Include group balances when viewing a friendship (to see the total balance with an individual)

Could you make it so that group balances and individual friend balances are included together, rather than as two separate things?

I have friends on Splitwise who are both (a) in groups with me and (b) in my friends list. Some of our transactions happen inside the group, and others happen in our one-on-one friendships.

Unfortunately, my balance with Person X in the group is treated separately from my balance with the same Person X in my friends list, which makes it very confusing to figure out who owes who.

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Rushi shared this idea · Aug 7, 2012 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Nov 6, 2013

This has now been completed on all platforms: web, iPhone, and Android.

Friendships include group balances in the list of expenses, so when you click on a friend’s name, you will see all transactions with that person.

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Apr 22, 2013

This has now been completed on web and iPhone! Android hang tight; you are coming up as soon as we can muster.

Friendships include group balances in the list of expenses, so when you click on a friend’s name, you will see all transactions with that person.

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Jan 7, 2013

On the web, this is now completed – friendships include group balances in the list of expenses, so when you click on a friend’s name, you will see all transactions with that person.

This will be coming to our mobile apps in an update in the near future – hang tight!

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Dec 22, 2012

We are about to post an even easier version of this for the website in the next two days or so! Preview on our blog post at http://blog.splitwise.com/2012/12/20/previewfeedback-splitwise-v2-5-web/. We’d love some feedback before we push it live.

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Sep 6, 2012

This is now live on the web! It will also be coming to our mobile apps in a future update.

To see the grand total of all your expenses with an individual (including both group debts and one-on-one debts), just go to their friend page – at the top you’ll automatically see what the total amount is. By clicking “Show details”, you can see how much that person owes you for each of the specific groups they are involved in.

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Sep 6, 2012

This is now live on the web! It will also be coming to the mobile in a future update.

To get the grand total of your friends expenses along with any groups they are involved in do the following. Go to the friend page and at the top you’ll automatically see what the total amount is. By clicking on the details, you’ll see who owes what in the specific groups they are involved in.

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Sep 1, 2012

We’re working on this! We agree that the division between group balances and individual balances is very confusing, and we’re working on updates to make it better – hopefully for later this month!

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AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded · Aug 8, 2012

We do plan to make it easier to manage balances between friends and in groups more seamlessly. We’re worried about privacy in any of these features, but this is on our roadmap.

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Lobo commented · August 22, 2012 10:39 AM · Report

yeah, It is not very friendly when it comes to viewing the dashboard. it forces me to visit the individual groups to see the amounts. It would be really nice if no groups information is shown on dashboard(or shown hidden on start up) and only amounts between each person is shown. This is keeping some of my friend's from moving to Splitwise.

BillMonk is stupid simple and that it is an awesome thing.

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Maria kazandjieva commented · August 21, 2012 8:26 PM · Report

What would the privacy implications be? I can already see the amounts, they are just split into two different pages. It'd be an awesome feature especially for those of us who escaped billmonk :)

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Brandon Heller commented · August 21, 2012 7:03 PM · Report

Same problem as Julie here, would be nice to fix.

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Julie commented · August 20, 2012 6:43 PM · Report

Agreed. By importing from BillMonk, my housemates' amounts are individual friendships; however, we want to post bills in the house group since it's easier, but if I add a bill to the group, it doesn't seem to add it to our individual friendships, making two separate amounts.. kind of annoying..

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Zameel commented · August 16, 2012 4:58 PM · Report

Why would Privacy be an issue, only the cost for each person for the particular bill need to be displayed for all.
the outstanding balance will displayed on the dashboard its private !

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Sushant commented · July 31, 2012 4:12 PM · Report

I totally agree with this idea. Without this feature, we have to manually add the individual bills and figure out the total amount that needs to paid to each person in the group. This could be very painful if number of persons in a group is quite large. Not having this feature could be a deal breaker for our group.

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