Hi Chris, I am in a similar situation. I have created two additional buckets for this: A "Credit" expense bucket and a "Reimbursements" income bucket. When I go grocery shopping with my flatmate or pay the internet bill, I create a split. For example, our internet bill is $40 is gets deducted from my credit card. Thus, I create a new transaction with $40 on my credit card but I split it so that $20 are counted against my "Internet" expense bucket and $20 are counted against my "Credit" bucket (because I did not spend the latter $20 on internet but rather gave them as credit to my roommate). Since I don't have a spending plan for "Credit", the bucket will be overspent. I will fill up the bucket with a money flow from the "Reimbursements" bucket (which is probably overspent now). When my flatmate pays me the $20 in cash, I create a $20 transaction on my Cash Account and put it into the "Reimbursements" bucket. When all debt is paid, both "Credit" and "Reimbursements" are zero – before that, the "Reimbursements" bucket shows me how much money I am still waiting for.
Things can get tricker when I am not getting paid directly by cash for every single item. For example, my flatmate might pay the next grocery trip which might come to approx. $40 as well. Then I usually create two cash transactions with one in the "Reimbursements" bucket and one from my "Groceries" bucket (i.e., I pretend to have handled cash which I in fact never really got or spent, but the cash account balance and the bucket cash flows are correct in the end). Hope that helps, Christian On Oct 27, 7:13 pm, Chris C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > We have 3 people sharing expenses, and I have problems to fit > Moneywell for the workflow. The problem is, we pay for shared things > first, and then pay/get back the differences between how much you paid > and you should have paid (eg if I pay $30 for Groceries, then I get > $20 back from housemates) at the end of every fortnight. > > Let's say we have 3 categories: Groceries, Petrol and Internet, and I > paid $30 for each (ie $90 in total) and I should have paid $10 for > each category (ie $30 in total). I'm not sure how to setup the money > flow so that by the end of fortnight, I can put back the difference > ($60) and allocate $10 to all 3 categories as expense? > > Thanks, > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
