Scheduled withdrawal from savings pots

[joelo]

I’ve recently been using a monthly scheduled withdrawal from a Shawbrook savings pot. It was a bit buggy, with the future credit sometimes showing up twice (making it look like it was going to withdraw double the correct amount).

I’ve since switched to using the Monzo savings pot instead, and discovered the option for a scheduled withdrawal isn’t available. Is there a reason for this?

Two use cases for scheduled withdrawal from savings:
— Using monthly interest income as spending money
— Drawing on a saved emergency fund to supplement income

[Revels]

Schedule Payments from Savings Pots

I have read through some of the Savings Pots threads from when they were first launched, and it is my understanding that most of the additional pot features that regular pots have weren’t added to savings pots by choice, on the basis that the savings pot is designed to encourage saving rather than being used as a regular pot (and hence why the interest rate is not appleid to your main Monzo balance). However, both myself and my friends have encountered a few scenarios where this lack of functio…

@AlanDoe