Revolut isnāt at all a good comparison at all - itās not a full bank and Revolut runs the risk in many ways overwhelming users with features in my opinion. Iāve got accounts with a couple of legacy banks and Iāve had Revolut and Starling accounts - for me Monzo is by the far the best interface, and best in terms of ease of use.
I think some parts of Monzo Plus are quite cleverly done - Virtual cards are not something which the mass of users are aware of, or use at the moment. In my opinion this may nudge users to bring more spend over to Monzo, as especially for subscriptions it can be frustrating if a card expires and then thereās bounce back from various subscriptions, therefore users may bring transactions into Monzo from Credit Cards to help manage this, thus brining in more interchange revenue (Note: Iāve not yet used Revolutās VC feature).
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Virtual cards are great for when you want to separate card details between vendors; letās say you want to put all of your purchases via Amazon on one card to better track spending.
If your physical card gets stolen, since your virtual cards are separate, you wonāt have to update your payment details across all of the places you were using your existing card.
And theyāre great to sign up to those subscription trials that ask for a card in advance and forget to cancel. Generate card, sign up to trial, delete card.
Iām an investor in Monzo so have an interest in its success. The Monzo Plus product doesnāt seem attractive to me or value for money. It bundles a lot of features that competitors already offer for free.
However, from a pure business perspective itās probably a good play. Theyāll likely get a decent sign-up rate and can add another source of income in the journey to profitability.
Iām an elderly millennial that ditched the legacy banks and moved my current account over to Monzo - I donāt see them as a gimmick at all, simply a bank without any branches and with a great appā¦ as opposed to the legacy banks with fewer and fewer branches and generally appalling apps and the occasional total loss of service for customers including their debit cards etc
Iām quite tempted by this new product. I currently use Money Dashboard to view all my accounts in one place. Itās free (they mine your data) and I know other people use Emma - also free but with a Premium tier of about Ā£4.99 a month. Monzoās new service seems to replace both of these.
If Freetrade would show up as a Savings/Investment account within Monzo and there was a function to send your Roundups (ie. Spent Ā£0.88p with Monzo, the 22p gets pushed somewhere) to Freetrade instead of a pot then that would be incredible.
Monzo would have a new plus member if they had freetrade showing in the app and roundups that could go tk my freetrade account! Iād pay 10 quid for that let alone 5. The extra fiver would be covered by a change in my shopping habits that would incenticise me to spend less on crap things and roundups would keep me saving.
Saying yeah but I can get all of this for free elsewhere may be correct but you canāt get it within Monzo elsewhere ā¦ And even then is it really the same selection of features in the same way? Just ticking off feature by feature is really a good indicator of the value of the product - some legacies banks do most of what Monzo does for free yet their UI are not as good and they spend a lot of screen space trying to up sell you loans and mortgages which often then take you to a webpage (not a good user experience)
I also use Money Dashboard. Monzo allows you to split transactions by categories which MoneyDB doesnāt do; for example, in Monzo+ you can tag a Sainsburyās spend with Ā£40 on groceries and Ā£20 on Entertainment (alcohol). Unfortunately, there is not yet any Amex integration (although coming soon) and I prefer to budget on my PC so itās not ideal.
I purchased Monzo+ knowing that there isnāt enough value for the current price but I am a big fan. rartherās post above rings true, I know Monzo are having monetary problems and I will happily support them because I am brainwashed
I like the product and have signed up. Iāve already set up custom categories (Investments, pets etc), set up a virtual card, can see my Santander and RBS accounts, and my new card will be arriving in the next couple of days. My wife and I can take out Ā£800 between us on holiday later this month and I leave enough money in the account that Iāll accrue Ā£20 in interest in the next year. Absolutely happy to pay Ā£5 a month for all this.
So, in spite of my earlier comments. Iāve ended up signing up now myself. Why? No idea really. I guess I was intrigued and for Ā£5 a month its cheap enough to try it out and see if it does benefit me. I like the idea of the Google sheets interaction having seen some examples of what can be done with it so Iāll be looking at doing that.
I wouldnāt pay any more than Ā£5 though and may still cancel after the 3 months.
Itās amazing what a competent CEO can do in such a short amount of time! I feel like the termination of Tom from the board and him āstepping downā after the down round couldnāt have come sooner.
TS Anil seems to be really whipping Monzo back into shape and leading the company properly. I donāt think Monzo Plus is great this time around either, but at least thereās some buzz about it. Great job by TS! I hope he brings Monzo back from what looked like an imminent collapse.
Unless you have insider knowledge, I think itās perhaps a bit too soon to be giving all the credit for the new Plus to TS Anil and none to Tom, or any of the other senior staff members involved.
We donāt have a Freetrade IFTTT integration but I think you could triggera bank transfer through the Monzo integration which would then be deposited as normal on our end. Iām assuming the Monzo integration supports sending a bank transfer here.
ā¦ And even then is it really the same selection of features in the same way? Just ticking off feature by feature is really a good indicator of the value of the product - some legacies banks do most of what Monzo does for free yet their UI are not as good and they spend a lot of screen space trying to up sell you loans and mortgages which often then take you to a webpage (not a good user experience)
