We’re tweaking how locked pots work

[Chapuys (Kevyn)]

These are my three posts from the other thread. They pretty much sums up my opinion.

On being able to unlock your own pot within the app:

@Chapuys

I have to agree with @Rat_au_van, it makes locking pots pointless if you can easily unlock them.

Based on the figures given by @BethS stating 20% of locked pots are unlocked by COps and 6.5% of COps time is taken up from unlocking pots:

@Chapuys

You could turn that 20% on its head and say they are very successful because 80% of locked pots stay locked, helping people to save and not impulse spend. 93.5% of queries last week were not even related to unlocking pots.

Based on @Dannytc stating he wanted a location based lock/unlock to create a little friction:

@Chapuys

Having to go to a specific location to unlock a pot reminds me when I opened a ISA in a passbook account in a Welsh only building society 50-odd miles away to help me save