Group trips
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Expenses on a group trip

Six people, two weeks, four currencies and one person who fronted the apartment. A trip is the hardest thing a splitting app has to do, and the place a spreadsheet gives up.

AnaTokyo, Marchyou owe $67.00
SamFlat 3Bowes you $24.50
MiaTokyo, Marchsettled

Everyone can add, nobody has to install

Send one link to the group chat. Each person taps it, types their name and starts adding — no download, no account, no email. The people who never get round to installing anything are the reason trip ledgers end up with one person doing all the entry.

How do you split expenses in multiple currencies?

Enter an expense in whatever you actually spent. The rate is fetched the day you enter it and frozen to that expense for good, so the trip total does not quietly change while you are still on it.

Does it work offline, with no signal?

Open it from closed, on a plane, with no signal — not just keep it open. What you add syncs exactly once when you land

How do you split a restaurant bill by item?

Photograph the bill once. Everyone taps what they had — the people who shared the wine tap the wine — and the service and the tax are shared in proportion to what each person claimed. Nothing reaches the balances until every line has somebody against it, so the total on the bill is the total that gets split.

The person who scanned it sends the link. Anybody can claim from it, including the ones who never installed anything.

How the scanning works

Tap what you had
Lobster linguineclaimed by A24.00
Margheritaclaimed by S11.00
2× negroniclaimed by A S18.00
Tiramisunobody yet9.50
Service, shared in proportion9.25
Ana35.60
Sam26.15

Nothing reaches the balances until every line has somebody against it.

Everybody taps their own lines; the extras follow them.

How does a group settle up at the end of a trip?

Six people owing each other in every direction becomes the fewest payments that clear it — or the raw who-owes-whom list if you would rather see that. Both are one tap, and both show their working.

What the receipt looks like

What if somebody disputes what they owe?

Open the receipt between the two of you and ask for a reading. It goes through the expenses line by line and says what it would leave out and why — a deposit that came back, a dinner one of you was not at — with the figure both ways. It proposes; the two of you decide, and the change is an ordinary edit either of you can make.

What a reading looks like

The trip, afterwards

When it is over, the group can look back at it: where the money went by category, what it came to week by week, who paid first most often. Balances are nobody else’s business and never appear in it.

What a group’s Wrapped shows

Questions about splitting trip costs

How do you split expenses on a group trip?

Make a group, send one link to the group chat, and everybody adds what they paid — no account and no download needed. Tabrillo keeps a running balance for each person and, at the end, proposes the fewest payments that clear everything.

How do you handle several currencies on one trip?

Enter each expense in the currency you actually paid. The rate is fetched the day you enter it and frozen to that expense for good, so the trip total does not drift while you are still travelling.

Can you add expenses with no signal?

Yes. Entering, editing and reading balances all work offline; what you enter is queued on the device and sent exactly once when the connection comes back, so nothing is entered twice.

How do you split a restaurant bill when people had different things?

Photograph the bill once and open it for claiming. Everybody taps the lines they had, and the service and the tax are shared in proportion to what each person claimed. Nothing reaches the balances until every line has somebody against it.

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