Add expenses via email
It would be killer to be able to email a set email address (ie, bills@splitwise) with a bill name and attachment and have it automatically added as an expense and add the attachment.
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Updating since it’s been a while. We still really like this idea, unfortunately, there’s not a lot of momentum around it. We also haven’t figured out the best way to implement it yet. We’ll leave it open for now for further voting and comments.
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Marnie
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Agreed, I do a lot of online shopping and get my receipts via email. It would be nice to be able to add the expense by just forwarding the email.
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Ron Casey
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Suggestion is a custom @splitwise.com email address for an expense group. When a bill, say an electric bill or internet bill, is forwarded to the address, Splitwise parses out the amount and date and automatically adds it as a split group expense. Perhaps add the email as an attachment so everyone can verify.
I would subscribe to Pro for that, as it would totally automate my monthly use of Splitwise.
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ally mammen
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With the pandemic, I buy most things online these days - I never have physical receipts! The receipts in the emails are too long to screenshot on mobile, so it’s hard to keep a record of exactly what I need to pay for and what my partner needs to pay for.
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Aseem Kishore
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Would love this too! I bought a bunch of things on Amazon, Apple.com, and Doordash just now and would love to just forward those receipt emails to have them auto-added to Splitwise.
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Brandon Hawkins
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Check email for bills or connect external accounts. Offer to import bills (eg monthly electric) even if their amounts change slightly
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mwisnicki
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Some stores and payment providers (e.g. Square) can send itemized email receipt. It would be great if I could import it (itemized).
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Amy
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This is my number one favorite idea. It would really help me keep up with reconciling the household bills. I always get behind
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Blake Harris
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It would be great if I could forward receipts/bills/etc. to an email address and Splitwise would automatically process these receipts by extracting the cost and the vendor, then split 50/50, or add to an "Inbox" for me to process when I login next.
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Ryan Hinshelwood commented
For me, if I were able to send an email to "mygroupname.myusername@splitwise.com" with the subject "Utility Bill $150" and have it automatically split $150 between the users of mygroupname, that would solve a lot of problems for me. Then I could use Zapier or IFTTT to set up automation for all household bills
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Alessio
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You can implement an MVP of the idea really easily: setup a mailbox, make a PDF of the email received, and add/attach it to an "Unknown/Email" expense in the account of who sent it. You can use the date/time of the email to know where to add it.
The user will then be able to go and fix all the fields.
I can imagine people adding filtering rules to their Inbox so that bills are automatically sent your way, and then go fix them up in the app. Would be super useful!