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How to split expenses with a group

Four ways to divide a cost, when each is the right one, and what to do about the penny that will not divide.

AnaTokyo, Marchyou owe 67.00
SamFlat 3Bowes you 24.50
MiaTokyo, Marchsettled

Evenly

The default, and right most of the time. Everyone in the split pays the same. Use it unless there is a reason not to — a rule nobody has to remember is worth more than a fairer one nobody applies consistently.

By shares

Whole units, for when the difference is countable: a couple in one room counts as two, the big bedroom counts as three of five. Easier to agree than percentages because nobody has to do arithmetic to check it.

By exact amounts

For a bill where the items are already known — one person had the lobster. Type what each person owes; the total has to match the bill, and you are told immediately if it does not.

By percentage

For standing arrangements — a 60/40 on the utilities. It has to come to 100%, and it will tell you what it currently comes to while you are still editing.

The penny that will not divide

£10 between three is not a number. Somebody gets 3.34 and the others get 3.33, and every app has to choose. Tabrillo shows you who took the extra penny on the receipt, so it is a fact rather than a discrepancy somebody finds later.

Where to see that

Settling up

Pay each other however you already do, then record it. Tabrillo can reduce a tangle of mutual debts to the fewest payments that clear it, or leave the pairs alone if you would rather settle directly with the person you owe.