
ā¢ Monzo-to-Monzo recurring payments. This would make Monzo easier to use with other Monzo users (network effects etcā¦).
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Would love to be able to bulk pay splits from one or multi people.
For example, me and partner split everything and sometimes they build up. So Iād like to click select all and repay him without needing to go into each split individually.
We split rather than have a shared tab because it doesnāt categories on his account correctly else and he likes to track what he spends.
Hey @awjdean 
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Thanks for all this great feedback. Weāre enjoying digesting it all as a squad so please keep it coming.
I just wanted to quickly address this point:
Tracking of monzo.me bill split payments and monzo.me payment requests, so they get marked as paid
If I am understanding you correctly, then Iām pleased to say this is something we quietly introduced earlier this year, whereby if a friend of yours uses the monzo.me link you sent them it should reconcile against the transaction when it eventually gets paid. On the transaction detail it should be marked just like any paid Monzo payment would.
We still have some work to do there (eg what to do instead of āFriend 1ā!) but hopefully this will help you keep your finances just that little bit tidier 
Thanks again!
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Another employee said the same above. But to be very blunt, as maybe I was too coy in my post about this further up in the thread. Whatever you quietly introduced, it does not work. Never has. My brother on Starling paying me back for his share of the Sky Mobile bill never gets counted, even when paying with the Monzo.me link. Assuming my family who are on Monzo actually pay via the request, itās always his that are left outstanding as friend 1.
Edit: unless by earlier in the year you mean after June 26th. The last time I did a bill split with my brother on a birthday present for someone. He only ever pays me using the Monzo.me link.
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What steps are you taking to share the link with your brother? Once youāve split the bill with someone not on Monzo, there should be a āShare request linkā button on the bill split widget which will give you a unique link to share with that person. This link is different to what we had before and also different from your general Monzo.me link - itās completely unique to that transaction and that userās share of that transaction.
Weāve just tested on both Android and iOS and all is working exactly as weād expect. 
If youāre still having trouble with this experience after trying the steps above then feel free to send me the request link and we can take a deeper look for you! 
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I donāt think thereās a way for me to check in the app but Iām pretty sure itāll be the link Iām provided with when splitting it.
Whether or not itās the link my brother uses, Iām not sure. I have one of the old plus vanity URLs with just my initials, which is easy to remember and type. Iāll have to ask, but I presume heād just click the link I send on Signal.
Iāll run a test with him later and report back with screenshots etc to document everything.
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Yeah if heās using your Monzo.me vanity URL then it wonāt reconcile. Your brother has to be using the exact link we provide on the bill split widget. This requires you to share it every time you bill split with someone not on Monzo as itās completely unique and they canāt just use the same link they did last bill split.
Keen to see how your testing goes later! 
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Thatās great news! Thanks for the update!
Out of interest, does the unique monzo.me link expire after it has been used to pay the bill split ?
Being able to edit the name (friend 1 etcā¦) would be a nice addition I think.
Yep, sorry I didnāt make it clear when I said āmonzo.me link you sent themā, I meant the one generated from the bill-split 
+1 to losing the āFriend 1ā. As a squad we have the non-Monzo payment experience (both on the sending and receiving end) very much on our minds. The feature weāre discussing is just a tiny step towards smoothing that out.
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Apologies for the delay. I did test this last night and began writing out this post, but then a personal crisis occurred so I didnāt have time to finish and post.
My brother wasnāt available (still at work!) so ran the test with a different friend.
Step 1: pick a transaction to split! I like this one:
This a bit of a UX problem, which is important, and thatāll become clear later. I didnāt screenshot it in this attempt because I wasnāt expecting it to be a crucial point in the flow, but this screen:
Tapping request money is the end of the flow. Takes you right back to the transaction. The app doesnāt make a distinction with the share link option, and I think itās important to make because I suspect itās slipping other folks up as well.
Now, back to step 2:Select a character!
Second from the left under the black bar.
Step 3: send the link
Step 4: receive the payment so head back to the app.
Still greyed out on the transaction page, which was expected from past experience.
Step 5: Go to the transaction to confirm it had actually been received in case the notification lied to me.
Yup! Time stamped the same time as the prior screenshot. But then I noticed the payment had identified a linked payment, so I tapped that. Lo and behold:
It worked! Thatās quite the twist I wasnāt expecting.
I went back and checked my messages to my brother, and then correlated this with the Monzo feed. It seems the issue here is, in part, one of user error, I suspect as a result of the current UX with the dead-ended flow. My links havenāt always been the unique link.
The transactions donāt auto refresh to reflect when these friends pay you either. So thereās some instances where it looked like they hadnāt at the time of receiving the payment, but having gone back through, two of them have since propagated, but not every one of them, though again, I donāt know if in those instances he clicked the unique link, or used an old one, or what. He doesnāt remember either. Iāll go back to using the feature and keep an eye on it.
In order for that Waggel transaction to confirm the bill split had been paid I had to tap through to it from their payment. Going to it from my feed meant it was still greyed out with the blue share request link text.
I wish it wasnāt so reliant on the other users to do things the right way to actually count it though. Or a manual way to apply a payment to a bill split would be nice so I can finally get rid of this long list:
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This!
Monzo 1.0 seemed to want to automate everything. Some of it worked, quite a lot (like predicted outgoings in Summary) didnāt. Having the ability to manage things manually and tidy things up would be neat.
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Thereās one little automation that could work quite well here though. The payment link which links the payment to the bill also collects the personās name. Should be fairly straightforward for Monzo to link that name to the friend on the transaction, and display that as opposed to friend 1.
That would be welcome. I think some folks were asking for a way to do this manually above, but I think this is an instance where the automated way might be bother better in the end result, and the easier to build in the short term.
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Oh yes, automate where you can. But properly and effectively, and with the ability to override if needed!
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I think it would also be useful if the non-Monzo bill splits showed up under Shared payments along with Monzo-to-Monzo bill splits (if they donāt already).
Basically, as much feature parity between Monzo-to-Monzo bill splits, non-Monzo bill splits, and Monzo-to-Monzo payment requests would be great, so that once the requests are sent they are all treated the same.
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