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Just noticed a bug whereby the back button on the notification centre was displaying my balance rather than the word “back”.

Force quit app solved it.

Just as a general point I’d like to make.

Cmon guys, the amount of people on here that sound surprised that summary wasnt there on v1. It was literally in the opening post which stated,

In fairness to the team they quickly adapted here and eased alot of peoples qualms with this with an extremely quick implementation but there cant be any excuse to those of you that didnt think to read this and signed up anyway :see_no_evil:

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It would in retrospect.

But a documentation team could help with that moving forward. Technical communications specialists thrive on this stuff in an Agile team.

From the post that launched this, that you read before you signed up to the BETA.

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Ha, just made this exact point too! (great minds and all that?!)

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Strange you should say that. I was hoping that we might be able to document the changes to the app here:

Great idea. Who is ‘we’ though? Forum members?

That’s us!

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Need an easy way to find out what my total scheduled payments are for the month so I can transfer from my redundancy pot and not worry about missing anything.

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It looks like (admittedly after only 3 days) that £X of £500 budget LEFT (where the bar decreases) is the crowd favourite for the text on the summary widget with 90% of the votes so far.

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@ducang Thanks for the explanation on the Discretionary VS Mandatory spending, makes a lot of sense and explains why the graph has stopped working for many. @JordanFish wether “safe to spend” or “committed spending” etc, it is clear that what is valuable from the Summary and Pulse is the ability to learn from your spending and adjust accordingly. Transactional only banking is useless, what users want is to learn, predict and adapt. Looking forward to how you guys will do all of this

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Wow! Such a detailed and thoughtful post. I 100% agree. Hopefully the Monzo folks are listening and reflecting.

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It was the culmination of a lot of thinking about the problems that I have found with Monzo. They really just need an abstraction layer; to move the focus to a higher level than the pay-cycle. Consider the past and future as first-class entities; let people play with different future scenarios. We’ll see if it happens…

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That.

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I think you’ve expressed wonderfully what I was trying to get at. First over here then here.

The key to it all - which I hadn’t really recognised - does seem to be your distinction between mandatory and discretionary. And that they are different things to what’s currently “committed” in Summary. (Although that’s useful in a different, day-to-day, way).

I think a few have mentioned this in the thread but I can’t see any response about it above (point me to it if it’s there!)

iOS, iPhone XS.

My pots haven’t updated since yesterday morning. I can see that my scheduled payments went in, but when I view the pots area they aren’t showing the additional funds - in both the overview and the specific pot view. The payments weren’t triggered by IFTTT, though the pots are linked to an automation.

I’ve tried force-closing the app and reopening a few times, and I’ve restarted my phone.

I’ve been ok thus far, however I do actually need to use the money from those pots quite soon :roll_eyes: - would like to avoid ducking out of the beta if I can!

If anyone has any suggestions it would be muchly appreciated!

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Same with me. Mines locked so not so much of an issue but frustrating nonetheless.

It is a known bug atm that pots aren’t updating. The pots do have the money in, its just the pots don’t accurately show you what the current tally is.

The way around this I have found is to delete and re-install.

Not sure when it will be ‘fixed’ properly but that’s everything I know about it!

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That is some comfort and help all the same, thanks! :pray:

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No problem! I keep tabs on what is in them by looking at the total “deposits” and “withdrawals”.

A bit of mental maths is needed but those do update so that will give you an accurate idea of what is in the pots!

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