On the groundTripSplit Buddy
Type the whole price, not what's left
When a plan actually happens, the app asks what it came to. It wants the whole cost, deposit included — then it works out the rest itself.
The boat happened. Sticks put a deposit down back in July to hold it and logged the whole thing then and there, during a two-week phase of being extremely into his language app, which is why the plan is named in Italian and why nobody including Sticks now knows what it says. The rest got handed over at the dock this morning, and there’s a plan sitting in the app waiting to be told how it went.
Tap It happened — log the cost and the first thing it asks is what the whole thing came to. The whole thing. Not the part you paid today — the price on the side of the boat, deposit and all. The app already knows about the deposit, because a deposit is real money and went into everyone’s balances the day it was paid. It says so under the box.
This is the one worth slowing down for. Put in what’s left to pay and you’ve quietly told the app the trip was cheaper than it was, and the deposit gets counted twice on its way to being wrong.
Underneath, it asks who put money in — and it means today, on the dock, not the deposit. It’ll tell you exactly how much there is still to account for, and it keeps a running figure as you type. Somebody paid nothing? Leave them at nothing.
Confirm stays grayed out until those add up to the remainder exactly. That’s different from a normal expense, where whatever the payers put in simply is the total. Here there’s a number to hit, because the plan already said what it should come to, and a gap means somebody’s contribution hasn’t been typed in yet rather than that the boat changed its mind.
I spent that afternoon on a dock in the sun with a towel thrown over me and nobody thought to move me. It is the closest I have come to a vacation. I have decided to be grateful about it.