to modify default notifications
I made a lot of my friends join SplitWise after billmonk died. Unfortunately, I've a bunch of those who need to be prodded to do stuff.
Long story short, the deal is that when someone joins SplitWise, the all but the notifications for "adding an expense" and "deleting an expense" are disabled. This results in me going individually to everyone's desk to enable it so that they can't say, "Pending bill?! I didn't get any notification that there was any!!"
You may argue that SplitWise sends out monthly balance update, but trust me, if you make a payment at the beginning of the month, you don't really want to wait till the end of month for people to know (let alone pay) ;-)
Anyhow, in my opinion, these notifications should be enabled by default. Just thought you should know :-)
PS: great, great job...btw! If you think I can do something to contribute (fix bugs, pitching in to fulfil feature requests), just holler!
We want to avoid having people feel like they are being spammed by the system, so the email on every expense add is turned off by default. You can send a balance reminder through us from the web or apps pretty easily and we’ve got a politely worded default email so doing that should be pretty easy.
On second thought, we might just add a “weekly activity” email if you have anything going on in your account, which might help in this case.
Marshall