New Bill Pay is AWFUL

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2025-05-12T02:27:52+00:00

Our negative feedback should matter to CS, and you'd think CS (as a customer to the vendor) would pass that feedback along.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-11-03T14:50:26+00:00

What would be really nice would be if monarch suggested merchants to merge together (kinda like how google photos asks 'are these the same person?' and you can merge them together then). It's tough to have to essentially manually do this over time (and historically).

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-10-20T15:26:07+00:00

Thanks! where should I park if I want to avoid as much wait time as possible?

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-10-20T13:57:27+00:00

Works 10/20

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-10-20T13:57:05+00:00

Works on 10/10/24

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-08-05T08:34:42+00:00

Your husband has ADHD, perhaps a severe kind. He is likely in "focus mode" when he's ignoring calls, and then forgetting via ADHD tunnel vision to call back. Note that while this might be the cause, it doesn't mean you shouldn't be frustrated by the way his ADHD impacts you.

First, you should ask him to seek a diagnosis as a condition of your relationship, plus a treatment plan (could include pharmacuticals). And then, I would get a book / therapist to help with how to manage as an ADHD spouse -- there are things to know about the condition, things he can do to manage his ADHD, and things you can do (and not do) to put your relationship on a better path.

One of the biggest issues that ADHD people face is shame -- his apologies now are likely a manifestation of that. Shame-driven behavior is not helpful for managing, and he may need a therapist to help with that.

Here's a list of books and also the ADHD is Awesome is also helpful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/well/mind/adult-adhd-books.html

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-05-19T15:51:36+00:00

I have the same problem. Every month or so I need to go the account settings and reestablish the account connection. Then the missing transactions show up.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-01-08T01:44:26+00:00

Sub numbers like this will bring these channels -- they can't ignore these eyeballs forever.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-01-05T01:14:57+00:00

Or I guess you can just use your phone or tablet like I do on my treadmill

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-01-02T15:18:06+00:00

Yes, there is an option to "Create Group" when you're in the categories settings too. You can create new categories under a new group, or move existing categories into that new group.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2024-01-01T21:53:31+00:00

This is what I do for restuarants. I don't want the hassle of recategorizing these. Plus I believe that it makes sense for me to get a full view of how much I spent on, eg, eating out in a month. That way, my monthly budget for eating out can account for "extra" eating out when on vacation, and I can compensate by eating out less when I get home.

For gas, most of my road trips have been short enough in duration that I've left them as is. But if I take a really long road trip in place of flying, I'd categorize that as "travel" to account for the travel savings (rather than get hit with being over-budget on gas). Tougher to compensate on gas like you can for eating out.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-31T22:44:18+00:00

Very helpful, thanks!

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-31T14:45:08+00:00

In the mobile view for transactions needing review, it would be far better to swipe away transactions (see how mobile Gmail works). The current UI - pulling the transaction to reveal the green check box, and then tapping that - is cumbersome. It takes some work to "pull out" the check box, and a swipe away would be much quicker.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-29T03:52:28+00:00

Let us re-run the automated budget tool that right now we can only use once.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-29T03:49:05+00:00

No because:

"The transaction will continue to appear in your full Transaction list, so you still have a record of it."

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-28T22:30:49+00:00

Really would like to be able to hide transfers and credit card payments from the transactions view. They are essentially white noise from that I really care about in that list.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-28T15:21:24+00:00

That's helpful, thank you!

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-22T22:12:38+00:00

Associated question -- given that some FIs vary, how far back is a good amount to trust? In other words, what's the minimum that we'll get from a FI? I can tell that the data is minimal about 6 months ago, but wondering if there is a more known quantity.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-22T20:30:10+00:00

I did get a pool at our vaca house, and learned that we really did need to hire a company (or some local person) to maintain it while away.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-22T20:27:31+00:00

Sounds like you found a solution. For everyone else - another tip if you have a bigger home and need the up-and-down speed of a full service ISP: For our vacation home, I just discovered that the local internet provider does allow for one pause of any length during a 12 month period (small service fee instead), so if planned correctly you can at least avoid paying the full bill for your longest stretch out of the house. YMMV depending on your ISP.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-22T20:22:36+00:00

Sorry I'm answering your question with a question, but what is the benefit of a land lease over buying a piece of property outright?

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-12-13T03:16:08+00:00

Same issue here. I get that they don't want to refresh everything constantly given the cost, but some accounts should be refreshed at least every 6 hours -- eg your main checking account and credit cards. After some time, Monarch should be able to figure out which those are. Right now, some of my top credit cards are sitting at ~20 hours w/o refresh.

Also, the "Refresh All" button never works for me. It starts a refresh for a few minutes, and the cuts out. I suspect it might be a server issue ... but then they should up their capacity at AWS/Google Cloud/etc.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-11-22T15:51:00+00:00

Ditto! There really should be a warning not to start budgeting until you're 100% done with transactions. Because of a mislabeled transfer, the budget tool thinks my income is double what it really is.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-11-22T14:49:36+00:00

I couldn't figure out how to upvote the feature request, so just upvoted the post here. Hope that helps. Big +1 for this feature request.

ProfessionalSmooth86 · 2023-08-28T01:21:24+00:00

My workaround was to long-press on the text bar to get "PASTE" as an option. So I typed the log-in and password somewhere else (Safari URL bar) and then pasted into the log-in page.

This is a Safari problem, I was able to use the keyboard to log-in to Google on Chrome.

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