Launching Pots

Hows about a NEST pot for pensions? (I think thats the defualt one most companies sign to?)

So many options I would stick with customizing them to suit your individual needs. What I would like to see is categories assigned to pots. (Lunch pot that debits when I go to Costa, EAT etc.) and

Why would these things need pots? You get paid, your mortgage, bills, pension etc. go out, and then what’s left you can organise into pots…?

Wages in and bills out might not be the same date. Pots would ring fence them for peace of mind.

I’m guessing, not that it matters how they want to use their pots.

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Pots are not a solution to someone wanting/needing a second account. It’s barely a solution to savings given there’s no interest paid.

Granted It’s a quick way to group money.

However anyone serious about saving is better off using an interest paying account elsewhere as a ‘external pot’. Anyone wanting / needing current account functionality on a second account is just forced to use another provider.

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Remember the integration with other services was going to be in the UI as pots. So I think it is a valid point.

In my example, it wasn’t scheduled automated payments. I just wanted to set-aside a specific amount of money for a specific physical purchase in a specific store, on a specific date.

Had my battery drained completely on my phone, I’d have had to go home to plug-in the phone to shift the pot funds, then make another journey out to the local Sainsbury’s - after I’d already visited once before on my way home.

Had the pot been set to self-destruct on Monday, it wouldn’t have made any difference if my phone battery had drained or not.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before. What would be useful for pots would be to set a target. For example I could have a pot for my holiday which is ÂŁ500 so I could see how close I was to reaching the target.

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Oh yes you mean like Starling, they have that and it is useful

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For now you could just type the target amount into the name field.

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It won’t give you a percentage progress stat or anything, but is still handy.

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Great camera btw. :camera:

No more blurry shots :+1:

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Nice thought!

I need to do that to record the monthly deposit rate for my Budget Pots.

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I know, just set up the pot today hence the low amount haha, but got a chance to play around with an a6000 recently and was really impressed. Meant to be good for high fps and 4K video as well.

Is this on Android yet?

I suppose you could manually calculate the percentage and change the name of the pot. Very clunky though and something that should be automated.

I have the A6000. I only do stills, but it’s an impressive camera.

It would be useful to be able to filter the Home view by Pot so that you can see and manage them without having to go through the Account screen. Maybe via a drop down menu? In my opinion, this would improve the UX.

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Hey :wave:

If you’ve transferred money into / out of your pot, you can see that on the main screen (transaction list)

From there you can click an individual pot movement and manage your pot from there :slight_smile:

Hi, I get that. It’s more about being able to filter the transaction list to see individual Pots. It would also be useful if transactions going out were shown in red :slight_smile: and internal transactions (i.e. between current and Pots) were shown in a different colour.

A workaround would be to use search … type the name of your Pot and all the transactions to that pot will be filtered.

This only works if your pot has a name that doesn’t appear in any other transaction. And the search currently has a bug that means emoji aren’t recognised, so you can’t use an emoji to ensure uniqueness. :disappointed: