Isn’t it about time that embossed cards were stopped, and that the card numbers were removed and placed into into the app and thermal printed the rest of the card info required?
I’d love to have more stuff fit in my wallet properly and stop my embossed cards damaging my other cards in my wallet, the Monzo card is one of the only remaining cards that I have that still has embossed characters on it.
I’d also love the option to order a card without Contactless in it too (I am fully aware that you can just set the contactless limit to £0 in the app).
I mean surely if that was the case, the sensible thing to do would be to keep the Plus and Premium cards active after the subscriptions were cancelled instead of replacing the cards? They set an odd precedent with that that is surely loss making?
But there was a definite contradiction between “Nobody uses the cards” and the excitement to get a new card when the neon ones appeared. Maybe that was for a collection and to never leave the house, in which case it being embossed and harming a wallet makes no difference.
I still use mine all the time, probably 50% time I would guess, compared to ApplePay.
Quiet, my yellow one hasn’t left my wallet since Tokyo where it was needed, my Monzo cards are made of Steel and Glass (my iPhone) or Aluminum and Glass (my apple watch)
it will never happen but it would be interesting to see the data on how many people use physical vs digital and the percentage of those who use a mixture of both and if there’s a pattern in what type of purchase they use it for ie. fuel, abroad spending etc
but it’s very rare that I use my card these days.