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FEATURE REQUEST for accounts -- "Pockets" -- A sub...

by JohnScrip Contributor in My Feedback for PayPal (Archive)
‎Oct-24-2015 09:47 PM
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A "pocket" would be a sub-account that you could show as part of available balance or not.     Say you're saving up to purchase a particular piece of gear -- Make a pocket for it.  Add money to it occasionally (or be able to set up an automatic monthly transfer to that pocket and assign a notification when a specified amount is reached - Time to make that purchase).     Holiday savings -- You could do the same thing.  Assign a monthly transfer of a particular amount (of move manually) and have a "pocket" for holiday shopping.     Taxes -- Some of us pay quarterly.  Putting that money aside so it's there on those ever-important dates would be a life-saver.  Make a "Tax" pocket.     OR FLIP THE WHOLE THING AROUND -- and only show the balance of your "pocket" that you use for "pocket money" --    Of course, you'd still need to have an available total somewhere...  But when you make different pockets, you can assign whether those pockets are reflected in --- your "app" total for instance.  Kind of an "available balance / ledger balance" thing.     HTML codes for putting payments in pockets -- Sell merchandise?  One pocket.  Downloads?  Another pocket.  Donations?  Another pocket.  Auctions?  How awesome would THAT be at the end of the year...?   Assign a default pocket to different e-mail addresses for the same purpose.     And again - Be able to "hide" those balances or show them as part of the main balance.     Where did this come from?  I was just put on a waiting list for a particular piece.  I have the money now.  I even offered to pay the manufacturer in advance.  Long story short, the money is available now - and I want it to be available when the merchandise is available for shipping.  But I run "fast and loose" with my PayPal account.  Every decision I make is based on the availble balance.  And I could easily see (January?  February?) coming around and I forget about that expense and it's then a shock to the system.  So today, I created a new PayPal account strictly for this one purchase -- Which seems sort of goofy.     I was thinking to myself that I wish I just had a pocket to keep it in.  And that's why I'm typing this now.     So HOW do I get this idea to the folks that matter?   ... View more
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