Redesigned Payment Screen (Early Preview) 👀

[Peter_G]

I think it depends what they do with it - it’s just that in its current form it’s largely pointless.

I did hope they might try to extend the contact standards so you could include sort code and account number in your mobile / Google / Apple address books so they could be reused across bank accounts or devices, but it looks like that won’t be happening:

Using Monzo for Contacts and Calendar (or Monzo and open standards)

I’m a big fan of ‘open standards’. These are common (or standard) ways of storing information, or systems talking to each other, that are non-proprietary - so that anyone can use them. The internet is built on them. HTML is an open standard, so are the standards that underpin email (like POP3, IMAP or SMTP) as well as a lot of stuff that we take for granted on our smartphones. But what does that have to do with Monzo? I’ve been thinking about how Monzo can help set standards for a new generat…

Instead, the half-finished(?) contacts rework seemed to suggest you could have a contact within Monzo that you could hook different accounts off of (you can kinda do that at the moment, but it’s still a pain):

Add Payees Easily

Hey all, Today we’re releasing a first small step towards our vision of making managing your payees as simple as your phone’s contact list. In the latest version of the iOS and Android apps, you can now add additional bank accounts to your existing payees, and give each one a nickname to tell them apart. To add an account to an existing payee: Tap on their name in the payee list to view the new payee profile page. Tap ‘add account’ and enter their details. You’ll then see the account listed…

It just feels messy and unfinished, imo. I’m just not sure why a button to open your contacts is useful - if you can’t put your bank details in there?