Notes on pending transactions... again!

[FletchtheSnooper]

I know we are instructed that…

“Pending transactions might not show the correct description until they’ve been confirmed by your bank.”

But would it be possible to allow us to add notes to pending transactions so we can be reminded of what they were ahead of time?

I know this has been suggested before so i guess im prompting for an update on this feature request.

[paul_k]

Hi @FletchtheSnooper - I explain in the post below why this isn’t possible for us to implement this reliably with how Open Banking works right now.

Categorise pending transactions - feature request

Hi @gabor.biro - the reason we don’t support this today is that sadly pending transactions work differently across banks and there is no relationship between a pending transaction and a confirmed (aka ‘Booked’) transaction a few days later. Some card companies don’t give us pending transactions at all, some give us transactions that often change in amount, description and date. Most banks don’t provide any sort of reliable reference ID that links transaction records as they move from pending t…

Paul