Trends - a big update to the Monzo experience

[davidwalton (Award Winning Hot Coral Analyst)]

Egg dropped.

Best. Day. Ever.

Or it will be when I can test it to find feature parity.

[avb (Adam Brocklehurst)]

@MattGo

Any news on categorising payments between pots? Currently I have to pay off my Amex from a separate account, and send payments to that account from Monzo to categorise them.

Part of the Trends tab rollout allows you to categorise pot transfers, so I hope this solves your problem!

[MattGo]

Yes!!

Finally!

[RichardL (Rich)]

@benstrak

We’re releasing Trends to a select few Monzo Plus and Monzo Premium customers today to get feedback and develop it properly.

Is there any particular reason why you’ve opted for this sort of rollout instead of either Labs or the iOS and Android beta channels?

This seems to have happened with quite a few new things Monzo have launched recently.

The feature does sound interesting though. Summary has been dead to me since I started pumping my spending via AMEX, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ve built!

[richycran (Rich)]

Very excited by this albeit I fear days of my life will now be lost reclassifying transactions between my linked bank accounts and credit cards as transfers rather than payments

[benstrak]

@richycran

days of my life will now be lost reclassifying transactions between my linked bank accounts and credit cards as transfers rather than payments

Hopefully our defaults will have done a lot of this for you

[benstrak]

@RichardL

Is there any particular reason why you’ve opted for this sort of rollout instead of either Labs or the iOS and Android beta channels?

It’s a big change so we’re being extra cautious this time round

[Revels]

If I’m one of the chosen ones, will I get any sort of notification?

Not that I’ve opened and forced closed the app 17 times since this topic went live. Oh no. That would be silly.

[BristolMatt (Matt C)]

Any idea if bill splits for connected cards are on the roadmap? (Sorry, I know we always want moooooore but when you release exciting new features it means there are more possibilities of things that can be done!)

[avb (Adam Brocklehurst)]

@Revels

If I’m one of the chosen ones, will I get any sort of notification?

Afraid not, you’ll just get a (hopefully) pleasant surprise when you open the app

[tjvr (Tim)]

@davidwalton

I’m going to drop an egg if they are.

I have never heard this expression before, and now I really want to see this happen.

[tjvr (Tim)]

In addition to those Plus & Premium subscribers getting it through today’s rollout, an even smaller fraction will see a toggle appear in Labs to enable it.

(But it’s a fraction of a fraction, so don’t go frantically refreshing Labs… )

[Rat_au_van (Em)]

@tjvr

But it’s a fraction of a fraction, so don’t go frantically refreshing Labs…

Too late

[sonos (Piers Spencer)]

Nice to see new features.

[phineas]

@tjvr

so don’t go frantically refreshing Labs…

Goes and frantically refreshes Labs…

[Rob3 (Rob)]

Starts refreshing 100 times

[DaveJ (Dave)]

Meh, that’s a no from me, not something I’d ever use. At least the speculation has come to an end

[l33t]

I have the power… oooh trends time for a play

[l33t]

Initially I love it, it does what it says on the tin and makes it much easier to spot those dreaded “General” category transactions and retag them.
I am just going through a few months seeing how trends aligns with my own perceived view of my spending for that month.
I have both Emma and Moneyhub and it will be interesting to see how trends lines up with my usage day to day as I do tend to check both those every so often rather than using them to track week to week.

[Peter_G]

I can confirm what many of you have long suspected: I am not a Chosen One.

Sadness.