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Auto-genereated "Settle up balances" transation should be "Payment" not "General"

When I settle up balances with a friend, the corresponding transactions get added in the groups where me and respective friend is part of. This auto-generated entry is marked with category "General" . Instead of that it should be marked as "Payment". So, it would help in tracking my expenses with category.

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Chetan Mhetre shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
under review  ·  AdminSplitwise Support (-, Splitwise) responded  · 

Sorry for the trouble! We’d definitely like to improve the way “Settle all balances” works – I’ll pass on this suggestion and see if it’s something we can fix when we work on improving our settling up stuff.

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  • Akshay Vijaykumar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Make 'Settle your balances' a separate category. This would help visualize expenses better. Additionally, display the total expense column in the 'Charts' feature available for premium users. When I try to view my total expense in a group, I'd usually like to see a total for only my share of expenses.

  • Ram Das Diwakaran commented  ·   ·  Report

    Situation:
    Supposing there are two people - person1 & person2, and they are part of two groups say group1 & group2. Person1 owes person2 a finite amount of money in each of the groups. There's a problem in settling up.

    Case 1:
    Person1 goes into individual groups and settles up. In this case, in each group, an entry is made saying "Person2 _received_ $xx from person1." Here, it means this is recorded as a payment against an already existing amount owed. This is fine.

    Case 2:
    Person1 does "settle all balances" with person2, from the overview of the app. In this case, it creates an entry in each group which reads "Person2 _owes_ $xx to person1." The difference in this case is that, this transaction is added as an *extra expense*. Even though the balances settle up, the group totals and the "your share" part goes up by $xx, in the group. This doesn't happen is case #1.

    I think the final behavior in case#2 should also be similar to case#1. Looks like a bug? Please check.

  • Anirudha Kumar commented  ·   ·  Report

    Including these double counts and also messes up with the distribution.

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