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I get the whole thing you’re driving at but I have to say this is so niche I can’t see it ever having a huge demand. If it said pending vs cleared that might be a start.

And I would never want it to not show in a budget category until it had cleared, the FD app does this and it’s super annoying.

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Possibly niche yeah, but just look at the votes it taking off, it’s just a matter of time I can feel it in my bones… :unamused:

You haven’t even voted for it yourself :rofl:

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All 0 of them :crazy_face: feels like a conservative broadcast that :rofl:

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Is that a thing? Boom :boom:

Im going to give you a vote purely because i love your tenacity :heart: I hope Monzo build this for you.

2 votes now… :chart_with_upwards_trend:

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All my business mates lining up to vote :unamused:
Phase 2, tax all low income means tested accounts for benefit of reconciliation function. Compulsory.

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#recon trending on twitter. Unfortunately no one is on twitter anymore.

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Hi @Indie1978 & welcome :wave:

I used to take pride in reconciling every single transaction across all of my accounts/savings/investments/assets in YNAB on a daily basis. Control-freak-ey. Then I suddenly realised it meant nothing and was actually a total waste of my time.

Ditching that workflow was massively liberating.

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Genuine question - in a personal bank account, what are you reconciling?

In Xero (or other accounting software) you’re doing a 2 way match (invoice to transaction) or 3 way match (purchase order to invoice to transaction).

But by just “ticking” the transaction in your bank feed, what do you achieve? Not being awkward, I just don’t understand the request.

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Yes personal. Business will have function in accounting software, personal doesn’t. 3-way match is an AP internal control, bank reconciliation a completely different cash process - in business terms its a vital control but not really relevant here.

Primary purpose here is to stop ad-hoc manual payments from misrepresenting your outstanding budget for the rest of the month. Essentially a quick visual check on scan that all transactions are either automatically reconciled [not hitting your budget] or have been manually reviewed to ensure they’re not effecting your budget summary.

Nope. Sorry. Still don’t understand what it is you’re trying to achieve. But, best of luck!

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Hang on, you don’t?

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This was my worm-hole.

I used to think by manually reviewing (and reconciling) every single transaction, offline/manually (often with multiple finance-logging services), with every credit/debit entity I had, I was retaining control.

Far from it. The time spent doing it was - quite frankly - insane, and just not really applicable in real life. Even with other-level-automations applied.

So with a bit of help from external influences (MrsW, JuniorW’s) in the form of ‘if you don’t stop spending hours looking at receipts and bank statements, we’ll [insert gruesome death threats]…’ I stopped. What changed with our finances when I stopped? Absolutely FA, other than I wasn’t wasting that time.

But tbf, Monzo Trends has become a real player in the quick ‘Are we on track?’ check, so I’m currently a big believer in Trends for that reason alone - I do think Trends will become a huge planning/future-looking tool for many and I’d be happy to inject experience to help develop such an important financial tool.

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Oooooooh!

Oh, wait… Oh :disappointed:

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I think I sort of get why that might be useful, now, but this seems like something trends should do in the future perhaps?

Having a filter which only shows purchases that would form part of your budget with an additional line which shows overall spend. So you can see “at a glance” how much of your spending was planned/unplanned?

That would actually be a really cool feature, I would vote for that.

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