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Feature Request | Cross-Project, Person-Based balances #281
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Perhaps these meta-payments could be implemented as a series of transactions, one in every group shared by the two parties (Jolly and Akshay in this case). They would look like any other transaction but would all have some title such as "Jolly and Akshay settle up" perhaps with some ID number to connect all the piecemeal transactions. |
This is precisely how Splitwise does it. |
i also highly long for this feature. i don't think that the users of various groups are linkable between projects (only if they are nextcloud users), but it might be sufficient to just use the case-insensitive name as an identifier. just make sure to not have friends with the same name or at least name them differently ;) |
There could be two ways to approach this:
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hey exactly currently it only sums up the total the current user ows EVERYONE across EVERY projects. this is already very handy to manage your deps. e.g. we have often 4-5 projects with different people and my girlfriend is often suprised how much she actually ows in total ;) so it is merely just an indicator for your depts and the actual repayments must be done per project basis as it is. but you are absolutely right that this is the first version and i think later on one could click on the total amount and then come to a page where you will see the second part(red) in more detail per person. unfortunately i wasn't able yet to do this as i wasn't completely sure how to set it up. do you think this first version could nevertheless be released already? btw: in the screenshot above there was also a second project "test" where admin owed money. i should have included that as well. |
Oh for sure. My SO has the exact same issue and I think this is an excellent start!
Conceptually, I don't see why not. Things don't need to be 100% feature complete when you release them! Once this is up, people can test it and then who knows, maybe someone else has more or better ideas than I do and there's better feedback 😄 From a coding persepctive, I'm not knowledgable enough to know whether or not there's something specific that would be required for your next idea:
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Context
Cospend (and 99.9% of all expense-splitting platforms) currently calculate balances within groups / projects / bubbles / whatever else they call it. However, it's entirely possible that there is an overlap between the members of several groups / projects. In such a scenario, being able to calculate balances between people across / regardless of projects would make it significantly easier for users to have an overview of their debts.
Example
I have the following situation:
So now, we have multiple people who may or may not be part of a group, and multiple people who are a part of multiple groups. In Cospend, I would need to set up at least 4 groups:
Instead, if balances can be calculated across groups, we have a situation like this:
This is literally the one single thing that is keeping me from migrating to Cospend and fully ditching Splitwise for good. My Nextcloud instance is all set up; I despise Splitwise and the direction they have gone in, but person-based balances are indispensible for me because of the number of friends that share various groups. I sincerely hope that something like that can indeed be implemented in Cospend! There are literally NO other platforms that offer this at all right now.
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