That would be fairly awesome. I assume iOS can’t read the notification from American Express?
From what @Josdaw has said above I don’t think it’s possible on iOS using IFTTT. It might be possible using some other method, but I’m Full Android unfortunately so can’t test.
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This all looks epic - Top work @Josdaw!
As a heavy Amex user, I’d love to use this, but I never hold much money in my current account (it’s always transferred as soon as I’m paid to a savings account, and then transferred out from the savings account at the end of the month to pay the bill).
But, it looks like it’s one step closer to everything being automated!
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I have these two applets to add my Amex transactions to my Amex pot.
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Try importing the shortcut from here:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e56e6d80055f422ea8693a26e73c170e
Make sure there’s no spaces or anything in your key and remember that it’ll be case sensitive. Besides that I’m not sure what it could be…
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This kicks ass! Automate all the things!
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That’s exactly what I did! 
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So that actually worked. I noticed my IFTTT key changed. Also I notice the shortcut you shared included a variable: VarMaker, which I didn’t see in the guide. Was that potentially an issue?
Potentially something key related then.
varMaker was an additional one I had to put into this amended version so I could cater for different event names (I.e. amex_monzo) when you import it. The original doesn’t have it in there.
Glad it’s all working now!
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I freaking love this and I’m setting it up when I get home 
Amazing! I had a hunch that would work, great to see how to do it.
We really need a “how to” place to store all these useful hacks…
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I have copied exactly these apps (although for the sheets app I designated the app name as ‘Google Pay’) but it is not working. I have received two Google Pay notifications for amex since setting them up and no lines have been added to my spreadsheet - any advice?
Thank you!
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There are various things you can try to isolate where it’s failing. First you could try and change the app to WhatsApp (or any other app that you get lots of notifications from) and see if that is writing lines to the spreadsheet - if so there must be an issue with reading the Google Pay notifications. If another app doesn’t work either, it might be a problem with your connection to Google Sheets. To test this, create a new applet that sends you an SMS rather than writes a line to a Sheet, whenever notifications from a certain app are received. If that works, reading the notifications is fine but you’ll need to work out why the connection to Sheets is failing.
Feel free to PM if you need any further advice.
If you had changed the App Name from Google Play services to Google Pay, that’s the issue.
AWESOME. 
Quick q - how trustworthy is IFTTT considering they have access to your Monzo data? I’m not trolling (honest!), just wondering how much they can be trusted in this regard. It’s not using the OpenBanking APIs so there’s a risk here of data loss.
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The fact that Monzo have their own site within IFTTT suggests that Monzo is happy with the trustworthiness level of IFTTT.
After the fiasco at Curve and the subsequent negative reaction by customers I think it best to steer clear from any integration with Amex. I don’t think Amex would be interested either.
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I don’t think any Monzo integration with Amex would be seen in the same way. The general gist of this thread is that people would like to see their Amex spending within Monzo, possibly with any money spent on the Amex set aside automatically, and possibly paid off automatically too. Amex already allow integration with services like Yolt, so I can’t see why they’d be against this. If anything, it would encourage me to spend more on my Amex than I do at present.
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As I said, I don’t believe Amex would be interested and I would steer clear of them.