As of today, you won’t be able to create a new Savings Pot - but we’re working to make them available again soon!
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Ooops 
hopefully won’t be long until new accounts are available!
Maybe with some better rates too 
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I’d be happy with seeing my Marcus balance in app 
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Roll on the marketplace!
It’s great that it’s been so popular, pausing isn’t good though. Hopefully it shows how popular a choice of providers is and how it needs to progress.
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Surely has to be expedited now?
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This is… unexpected.
Surely Monzo could foresee this happening pretty quickly?
Hopefully the next integration is much more seamless than the Investec one (in terms of withdrawing money!)
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It makes me wonder how a bank handles this sort of situation with their own saving products. Do they just quietly withdraw them for a while or does this never happen?
I don’t think seamless ness is an issue, just unpopularity of the terms in some quarters.
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What was the limit that you agreed with investec?
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This is disappointing and if I’m honest, unacceptable.
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Awesome to see how popular this option was tbh! 
Hitting the (likely many million pound) limit is impressive, if a little bit unfortunate 
Hopefully we’re not too far away from a renegotiated limit with Investec 
Like @michaelw90, I’m super curious to learn how high (or low!) this limit is 
Really glad that this doesn’t affect existing users 
This situation has been handled well, it’s clear from the blog & within the app what’s going on 
I’m sure it won’t be long before Savings Pots are back up and open for business 
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If the choice is close to new customers or drop the rate to reduce demand, which would be preferred?
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Pure speculation, and I imagine I am well off here… But…
The rate Monzo were paying (1%) added to their profit margin (0.15%) corresponded with Investecs savings account which allowed a maximum of £250,000.
Interestingly, that savings account is no longer available from Investec, and they now pay a rate of 1.4% with a lower entry (£10,000 rather than £25,000) and a higher top end of £1,000,000 (rather than £250,000).
Again, I could be well off with this, and I would have thought Monzo had negotiated special terms with Investec which would change the above stipulations.
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None. It’s Monzos mistake so they should take the hit not the customer.
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But the weird thing is, that they’ve said that those have accounts are still able to add savings…
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That’s true for new Savings Pots but if you signed up with v1.0 (and under the original T’s&C’s) I believe Monzo allowed users to keep their >£250k Savings Pot(s)…
I don’t have a source, I believe that was lost in the old Slack 
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No, it’s no one’s “mistake”. It’s a first attempt at something proving more popular than expected.
I never understand the need to find someone to blame for everything as if offence has been caused 
(Society complaint, not Monzo community complaint!)
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It is frustrating that yet again, Monzo have had a severe lack of foresight and haven’t seen the writing on the wall ahead of time. The CS debacle all over again?
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Perhaps they are close to the limit, and giving themselves some breathing room? They have said that it’s not a guarantee it’ll be like this for ever (notice the end of the sentence…)
If you already have a Savings Pot, then don’t worry – for now, nothing changes. You can keep adding and withdrawing money, and you’ll still earn interest on your savings. We’ll let you know if that’s likely to change.
I personally doubt there is much in the savings pots (why would there be when there are quite a lot of better options)?
If they were close to the £250,000 limit, they may be taking precautions now before it’s too late.
Again, purely speculation 
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All it takes is 250 users to have opened them… Out of 1 million??
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