Apply payment directly to expense/pay for individual items
When a payment is made, you should be able to select the associated expense(s) & enter a $ amount to which expense the payment should be applied to.
An update: we’re still not planning to add the concept of a payment for a specific bill or a specific expense. We’ve left this idea under review for many years, but we’re not convinced it’s the right idea for Splitwise. We think focusing on a total balance makes things simpler in most cases. This is also how a bank balance works.
Here’s two potential work-arounds if you’re not satisfied:
1. Let’s say you want to set things up so you can see if people have specifically paid for a certain bill, or for a certain month of expenses. You can create a group just for that bill or month – then, when viewing that group, you will only see balances owed from that specific bill or set of bills.
2. Once you pay an amount and want to keep track of it being for a certain bill, you could use a comment on the payment and the expense. This would allow you to note down your intentions.
Also, since this request was added, we’ve added the following feature: if you ever /fully/ settle up with a friend or group, we automatically hide all bills before that time behind a tap or click to make things cleaner. This way, you generally can see only which bills specifically are affecting the group or friendship balance. (If things have been only partially settled, we leave everything visible.)
If you’d like to share more about why this feature is important to you, or why these workarounds are not sufficient, we always appreciate specific feedback so we can understand how it could help you specifically. For this reason, we’ll leave the request “under review”
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Anonymous commented
You have a great product that's pretty easy to use. I'd just suggest adding a feature that allows you to pay Splitwise the total amount you owe to the entire group (and Splitwise then divides it automatically) rather than having to personally enter multiple transactions. Seems like a relatively easy fix that would make the payment process much more efficient.
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Sagar shah commented
Hey, actually i have IOS 8 and I upgraded my split wise application. But due to your bug I can't open this app. Please give me some solution ASAP
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Anonymous commented
Let users grey out a payment, but still leave it visible. If something was settled up offline, how do you do that per payment instead of including in the large settle up total.
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shekhil commented
Hi,
In India, Why not tie up with Paytm and make the payment easier. Similar to Uber cab service which has tie up with Paytm for payment in India. This would ease the transfer atleast for certain expense brackets. It would be great if all major banks as well as wallet options are provided. The assumption for bank accounts would be the user has added the details of the partners account details. For paytm only mobile number is required to transfer the amount.
-Shekhil
-Shekhil
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Abhinav commented
On payment, please show the popup containing the items checklist for which payment is made.These checked items will be included in comments automatically.Hence, user lame users like us don't need to manually type the item name.
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Bianca Tamayo commented
Absolutely!!!
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Bianca Tamayo commented
Example use: When there's a big expense, I would like to be able to pay it off, and have it display as "Paid", but not necessarily have to pay off the rest of the bill. This way I can record big expenses with the tally, but be able to mark it as paid and see a more realistic total between the group/friend.
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Anonymous commented
Splitwise REALLY needs this functionality. Why not list under each payment when you click on it what each person owes (even or uneven splits like it currently does) but just have a button next to your name which says settle this bill... it could be next to all the names for the person who paid the bill in the first place so they can register who paid what.
Not sure how to implement that in code but doesn't seem to logically complex to me!
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Anonymous commented
If a bill is to be divided among 4 people, and next day one of payee makes his payment towards the same bill. There should be an option to settle individual bill. This will make handling at User level very better
Thanks!
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Anonymous commented
I LOVE the concept and look! Sadly, without the ability to apply payment directly towards a bill is the reason I had to find another option.
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Abhinav Singi commented
Paytm would be great
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Tyler Verbais commented
It would be nice if you could just click on a member's name in a given expense breakdown and have the option to have them settle up for that expense and just that expense right in that tab, without having to go to the main settle up tab and input the dollar amount manually.
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Kelly C. commented
So my partner and I share everything through your site. Often, one of us will put in a long list of bills, and the other one can only pay back a few at a time. I would like to be able to track which one's I've paid for--for example, if i pay the amount owed for the rent bill but still owe money for the electric bill, perhaps rent can show "paid" next to it, or turn a different color, or something? Just so I can keep track of which items have been paid for, not just the amount I still owe. Thanks, and I love split wise!
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Anonymous commented
Hi, I think it would be great if we could link payment/settlement to a particular bill. Since there are some bills that come at a later date but will be settled earlier. That way there won't be so many unsettled bills listed.
So let's say my group have bill A, then afterwards there's also bill B. But for some reason we decided to settle bill B first. If we could link the settlement to the payment (perhaps through tagging), then bill B could be removed from the list of unsettled bills. I hope my idea is clear enough.
Cheers! Keep up the good work! I really love Splitwise : )
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Anonymous commented
Hi Jon,
First, thank you and your team for Splitwise. I still use it and it is great. I'm glad you have responded to the issues that everyone here has posted about and made the update you made a couple of years ago. I'm sorry to say that I think this is still a big issue, because this is something that should have always been and should be at the foundation of the software. I really don't think the system needs to be a "checklist" per say, but I think at the root, the user should HAVE TO "marry" a payment directly to an expense and only at that point should an expense be deemed "closed".
If there is more than 1 expense open, there should be a way to apply defined $ amounts to each expense owed. If any payment is made that is greater than all expenses, a pop-up box should ask if the user wants to lend money to his friend in the amount of the residual... Or it should force the user to have to enter another expense. If the amount paid is less than the expense that is being paid for, that item should remain an "open expense" and there should be something that says "username paid $125 toward this item, amount owed is $132."
Because this deals with money, there should not be any money "floating around." Every dollar should be accounted for first on an item by item level, and then THE ITEMS should add up on a rolling level.
If there are things that you are trying to do that make this difficult, I would say that this is probably more important than most of the bells and whistles out there.
Thank you for your hard work here! I do like this software a lot and I realize that this would probably be very hard to implement, but if you did I think it would make a lot of users very happy.
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Pete commented
Was talking with mates about this aspect missing from the app this evening...!!!
Any progress?
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Anonymous commented
Any progress on this feature?
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Barret commented
This would help out greatly
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ricky commented
Please make this happen, people keep on deleting bills in our group thinking that's how to settle specific bills and it's messing up our accounting.