Expense Sharer - Simple online tool to calculate shared expenses

Expense sharer is an online tool to share expenses with roommates, friends, family members and can be used for any occasions including trips, vacations, room rental etc. What differentiates this tool from other online tools is that - there is NO SIGNUP , NO LOGIN, NO PASSWORDS, NO HASSLE, NO DOWNLOADS, NO SAVING DATA ON SERVERS. The data is purely yours and you can export your data locally or share via Google docs and later import it back and continue on from where you left.

What makes this tool unique is that, it uses an unique algorithm that automatically minimizes the number of money transactions between the parties involved and shuffles the debt automatically thereby reducing the number of checks to write. There is NO limit on the number of people or the number of transactions you add . And you can specify the respective share (in ANY denomination) of each person (1 part, 2 part and even 1.5 part etc).

Below is a link where you can access the tool

Expense Sharer

Expense Sharer

Following are the basic steps to calculate shared expenses using “Expense Sharer”:

  1. Add names of people you would like to share the expense with.
  2. Add expenses of each person and also indicate the respective share of other person’s involved.
  3. Click on “Expense Report” and you should see who owes how much to whom.
  4. Print the Expense Report and give it your friends who are sharing the expense.
  5. Export the data and save it as a file (by clicking on the “Export” link). You can also send this file to your friends for them to import and view the expense report.
  6. When you visit next time, just import the file (by clicking on the “Import” link) and start from there (or) Start a brand new expense report without importing.

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5 Responses to “Expense Sharer - Simple online tool to calculate shared expenses”


  1. 1 Masoom Apr 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Amazing Effort. Really Appreciate. Just a suggestion if there is an export to excel sheet facility it would be awesome.

    thanks

  2. 2 K May 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    Hi I have a question. if there is 2 people sharing then how much do I put in the share section? 2 or 0.5

  3. 3 Mahin May 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    To explain how to use Expense sharer tool better, consider the following example
    X and two of his friends Y and Z, share a two bed room apartment. X lives in one full bedroom, while Y and Z share the other room.
    Its clear that X has to pay twice that others (Y and Z) pays.
    so while entering the expense

    put 2 for X in share section
    put 1 for Y
    put 1 for Z

    Another scenario:

    if 2 families (X and Y) are going for a picnic.
    X family has 2 adult and 1 kid
    Y family has 2 adults and 2 kids
    to share expense between these 2 families (assuming kids share 0.5 of the share as adults)
    put 2.5 for X in share section ( 1 + 1 + 0.5 )
    put 3 for Y in share section ( 1 + 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 )
    or you can enter each person separately and enter their respective share.

    so in your case if 2 people are sharing equally, then put 1 for each person.

  4. 4 helen davis Aug 15th, 2008 at 3:47 am

    Hello,

    How come when I’m trying to put in £920.00 for 2 people it’s coming up with hash symbols even though the formular looks the same as the other cells. some reason its not liking the numbers 930

    any help as finding this REALLY useful but i’m stuck now as I can’t carry on until this is fixed.

    Thanks again

  5. 5 Mahin Aug 18th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    When I tried to add £920 or £930, the application seems to work fine. Please reproduce this issue using sample data and send me the exported content. If there is an issue I will fix it as soon as possible.

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