I’ve actually been doing this with Starling as at the time (December 2017), you could move money from the account to a pot via the API. I then store values that I have used in a DB to keep track of what I have done. I batch payments for a week so that I don’t have too many smaller payments taking space in my personal accounting! It’s been fun to see so far!
I started the challenge as well. Automatic savings like that would take some work to implement (some kind of rules engine) but it would be nice to have!
Hi guys is it not possible to make a pot that could be used to do the 365 money saving Challenge or similar?
Or how about Monzos 365 Day saving Challenge and if you can do it without dipping into the saving Challenge pot untill the last day Monzo will reward you with… well that’s up to you guys & girls.
The automated movement of funds into a pot / “Coin Jar” feature was only shipped a couple of weeks ago as a minimum viable product - so i’m sure it still has a lot further to go with the iterations that will surely be on the way.
I’ve seen this question answered by Monzo on Twitter (I think) with their response being that the suggestion will be passed on to the development team - so perhaps it is already on the way!
In the meantime why not join the other Monzonauts on the 1p challenge thread where they are doing this challenge manually: Idea for your pot (1p saving challenge)
I like this, doing it backwards makes so much sense as people like things that get easier… so if monzo introduced the 1p / £1 challenge as an auto function id like to see an option to do it in reverse mode.