Frequently asked questions

No. Groups are created with a shareable link, and members are identified per-group with magic links. We never require email or a password.

Go to /groups/new, pick a name and default currency, and share the link with whoever's splitting expenses with you. The whole flow takes about 30 seconds.

Open the site in Safari (iOS) or Chrome (Android) and choose 'Add to Home Screen' or 'Install app'. EvenRound is a Progressive Web App - it installs in seconds with no app-store review.

Reading does. The PWA caches the last group you viewed for offline access. Adding new expenses still requires a connection so balances stay consistent across members.

Equal divides the total evenly across selected members. Exact lets you type each person's amount. Shares lets you assign weights (e.g., 2 to one person, 1 to others). Percent splits by percentage. Pick whichever matches the situation.

Yes. Snap the receipt, our AI extracts line items, and you assign each line to who ordered it. Tax and tip are split proportionally. It's the cleanest way to handle mixed-order restaurant bills.

Set up rent, utilities, or subscriptions on a schedule (weekly, monthly, custom RRULE). The expense gets created automatically on schedule and notifies the group. You can edit or skip individual occurrences.

A gift is an expense excluded from balance calculations. Use it for birthday presents, surprise dinners, or anything one person wants to cover without it showing up as 'debt' on someone else's balance.

Their existing shares stay attached to past expenses. They're just excluded from future ones. We don't retroactively rebalance - that'd silently change history.

We use a greedy debt-minimization algorithm: repeatedly settle the largest debtor against the largest creditor. The result is a payment plan with at most n−1 transfers (where n is the number of members with non-zero balances). It's also called 'simplified debts' in some apps.

Click Settle Up on the group page. We show the optimal payment plan. Pay via cash, bank transfer, Stripe, PayPal.me, Venmo, Revolut, or Wise - then mark the transfer paid in-app.

If you've added an email when joining a group, we can send a friendly settle-up reminder once a month with the current plan. Email is always optional.

Yes - open the expense and tap Delete. Balances recalculate immediately. Edits are also tracked in the audit log so the group can see who changed what.

Each group has a default currency. You can record an expense in any currency - at write-time we snapshot the FX rate so balances stay stable even when rates move later.

All ISO-4217 currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CHF, CAD, AUD, BRL, MXN, INR, ZAR, and the rest). Pick whatever the situation needs.

We pull daily mid-market rates from the European Central Bank where available, falling back to OpenExchangeRates for currencies the ECB doesn't cover. The rate used is the one published on the date of the expense.

Yes, from group settings. Past expenses keep their original currencies; future expenses default to the new one. Balances re-display in the new default automatically.

Group data lives in our managed Postgres in the EU (Frankfurt). We never sell data. You can delete a group permanently from its settings page, which cascades to all expenses, members, and shares.

Yes, from the group settings page. Permanent deletion removes the group, every expense, every member record, every share, and every receipt attachment within 24 hours from primary storage and within 30 days from backups.

Either delete the group (which removes everything tied to it) or email legal@evenround.com with a deletion request. We confirm in writing and complete deletion within 30 days, in line with GDPR.

Open core is on the roadmap - we plan to publish the settlement engine, the FX engine, and the schemas under MIT. The hosted product remains a service. We'll announce on the blog when the first repo is public.

Strictly necessary cookies only - to remember your locale, preferred currency, and to keep you signed into a group via magic-link tokens. No tracking or analytics cookies that require consent under GDPR.

CSV import from common splitters is on the roadmap. For now you can manually re-create the group and add the most recent unsettled expenses - the comparison pages walk you through it for each app.

Open group settings, choose Export, and pick CSV or PDF. CSV gives you raw rows with categories and FX rates; PDF gives you a print-ready expense report.

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