# Incoming payment to negate spending

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/incoming-payment-to-negate-spending/6937>\
**Category:** Feedback & Ideas\
**Created:** [14 December 2016 14:17 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/incoming-payment-to-negate-spending/6937 "2016-12-14T14:17:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![anon27662828](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@anon27662828](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon27662828)\
**Post date:** [14 December 2016 14:17 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/incoming-payment-to-negate-spending/6937/1 "2016-12-14T14:17:45Z")

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If I buy a takeaway on my card for me and a friend worth 10 quid (5 each) and then get sent 5 quid by my friend I should be able to assign that income against the takeaway in the spending tab so that the spending tab is accurate (shows 5 not 10)

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**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\
**Post date:** [14 December 2016 14:22 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/incoming-payment-to-negate-spending/6937/2 "2016-12-14T14:22:06Z")

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This issue has also been discussed here -

> [@Refund allocation 1](https://community.monzo.com/t/refund-allocation/6478):
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> Hi, I have just received a refund for an item I purchased last month, but now that it’s refunded it is accounting in this months spending targets. It would be nice if there was a way to ‘allocate’ the refund to the correct month/purchase so that my spending is a true representation of my months spending. This my be an overkill feature, but I use Monzo as a budgeting tool and in This current process it’s becomes a little more difficult to see my total spending per month. Lee

& more recently, investigated here -

> [@Incoming payment categorisation](https://community.monzo.com/t/month-spend-options/5870/15):
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> So to clarify, should the monthly total spent be the sum of all debits minus credits? When the sending money feature was released on android I tried it out and the money I received wasn’t included, which I find a bit annoying. I used the app to chat to Monzo and they confirmed that it isn’t a bug and isn’t supposed to be included but this post here is saying the opposite?

I have a feeling this will be fixed pretty soon -

> [@Incoming payment categorisation](https://community.monzo.com/t/month-spend-options/5870/7):
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> Yeah, that’s something we need to fix too. We’re about to start working on money requests and bill splitting so we’ll add this to the list. Thanks!