On the groundTripSplit Buddy
Almost everything says estimated
It isn't a warning and nothing has gone wrong. It means the dollar figure came from a rate rather than a receipt — and there's one box that settles it.
TripSplit Buddy
Luggy
Suitcase. Been everywhere, seen none of it.
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Forty-one countries. I have seen the inside of most of their airports, the underside of one of their planes, and the wrong carousel in Lisbon for thirty-five minutes. A man in Naples once sat on me for eleven minutes while he argued with his sister on the phone. He did not ask. Nobody asks.
Then you arrive. Somebody opens me up on a bed by a window, takes everything out, and I stand in a corner doing nothing at all for nine days. That's the part. That's why I keep getting back in the car.
I've been on a lot of trips with a lot of groups, which means I've been in the room for every version of the argument. The one about the boat. The one about who had the lobster. The one on the last morning where somebody does the math out loud and gets it wrong twice. I have views on all of it and no say in any of it. I'm not guessing, though. I was there, usually on the floor.
So: these.
- Trips
- More than I'd like
- Weight
- Usually over
- Dropped
- Frequently
- Zipper
- Original
- Best week
- A corner of a room in Puglia, empty, 2019
Settling upTripSplit Buddy
If I look pleased, you're square
There's a picture of me at the top of the Settle screen. It changes depending on whether anybody still owes anybody. That's the whole feature.
On the groundTripSplit Buddy
One bill, two currencies
One of you tapped a card and one of you put euro notes on the table. You can enter both, each in the money it was actually paid in.
Before you goTripSplit Buddy
Signing in
You put your email in, a number arrives, you type the number. That is the whole note.
On the groundTripSplit Buddy
Three things in here say private
An expense, an itinerary leg and a plan can each be locked down, and the three have nothing to do with each other. One is your money, one is your whereabouts, one is whether anybody can find it.
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.
On the groundTripSplit Buddy
What are we doing Wednesday?
There's a whole tab that answers it, laid out as your days. It shows no money at all, on purpose — tap an item if you want to know what that one costs.
On the groundTripSplit Buddy
Yes, that's me. Yes, you can press it.
There are two things on the bar at the bottom and the rest of the app behind the suitcase in the middle. Press the suitcase.
Before you goTripSplit Buddy
Your travel day doesn't need a dinner budget
Your daily figure spreads what's left across the days you have left. That works fine until one of those days is fourteen hours on two planes.