Rent and bills
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Rent, bills and the weekly shop

Set the rent to repeat and it enters itself every month. Split the bills how you actually split them — by shares when the rooms differ, exactly when the bill says so — and see where the flat’s money went, by category, whenever somebody asks.

Rent that enters itself

Set an expense to repeat and it appears on schedule, split the way you set it. Change the amount when the rent changes; past months keep what they were, because the ledger records what happened rather than what is true today.

RentMonthly on the 1st · split 3 ways1,650.00
BroadbandMonthly on the 8th · split 3 ways42.00
Weekly shopYou paid · split 3 ways88.40

A trip ends. A flat does not. What matters at home is that the same charges arrive every month and nobody wants to re-enter them.

How do you split rent when the rooms are different sizes?

The big room pays more. One person is away for August. Somebody does not drink. Split by shares, by exact amounts, by percentage or evenly — per expense, not per group, because the shopping and the rent are not the same problem.

Where is the flat’s money actually going?

Rent, then groceries, then the bills nobody thinks about. The breakdown is the group’s own expenses by category, largest first, with what it came to week by week beside it — so a month that felt expensive can be checked rather than argued about.

Across every group you are in, the same question has a second answer: what YOUR share came to, wherever you spent it. And searching the words finds the expense, in whichever flat or trip it was.

Where it went · last 3 months
Rent1,650.00
Groceries412.85
Utilities286.40
Internet55.00
Other120.00

2,524.25 across 34 expenses. 120.00 of this is uncategorised.

The group’s spending by category, over the last three months.

Can you move an expense to another group?

The dinner that belonged to the trip, entered into the flat. Move it: it leaves this group’s balances and counts in the other one, and both keep the history — this group records that it went, the other that it arrived, and neither pretends it was never here.

What happens when a flatmate moves out?

A departing flatmate keeps their balance and their history. Nothing is deleted, the old expenses stay editable, and what they owed is still there to settle.

And it can still be questioned

How do you remind a flatmate they owe you?

A reminder you send yourself, in the words you would use — Tabrillo writes the draft and never sends anything for you. It says what is owed and does not say what anybody did.

Questions about splitting rent and bills

How do you split rent between flatmates fairly?

Split by shares when the rooms differ — two shares for the big room, one for the small — or by exact amounts when the tenancy says what each person pays. The method is set per expense, so the rent and the shopping do not have to use the same one.

Can rent be entered automatically every month?

Yes. Set it to repeat weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly, and each occurrence arrives as an ordinary expense that anybody can edit or delete.

What happens to the balance when a flatmate moves out?

They keep their balance and their history. Nothing is deleted, the old expenses stay editable, and what they owed is still there to settle.

Can you see what a flatshare spends its money on?

Yes — the group’s expenses by category, largest first, and what it came to week by week. Anything with no category yet is a bar of its own with the amount, and one tap opens those expenses to sort them.

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