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Building Saver Icons
New in our most recent release is the ability to choose a custom emoji icon for your savers. Learn some of the technical challenges surmounted while building it.
2 min read
Xavier Shay
Up 1.4.3 Release Notes
Emoji saver icons, change your mobile number, grouped transactions, and card controls.
1 min read
Up
The Tree of Up
We're excited to introduce a new kind of product roadmap. We're calling it The Tree of Up – a technology tree-like view of our product plans for 2019.
2 min read
Anson Parker
The Round Ups Round-up
Having now made over 250,000 round ups we take a nerdy dive into the data we've seen, including the most common cents amounts on purchases and our plans for the future.
3 min read
Anson Parker
Who are our Upsiders?
With Up flying past 30,000 customers within a few months of launch, we thought we'd introduce a few faces who are enjoying life on the Upside.
3 min read
Up
Afterpaying with Up
Spending wisely requires being more connected to your past purchases than many of us are today. It also requires a better understanding of your future spending commitments. Armed with knowledge of the past and future you are able to make better informed — wiser — spending decisions.
2 min read
Anson Parker
Designing a Super Powered Welcome Experience
For a branchless digital bank, the tangible moments you have with your customers are few and far between. We relished the opportunity to design both our debit card and its welcome pack from scratch.
8 min read
Daniel Wearne
Top 10 highlights from 2018
Happy New Year! While 2019 has just begun and there are so many awesome things planned for Up this year, I just thought it’d be cool to look back at a few highlights from 2018.
16 min read
Dom Pym
Continuous delivery at Up
Deploying change to production is the heartbeat of any modern tech company. Not so much for most banks, where sometimes it is only done a few times per year. At Up we do it several times per day!
5 min read
Chris Aitchison
Paying Someone
The area of payments presents one of the bigger opportunities for innovation and improvement in banking, but also exerts the greatest challenge on us to remain truly forward-looking and uncompromising while maintaining compatibility with industry standards.
3 min read
Anson Parker