Hey all,
Sorry for the confusion here, and any sense of deception. When putting together ‘The Big List’, not everyone was aware that this functionality currently existed (we didn’t really announce it as widely as other changes).
When it came to payees and making payments, the main thing we wanted to solve within the 12 weeks, was making sure that people didn’t have to keep re-typing references when they make payments, and that unwanted payees could be removed.
We feel that this solution solves that problem well enough for now (enough to tick that point off from the list), but it doesn’t mean we think that payee management is a solved problem.
The squad that I’m working on currently has a few additions we’d like to make that are on our backlog, we just need to balance them up with everything else on our list.
The main things we see that are worth adding are:
- Being able to create a payee without immediately paying them
- Being able to Set nicknames and optional default references for payees
- Being able to group multiple payees under a single contact (similar to a phone contact list)
The idea behind The Big List wasn’t to completely solve all of these problems within 12 weeks, but to make some improvement in the areas we heard were preventing people form using Monzo as their main account.
There’s a still a lot more to do, but I hope it feels like what has changed in the last 10 weeks still feels like an overall improvement.
Thanks again!
Jami