User Creation of Categories

[Eweeks (Evie)]

I think we should be able to make our own categories for spending

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

I don’t think that’s likely for these reasons

https://community.monzo.com/t/custom-categories-multi-category-transactions/649/14?u=alexs

but an update to categories is coming (ish), Hugo mentioned yesterday that

@hugo

Thanks a lot for helping us! I hope we’ll be revisiting the category model in a few months time

in the meantime, I’d recommend tagging your transactions with Emoji, I’ve explained how I use them here

Grouping spending

I could be wrong but I’m guessing that this challenge will be resolved if Mondo can id the transaction as a PayPal transaction and in which case, the transaction will be tagged / grouped automatically. The product team has a preference for avoiding manual user entry wherever possible. There’s also a similar issue with Uber & Stripe transactions not being grouped correctly because additional characters are being added to the transaction labels. In the meantime, my suggestion would be to tag the…

which enables you to count the number of transactions of a particular type, although getting to totals / average spend is still a challenge.

[RumeeAhmed]

I think it needs more e.g. health or lifestyle and especially the ability to break down cash transactions into correct categories.