Welcome to the community Yannis
Yes itās hot coral
When you use your card to make a purchase, Monzo picks up the merchantās MCC code, MasterCardās are listed here.
So when you buy a drink at your local pub, the MCC code is probably 5813, Monzo knows that you were at somewhere categorised as āBars, Cocktail Lounges, Discotheques, Nightclubs, and Tavernsā
Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)ā & I expect this is what they use when they allocate the transaction to the āEntertainmentā Category (& add the emoji to your notification
). Every merchant has an MCC code which is pretty handy for Monzo!
This sounds like a cool idea Thereās a couple of ways that you can do this nowā¦
If youāre an iOS user (coming to Android ) , you can search for last monthās transactions & then export them to a spreadsheet to send home.
If youāre using Targets in the iOS app (& here in the roadmap for Android), youāll also get a summary of your spending at the end of the month, which shows you your breakdown of spend by category. But users can change the categories that are assigned to their transactions so if you want to be really transparent, Iād go for the former option
Neither option seems like the perfect way to share your transaction history, in terms of including all the data & presenting it nicely though so perhaps Monzo will come up with a better way for you to do this in the futureā¦